World's Best Reading

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World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Readers Digest beginning in 1982. The series is distributed as a mail order membership club. In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Readers Digest website. The series began with single annual volumes in 1982 and 1983, then expanded to bi-monthly editions for years 1984-1995, and is published approximately every six weeks. The series is still in print. Many of the editions are ornately illustrated and included specially commissioned artwork. Each volume includes a small paper pamphlet with a biography of the author.

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No. Title Author Date ISBN Notes
001 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1982 ISBN 0895771551 [1]
002 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 1983 ISBN 0895771594 [1]
003 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1984 ISBN 0895771993 [1]
004 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 1984 ISBN 0895772000 [1]
005 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1984 ISBN 0895771985 [1]
006 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1984 ISBN 0895771799 [1]
007 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1984 ISBN 0895771853 [1]
008 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1984 ISBN 0895771845 [1]
009 Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1985 ISBN 0895772159 [1]
010 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1985 ISBN 0895772191 [1]
011 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1985 ISBN 0895772094 [1]
012 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1985 ISBN 0895772175 [1]
013 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1985 ISBN 0895772051 [1]
014 The Call of the Wild and White Fang Jack London 1985 ISBN 0895772116 [1]
015 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1986 ISBN 0895772329 [1]
016 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1986 ISBN 0895772523 [1]
017 Tales of Suspense Edgar Allan Poe 1986 ISBN 0895772256 [1]
018 Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1986 ISBN 089577254X [1]
019 Silas Marner George Eliot 1986 ISBN 0895772485 [1]
020 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1986 ISBN 089577223X [1]
021 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales Washington Irving 1987 ISBN 0895772558 [1]
022 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1987 ISBN 0895772779 [1]
023 For the Term of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke 1987 ISBN 0864380488 AUS only
024 The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories O. Henry 1987 ISBN 0895772663 [1]
025 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1987 ISBN 0895772582 [1]
026 Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1987 ISBN 0895772752 [1]
027 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1987 ISBN 0895772620 [1]
028 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1988 ISBN 0895772922 [1]
029 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1988 ISBN 0895773201 [1]
030 Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne 1988 ISBN 0895772949 [1]
031 A Christmas Carol and Other Stories Charles Dickens 1988 ISBN 0895773155 [1]
032 The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1988 ISBN 0895772957 [1]
033 The Virginian Owen Wister 1988 ISBN 0895773058 [1]
034 A Passage to India E.M. Forster 1989 ISBN 0895773341 [1]
035 The Sea-Wolf Jack London 1989 ISBN 0895773384 [1]
036 The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1989 ISBN 0895773376 [1]
037 Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1989 ISBN 0895773325 [1]
038 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1989 ISBN 0895773287 [1]
039 Moby Dick Herman Melville 1989 ISBN 0895773228 [1]
040 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1990 ISBN 0895773430 [1]
041 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1990 ISBN 0895773473 [1]
042 On Our Selection and Our New Selection Steele Rudd 1990 ISBN 0864381344 AUS only
043 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1990 ISBN 0895773619 [1]
044 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1990 ISBN 0895773392 [1]
045 O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1990 ISBN 0895773546 [1]
046 Doctor Zhivago Boris Leonidovich Pasternak 1990 ISBN 0895773422 [1]
047 Tales from the Arabian Nights 1991 ISBN 0895773740 [1]
048 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1991 ISBN 0895773872 [1]
049 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1991 ISBN 0895773678 [1]
050 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1991 ISBN 0895773848 [1]
051 The Return of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1991 ISBN 0895774011 [1]
052 The Adventures of Robin Hood Paul Creswick 1991 ISBN 0895773902 [1]
053 A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1992 ISBN 089577402X [1]
054 The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories Mark Twain 1992 ISBN 0895774151 [1]
055 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lew Wallace 1992 ISBN 0895774038 [1]
056 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1992 ISBN 0895774135 [1]
057 The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk 1992 ISBN 0895774143 [1]
058 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1992 ISBN 0895774348 [1]
059 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1993 UK only
060 The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1993 ISBN 0895775522 [1]
061 Dusty and Man Shy Frank Dalby Davison 1993 ISBN 0864383819 AUS only[1]
062 Life with Father Clarence Day 1993 ISBN 0895774941 [1]
063 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1993 ISBN 0895774364 [1]
064 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1993 ISBN 0895774356 [1]
065 The Robe Lloyd Cassell Douglas 1993 ISBN 0895775476 [1]
066 Heart of the West O. Henry 1993 ISBN 0895774941 [1]
067 Rebecca (novel) Daphne du Maurier 1994 ISBN 0895776278 [1]
068 The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle John Buchan 1994 UK only
069 Emma Jane Austen 1994 ISBN 0895775824 [1]
070 To Build a Fire and Other Stories Jack London 1994 ISBN 0895775832 [1]
071 King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard 1994 ISBN 0895775530 [1]
072 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1994 ISBN 0895776014 [1]
073 Roughing It Mark Twain 1994 ISBN 0895776286 [1]
074 Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1995 UK SA only
075 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 1995 UK SA only
076 Tales of the South Pacific James Michener 1995 ISBN 0895776979 [1]
077 Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana, Jr. 1995 ISBN 0895776316 [1]
078 Beau Geste Percival Christopher Wren 1995 ISBN 0895776324 [2]
079 The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale Robert Louis Stevenson 1995 ISBN 0895776294 [1]
080 Goodbye Mr. Chips and Other Stories James Hilton 1995 ISBN 0895776308 [1]
081 Lost Horizon, Good-bye Mr. Chips and Other Stories James Hilton 1997 UK SA only
082 The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling 1997 UK SA only, Illust
083 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1997 UK SA only
084 Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1998 UK only
085 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 1999
086 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1999 UK only
087 Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 2002
088 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 2003
089 This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003 ISBN 0743247299 [1]
090 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 2003
091 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 2003
092 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 2003
093 ***Ten Book Set - Already in Collection*** 2004
094 ***Three Book Set - Already in Collection*** 2004
095 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 2004
096 My Antonia Willa Cather 2004 ISBN 1414212186 [1]
097 The Invisible Man and The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells 2004
098 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 2004
099 The Moon and Sixpence W. S. Maugham 2004
100 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2004
101 Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw Henry James 2005
102 The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling 2005
103 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 2005
104 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 2005
105 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 2005
106 ***Three Book Set - Already in Collection*** 2005
107 The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine H. G. Wells 2005
108 Little Men Louisa May Alcott 2006
109 The Man of Property John Galsworthy 2006
110 Hard Times Charles Dickens 2006
111 Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 2006
112 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 2006
113 The American Henry James 2007
114 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 2007
115 Persuasion Jane Austen 2007
116 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 2007
117 The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 2007
118 Dracula Bram Stoker 2007
119 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 2008
120 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 2008
121 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 2008
122 The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 2008
123 The Ambassadors Henry James 2008
124 Heart of Darkness and End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2008
125 Agnes Grey Anne Brontë 2009
126 Howards End E. M. Forster 2009
127 The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 2009
128 Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 2009
129 The Secret Garden and A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 2009
130 Ethan Frome and Summer Edith Wharton 2009
131 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 2010
132 Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room With a View E. M. Forster 2010
133 Adam Bede George Eliot 2010
134 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 2010 ISBN 9780276446511
135 Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott 2010
136 The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 2010
137 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 2011
138 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 2011
139 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 2011
140 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 2011
141 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 2011
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