Readers Digest Worlds Best Reading for the Term of His Natural Life

First in 1982, Reader's Digest began publishing annual volumes of the "best reading" series. Selecting from fiction classics heavily from the 19th and 20th centuries, Reader's Assimilate has produced decorative volumes including custom artwork and author biographies with increasing frequency moving to bi-monthly editions in 1984. Since 1995, new editions have appeared intermittently, with none released in the years 1996, 2000, or 2001. Other years accept averaged about 5 new volumes. In detail, this series is a difficult one to keep up with, given the method of its release. That said, below is a most comprehensive listing of the volumes in the series.

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  A Journey to the Heart of the Earth exterior

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  The Caine Mutiny exterior

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  The Arabian Nights exterior

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  A Journey to the Centre of the Earth chapter artwork

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  Affiliate artwork in The Caine Mutiny

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  Decorative affiliate lettering in The Arabian Nights

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  A Journey to the Center of the Earth title folio artwork

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  Artwork in The Arabian Nights

1. The Cherry Badge of Backbone, Stephen Crane
2. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
3. The Concluding of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
4. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
6. A Tale of Ii Cities, Charles Dickens
7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtroom, Mark Twain
8. The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
10. The House of the 7 Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
12. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
13. Groovy Expectations, Charles Dickens
14. The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London
15. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Marking Twain
17. Tales of Suspense, Edgar Allan Poe
18. Report in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
19. Silas Marner, George Eliot
20. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
21. The Fable of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Washington Irving
22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
23. For the Term of His Natural Life, Marcus Clarke
24. The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories, O. Henry
25. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
26. Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
27. Treasure Isle, Robert Louis Stevenson
28. The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
29. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
30. Around the Earth in 80 Days, Jules Verne
31. A Christmas Ballad and Other Stories, Charles Dickens
32. The Prince and the Pauper, Marker Twain
33. The Virginian, Owen Wister
34. A Passage to India, Due east.M. Forster
35. The Bounding main-Wolf, Jack London
36. The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
37. Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
39. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
40. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
41. Twenty M Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
42. On Our Option and Our New Selection, Steele Rudd
43. Lost Horizon, James Hilton
44. The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
45. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
46. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
47. Tales from the Arabian Nights
48. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
49. Uncle Tom's Motel, Harriet Beecher Stowe
50. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
51. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
52. The Adventures of Robin Hood, Paul Creswick
53. A Journey to the Middle of the World, Jules Verne
54. The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories, Mark Twain
55. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace
56. The Practiced Earth, Pearl S. Buck
57. The Caine Wildcat, Herman Wouk
58. Anne of the Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
59. The Current of air in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
60. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
61. Dusty and Man Shy, Frank Dalby Davison
62. Life with Father, Clarence Day
63. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
64. To Impale a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
65. The Robe, Lloyd Cassell Douglas
66. The Heart of the West, O. Henry
67. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
68. The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, John Buchan
69. Emma, Jane Austen
70. To Build a Fire and Other Stories, Jack London
71. King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
72. Captains Mettlesome, Rudyard Kipling
73. Roughing It, Mark Twain
74. Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore
75. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
76. Tales of the Southward Pacific, James Michener
77. Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
78. Young man Geste, Percival Christopher Wren
79. The Main of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale, Robert Louis Stevenson
80. Goodbye Mr. Chips and Other Stories, James Hilton (1995)
81. Lost Horizon, Skillful-bye Mr. Fries and Other Stories, James Hilton (1997)
82. The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
83. How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
84. Iii Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome
85. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
86. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
87. Far From the Maddening Oversupply, Thomas Hardy
88. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
89. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
90. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
91. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
92. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
93. (10 book set of previous editions)
94. (3 book gear up of previous editions)
95. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
96. My Antonia, Willa Cather
97. The Invisible Human being and The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
98. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
99. The Moon and Sixpence, W.South. Maugham
100. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
101. Daisy Miller and The Plow of the Screw, Henry James
102. The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
103. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
104. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
105. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
106. (3 book gear up of previous editions)
107. The War of the Worlds and The Fourth dimension Machine, H.Grand. Wells
108. Lilliputian Men, Louisa May Alcott
109. The Man of Belongings, John Galsworthy
110. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
111. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
112. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
113. The American, Henry James
114. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
115. Persuasions, Jane Austen
116. The Movie of Dorian Greyness, Oscar Wilde
117. The Blackness Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
118. Dracula, Bram Stoker
119. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
120. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
121. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
122. The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, Anthony Hope
123. The Ambassadors, Henry James
124. Center of Darkness and End of the Tether, Joseph Conrad
125. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
126. Howards End, Eastward.M. Forster
127. The Conviction-Man, Herman Melville
128. Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
129. The Hush-hush Garden and A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
130. Ethan Frome and Summer, Edith Wharton
131. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
132. Where Angels Fright to Tread and A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
133. Adam Bede, George Eliot
134. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
135. Jo'southward Boys, Louisa May Alcott
136. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
137. Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
138. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
139. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
140. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
141. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Marker Twain
142. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
143. A Tale of Ii Cities, Charles Dickens
144. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
145. The Jungle, Upon Sinclair
146. The Written report in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (echo)
147. Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
148. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
149. The War of the Worlds, The Fourth dimension Machine, H.M. Wells
150. Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott
151. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
152. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
153. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore

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