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'''''World's Best Reading''''' is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982.  The series is distributed as a [[Finance:Mail order|mail order]] membership club.  In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Reader's 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.
== Bibliography ==

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!No.!!Title!!Author!!Date!!ISBN!!Notes
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| 001||''The Red Badge of Courage''||Stephen Crane||1982||{{ISBN|0-89577-155-1}}||<ref name="amazon">Publication information from Amazon.com</ref> 1982/1983/1984 (US) 2000(UK)<ref name="Abebookes">{{cite web|title=Abebooks|url=http://www.abebooks.com|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> 
|-
| 002||''Wuthering Heights''||Emily Brontë||1983||{{ISBN|0-89577-159-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1982/1985(US) 1982/1985(AUS) 1990(UK) 2010(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 003||''The Last of the Mohicans''||James Fenimore Cooper||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-199-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984(US) 1994/2002(UK) 1995(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 004||''Jane Eyre''||Charlotte Brontë||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-200-0}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984/1998(US) 1991/2001(UK) 1998/2000(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 005||''Pride and Prejudice''||Jane Austen||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-198-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984/1986(US) 1991(UK) 1998 (AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 006||''A Tale of Two Cities''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-179-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984/1993/2011(US) 1993/1994/2001/2003/2012(UK) 1985/1999/2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 007||''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''||Mark Twain||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-185-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 008||''The Scarlet Letter''||Nathaniel Hawthorne||1984||{{ISBN|0-89577-184-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1984/1990/2011(US) 1990(AUS) 1990 (CAN) 2012 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 009||''Tess of the D'Urbervilles''||Thomas Hardy||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-215-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1985(US) 1991/2002(UK) 2002(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 010||''The House of the Seven Gables''||Nathaniel Hawthorne||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-219-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1985(US) 1996(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 011||''Little Women''||Louisa May Alcott||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-209-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1985(US) 1992/2000 (UK) 1995/2000(AUS) <ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 012||''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''||Mark Twain||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-217-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1980/1985/1986/1990 (US) 1992/2003 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 013||''Great Expectations''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-205-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1985(US) 1990/1994/2002(UK) 1991/2000(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 014||''The Call of the Wild'' and ''White Fang''||Jack London||1985||{{ISBN|0-89577-211-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1985 (US) 1991/2001 (UK) 2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 015||''Kidnapped''||Robert Louis Stevenson||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-232-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986/1991(US) 1990(UK) 2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 016||''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''||Mark Twain||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-252-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986(US) 1991(UK) 2011 (US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 017||''Tales of Suspense''||[[Biography:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe]]||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-225-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986(US) 1992/2001(UK) <ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 018||''A Study in Scarlet'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-254-X}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986(US) 1990/1991(UK) 1998(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 019||''Silas Marner''||[[Biography:George Eliot|George Eliot]]||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-248-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986(US) 1993/2003(UK) 2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 020||''David Copperfield''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1986||{{ISBN|0-89577-223-X}} ||<ref name="amazon"/> 1986(US) 1996(UK) 1986(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 021||''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales''||Washington Irving||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-255-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987 (US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 022||''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-277-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987(US) 1992/2001 (UK) 2001 (AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 023||''For the Term of His Natural Life''||Marcus Clarke||1987||{{ISBN|0-86438-048-8}}||1987(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 024||''The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories''||O. Henry||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-266-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987(US) 1993(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 025||''Oliver Twist''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-258-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987(US) 1992(UK) 1998/2002(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 026||''Life on the Mississippi''||Mark Twain||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-275-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 027||''Treasure Island''||Robert Louis Stevenson||1987||{{ISBN|0-89577-262-0}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1987(US) 1987/1992(UK) 1998(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 028||''The Old Curiosity Shop''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-292-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988(US) 1988(AUS) 1997(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 029||''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-320-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 030||''Around the World in 80 Days''||Jules Verne||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-294-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988/1992(US) 1990/2001(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 031||''A Christmas Carol and Other Stories''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-315-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988(US) 1994(UK) 2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 032||''The Prince and the Pauper''||Mark Twain||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-295-7}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988(US) 1999(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 033||''The Virginian''||Owen Wister||1988||{{ISBN|0-89577-305-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 034||''A Passage to India''||E.M. Forster||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-334-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US) 1989(AUS) 1998(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 035||''The Sea-Wolf''||Jack London||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-338-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US) 1993(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 036||''The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems''||Henry Wadsworth Longfellow||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-337-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 037||''Twice-Told Tales'' (contains 27 of the 36 tales in the original two-volume set)||Nathaniel Hawthorne||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-332-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US) 2000/2004(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 038||''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''||Betty Smith||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-328-7}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US) 1999(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 039||''Moby Dick''||[[Biography:Herman Melville|Herman Melville]]||1989||{{ISBN|0-89577-322-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1989(US) 1996(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 040||''Kim''||Rudyard Kipling||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-343-0}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1988/1990(US) 1994(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 041||''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea''||Jules Verne||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-347-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(US) 1993(UK) 1990(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 042||''On Our Selection'' and ''Our New Selection''||Steele Rudd||1990||{{ISBN|0-86438-134-4}}||1990(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 043||''Lost Horizon''||James Hilton||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-361-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 044||''The Innocents Abroad''||Mark Twain||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-339-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(US) 1991(CAN)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 045||''O Pioneers!''||Willa Cather||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-354-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 046||''Doctor Zhivago''||Boris Leonidovich Pasternak||1990||{{ISBN|0-89577-342-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(US) 1998(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 047||''Tales from the Arabian Nights''||||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-374-0}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 048||''The Grapes of Wrath''||[[Biography:John Steinbeck|John Steinbeck]]||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-387-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991(US) 1994(UK) 1992(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 049||''Uncle Tom's Cabin''||Harriet Beecher Stowe||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-367-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991(US) 1995(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 050||''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''||Robert Louis Stevenson||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-384-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991(US) 1997(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 051||''The Return of Sherlock Holmes''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-401-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991(US) 1992(AUS) 1995/1996/2001 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 052||''The Adventures of Robin Hood''||Paul Creswick||1991||{{ISBN|0-89577-390-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1991 (US) 1992 (AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 053||''A Journey to the Center of the Earth''||Jules Verne||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-402-X}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1990(CAN) 1992(US) 1995(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 054||''The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories''||Mark Twain||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-415-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1992(US/UK) 1993(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 055||''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ''||Lew Wallace||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-403-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1992(US) 1998 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 056||''The Good Earth''||[[Biography:Pearl S. Buck|Pearl S. Buck]]||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-413-5}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1992(US) 1993(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 057||''The Caine Mutiny''||Herman Wouk||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-414-3}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1992(US) 1993 (AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 058||''Anne of Green Gables''||L. M. Montgomery||1992||{{ISBN|0-89577-434-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1992 (US) 1993 (AUS) 1994 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 059||''The Wind in the Willows''||Kenneth Grahame||1993||||1993(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 060||''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-552-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US) 2005(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 061||''Dusty'' and ''Man Shy''||Frank Dalby Davison||1993||{{ISBN|0-86438-381-9}}||1993(AUS) <ref name="amazon"/><ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 062||''Life with Father''||Clarence Day||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-494-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US) 1994(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 063||''The Yearling''||Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-436-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US) 1994(AUS) 1998(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 064||''To Kill a Mockingbird''||Harper Lee||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-435-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US) 1999(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 065||''The Robe''||Lloyd Cassell Douglas||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-547-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 066||''Heart of the West''||O. Henry||1993||{{ISBN|0-89577-494-1}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1993(US) 1993 (CAN) 1994(AUS) <ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 067||''Rebecca''||Daphne du Maurier||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-627-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US) 1997(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 068||''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' and ''Greenmantle''||John Buchan||1994||||1994(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/>(Also part of the Impress Best Mystery series)<br />
|-
| 069||''Emma''||Jane Austen||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-582-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US) 1996/2003(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 070||''To Build a Fire and Other Stories''||Jack London||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-583-2}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US) 1998(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 071||''King Solomon's Mines''||H. Rider Haggard||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-553-0}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US) 1996(UK) 1994/1999(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 072||''Captains Courageous''||Rudyard Kipling||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-601-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US) 2000(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 073||''Roughing It''||Mark Twain||1994||{{ISBN|0-89577-628-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1994(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 074||''Lorna Doone''||R. D. Blackmore||1995||||1995(UK/SA) 2013(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 075||''A Town Like Alice''||Nevil Shute||1995||||1995(UK/SA)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 076||''Tales of the South Pacific''||James Michener||1995||{{ISBN|0-89577-697-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1995(US) 2000(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 077||''Two Years Before the Mast''||Richard Henry Dana Jr.||1995||{{ISBN|0-89577-631-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1995(US) 2000(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 078||''Beau Geste''||Percival Christopher Wren||1995||{{ISBN|0-89577-632-4}}||<ref name="book">Publication information from book.  Amazon.com does not have this ISBN in their database.</ref> 1994(UK) 1995(US) 2000(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 079||''The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale''||Robert Louis Stevenson||1995||{{ISBN|0-89577-629-4}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1995(US) 1995(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 080||''Goodbye Mr. Chips and Other Stories''||James Hilton||1995||{{ISBN|0-89577-630-8}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 1995(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 081||''Lost Horizon, Good-bye Mr. Chips and Other Stories''||James Hilton||1997||||1997(UK/SA)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 082||''The Jungle Books''||Rudyard Kipling||1997||||1997(UK/SA), Illust <ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 083||''How Green Was My Valley''||Richard Llewellyn||1997||||1997(UK/SA)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 084||''Three Men in a Boat'' and ''Three Men on the Bummel''||[[Biography:Jerome K. Jerome|Jerome K. Jerome]]||1998||||1998(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 085||''The Three Musketeers''||Alexandre Dumas||1999||Verified existence - No ISBN<nowiki/>||1999(US) 1999(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 086||''The Mayor of Casterbridge''||Thomas Hardy||1999||||1999(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 087||''Far From the Madding Crowd''||Thomas Hardy||2002|||| 1999(UK) 2002(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 088||''The Age of Innocence''||Edith Wharton||2003||{{ISBN|1122049161}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 2003(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 089||''This Side of Paradise''||F. Scott Fitzgerald||2003||{{ISBN|0-7432-4729-9}}||<ref name="amazon"/>  2003(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 090||''Frankenstein''||Mary Shelley||2003||||2003(US) 2004(UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 091||''Sense and Sensibility''||Jane Austen||2003||||2003(UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 092||''Lord Jim''||Joseph Conrad||2003||||2003(US)<ref name=book /> 
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| 093||***Ten Book Set - Already in Collection***||||2004||||
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| 094||***Three Book Set - Already in Collection***||||2004||||
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| 095||''Robinson Crusoe''||Daniel Defoe||2004||Verified existence - No ISBN<nowiki/>||2005(US)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 096||''My Antonia''||Willa Cather||2004||{{ISBN|1-4142-1218-6}}||<ref name="amazon"/> 2004(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 097||''The Invisible Man'' and ''The Island of Dr. Moreau''||[[Biography:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells]]||2004||||2004(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 098||''Gulliver's Travels''||Jonathan Swift||2004||||2004(UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 099||''The Moon and Sixpence''||W. S. Maugham||2004||||2004(US)<ref name=book /> 
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| 100||''Main Street''||[[Biography:Sinclair Lewis|Sinclair Lewis]]||2004||||2004(US)<ref name=book /> 
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| 101||''Daisy Miller'' and ''The Turn of the Screw''||Henry James||2005||||2005(US) 2005(UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 102||''The Jungle Books''||Rudyard Kipling||2005||||2005(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 103||''Madame Bovary''||Gustave Flaubert||2005||||2005(US) 2005(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 104||''Mansfield Park''||Jane Austen||2005||||2005(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 105||''The Magnificent Ambersons''||Booth Tarkington||2005||||2005(US)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 106||***Three Book Set - Already in Collection***||||2005||||
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| 107||''The War of the Worlds'' and ''The Time Machine''||[[Biography:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells]]||2005||||2005(US)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 108||''Little Men''||Louisa May Alcott||2006||||2006(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 109||''The Man of Property''||John Galsworthy||2006||||2006(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 110||''Hard Times''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||2006||||2006(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 111||''Barchester Towers''||[[Biography:Anthony Trollope|Anthony Trollope]]||2006||||2006(US)<ref name=book /> 
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| 112||''Moll Flanders''||Daniel Defoe||2006||||2006(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 113||''The American''||Henry James||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 114||''The Phantom of the Opera''||Gaston Leroux||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 115||''Persuasion''||Jane Austen||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 116||''The Picture of Dorian Gray''||[[Biography:Oscar Wilde|Oscar Wilde]]||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 117||''The Black Arrow''||Robert Louis Stevenson||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
|-
| 118||''[[Biology:Dracula|Dracula]]''||[[Biography:Bram Stoker|Bram Stoker]]||2007||||2007(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 119||''Sons and Lovers''||D. H. Lawrence||2008||||2008(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 120||''Northanger Abbey''||Jane Austen||2008||||2008(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 121||''The House of Mirth''||Edith Wharton||2008||||2008(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 122||''The Prisoner of Zenda'' and ''Rupert of Hentzau''||Anthony Hope||2008||ISSN 1544-4449
|2008(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 123||''The Ambassadors''||Henry James||2008||||2008(US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/> 
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| 124||''Heart of Darkness'' and ''End of the Tether''||Joseph Conrad||2008||||2008(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 125||''Agnes Grey''||Anne Brontë||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 126||''Howards End''||E. M. Forster||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
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| 127||''The Confidence-Man''||[[Biography:Herman Melville|Herman Melville]]||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book />
|-
| 128||''Return of the Native''||Thomas Hardy||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book />
|-
| 129||''The Secret Garden'' and ''A Little Princess''||Frances Hodgson Burnett||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book />
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| 130||''Ethan Frome'' and ''Summer''||Edith Wharton||2009||||2009(US/UK)<ref name=book />
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| 131||''Fathers and Sons''||Ivan Turgenev||2010||||2010(US/UK)<ref name=book />
|-
| 132||''Where Angels Fear to Tread'' and ''A Room With a View''||E. M. Forster||2010||||2010(US/UK)<ref name=book />
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| 133||''Adam Bede''||[[Biography:George Eliot|George Eliot]]||2010||||2010(US/UK)<ref name=book />
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| 134||''Wuthering Heights''||Emily Brontë||2010||||1982/1985(US) 1982/1985(AUS) 1990(UK) 2010(US/UK)VDL 2010 (US/UK) <ref name="Abebookes"/>
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| 135||''Jo's Boys''||Louisa May Alcott||2010||||2010(US/UK)VDL 2011 <ref name=amazon /> 
|-
| 136||''The Way of All Flesh''||Samuel Butler||2010||||2010(US/UK)<ref name=amazon /> 
|-
| 137||''Treasure Island'' / ''Kidnapped''||Robert Louis Stevenson||2010||{{ISBN|0276446585}}||VDL 2010 (US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 138||''Oliver Twist''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||2010||{{ISBN|9780276446597}}||VDL 2010 (US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 139||''Pride & Prejudice''||Jane Austen||2011||{{ISBN|9780276446603}}||VDL 2011 (US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 140||''Babbitt''||[[Biography:Sinclair Lewis|Sinclair Lewis]]||2011||||2011(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 141||''The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn''||Mark Twain||2011||{{ISBN|0-89577-252-3}}
|1986(US) 1991(UK) 2011 (US/UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/>
|-
| 142||''The Scarlet Letter''||Nathaniel Hawthorne||2011||||1984/1990/2011(US) 1990(AUS) 1990 (CAN) 2012 (UK)<ref name="Abebookes"/>
|-
| 143||''A Tale of Two Cities''||[[Biography:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]||2011||||1984/1993/2011(US) 1993/1994/2001/2003/2012(UK) 1985/1999/2001(AUS)<ref name="Abebookes"/>
|-
| 144||''The Good Soldier''||Ford Madox Ford||2011||||2011(US/UK)<ref name=book /> 
|-
| 145||''The Jungle''||[[Biography:Upton Sinclair|Upton Sinclair]]||2011||||
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| 146||''A Study In Scarlet'' / ''The Hound Of The Baskervilles''||Sir Arthur Conan Doyle||2011||{{oclc|727320142}}|| VDL 2011 (US/UK)
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| 147||''Moonstone''||[[Social:Wilkie Collins|Wilkie Collins]]||2011||{{ISBN|9780276446627}}|| VDL 2011 (US/UK) (There also seems to be a Reader's Digest Impress Edition in the US)
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| 148||''Robinson Crusoe''||Daniel Defoe||2011||{{ISBN|9781780200316}}|| VDL 2011 (US/UK)
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| 149||''The War of the Worlds'' / ''The Time Machine''||[[Biography:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells]]||2011||{{ISBN|9781780200323}}|| VDL 2011 (US/UK)
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| 150||''Jo's Boys''||Louisa May Alcott||2011||{{ISBN|9781780200330}}|| VDL 2011 (US/UK)
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| 151||''Ivanhoe''||Sir Walter Scott||2012||{{ISBN|9781780201184}}||VDL 2012 (US/UK) <ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-1780201184}}</ref>
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|152
|''The Last of the Mohicans''
|James Fenimore Cooper
|2012
|{{ISBN|9781780201177}}
|VDL 2012 (UK)
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| 153||''Lorna Doone''||R D Blackmore||2013||||1995(UK) 2013(US)
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154 Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 2012 ISBN 9781780201160 VDL2012 (UK)[printed in Germany]

{{Incomplete list|date=May 2010}} <!--See the LibraryThing thread in External Links for a more complete list-->

== Variations Within The Series ==

There are many variations within the WBR series.  The most common variations include cloth boards versus smooth boards, patterned end papers with ribbon bookmarks versus plain colored end papers without ribbon bookmarks, different colored covers but retaining the same embossed cover image, and books that have completely different cover art than other editions.

One example of cloth boards versus plain boards is ''Far From The Madding Crowd''.  Both the cloth and the plain editions are the same color with the same artwork, only the material of the boards is different.  Other examples include ''Moby Dick, Treasure Island, O Pioneers, The Sea Wolf,'' and ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''.

An example of the variation of patterned end papers with ribbon bookmarks versus plain colored end papers without bookmarks is ''Silas Marner''.  Both books have the same artwork on the outside cover, but on the inside one edition has plain white end papers and the other has marble patterned end papers and a colored ribbon bookmark.  Other titles with this variation are ''Pride And Prejudice, The Call of the Wild/White Fang, The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, The Last Of The Mohicans, A Tale Of Two Cities, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Twice-Told Tales,'' and ''The Innocents Abroad.''

An example of a title having different colored covers but retaining the same embossed artwork image is ''A Tale Of Two Cities''.  Cover variations of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' include a blue cloth cover, a brown cloth cover, and a red cover.  Other editions with this variation include ''The Innocents Abroad, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tale of Two Cities, Tales of Suspense, Silas Marner, Wuthering Heights'' (old cover style), ''Ben Hur, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer'', and ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes''.

''Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' is an example where in two editions the boards are the same color (gray) but the embossed parts of the cover and the faux quarter leather covering are different colors.  The artwork and faux leather is red in one edition and blue in the other edition.

Some books have been printed with completely different cover artwork from other editions.  Examples include ''Barchester Towers, The Jungle Books, Captains Courageous, Beau Geste'', and ''Wuthering Heights''.  For some books, such as ''The Jungle Books'' and ''Barchester Towers'', the UK edition was published with illustrations where the American version was not.

A spelling variation in a book title occurs with ''A Journey to the Center of the Earth''.  In the UK, the edition was published under the title ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth''.

In the United States, the James Hilton titles (''Lost Horizon, Good-bye Mr. Chips and Other Stories'') were printed in two separate volumes whereas in the UK edition, they were combined into one book.

Each edition in the WBR series includes a sheet folded in half numbered with page numbers one through four with a synopsis of the history of how the book came to be published and a short biography of the author and perhaps some information about the artist in illustrated editions.  ''On Our Selection/Our New Selection'' is different from the rest of the books because not only is the author biography insert included, but also a folder containing six 5.5" x 8.5" prints of artwork by artist Lionel Lindsay.  The prints included are titled ''Judy Wasn't Frightened Of Jew-Lizards'', ''Sarah Thought It A Fine Effect'', '''It's A Lie!' Dad roared'', ''Daniel Damascus Rudd, Sir!'', and ''Dad Come to See the Great Metropolis.''  These are illustrations found in the actual book.  One print is not from the book.  It is not given a title and depicts the father scratching his bare head riding a horse in the woods at a walk towards the lower right hand foreground.

Reader's Digest also issued a [[Engineering:Concealing objects in a book|book safe]] as part of the WBR series, ''Paradise Lost'' by John Milton.  The outside of the book safe is designed to look like other editions in the series, but inside the safe are two separated compartments.  The interior of the safe is lined with light gray velvet and is kept closed with velcro strips on the back of the cover and on the middle divider between the two compartments.

Vivat Direct Limited, t/a Reader's Digest, a publishing company in the UK that usually prints Reader's Digest Select Editions,<ref name="Reader's Digest UK">{{cite web|title=Reader's Digest UK|url=http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/|publisher=Vivat Direct Limited, ta Reader's Digest}}</ref> has published World's Best Reading books starting in 2010: ''Kidnapped/Treasure Island'' ({{ISBN|0276446585}}), ''Wuthering Heights'' ({{ISBN|0276446518}}), ''Oliver Twist'', ''Pride & Prejudice'', ''A Study In Scarlet/The Hound Of The Baskervilles(''{{ISBN|9780895772541}}), ''Moonstone'', ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''The War of the Worlds/The Time Machine'', ''Jo's Boys'', ''Three Men in a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel'', and ''Ivanhoe'' ({{ISBN|9781780201184}}).  These editions were published with insert pages like the other World's Best Reading books with the World's Best Reading logo at the top of the first page just like the other inserts.  However, the inserts have the initials WBR above the spelled out World's Best Reading on the insert pages and the WBR initials on the spine of the books.  These books are different from the original World's Best Reading books because they are bound in cloth and do not have the faux quarter leather binding over the spine.  They also have illustrations on the front and back covers, unlike the rest of the series which have illustrations on the front cover board only.

==Notes==

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==External links==
*[http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=2951 World's Best Reading], collectors discussion forum, located at [[Company:LibraryThing|LibraryThing]]
*[https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/628867-reader-s-digest-world-s-best-reading-collectors Goodreads Group], for collectors.

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