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Time Reading Program

The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history. The books were chosen by National Book Award judge Max Gissen, the chief book reviewer for Time from 1947 until the TRP began in 1962.

Series bibliography
Source: (Books listed by year of reprint publication. Original publication date not given. Authors who provided their own introductions are indicated with an "") 1962The American Character, D. W. BroganThe Power and the Glory, Graham GreeneReveille in Washington, Margaret LeechThe Worldly Philosophers, Robert L. HeilbronerMister Johnson, Joyce Cary, introduction by V.S. Pritchett, cover by James Spanfeller • ''King Solomon's Ring'', Konrad Lorenz, foreword by Julian HuxleyThe Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Introduction by Gordon A. CraigThe Crime of Galileo, Giorgio de SantillanaThe Ox-Bow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg ClarkWalden, Henry David Thoreau, cover by James SpanfellerThe River and the Gauntlet, S. L. A. MarshallAdmiral of the Ocean Sea a life of Christopher Columbus, vol 1 and 2, Samuel Eliot MorisonThe Plague, Albert CamusBurmese Days, George Orwell • Shakespeare, Ivor Brown • Notre Dame of Paris, Allan Temko • The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith • Lanterns and Lances, James Thurber • The Universe and Dr. Einstein, Lincoln Barnett • The Trial of Dr. Adams, Sybille Bedford • Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler • The Immense Journey, Loren EiseleyThe Story of Philosophy, Will Durant 1963Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Isaiah Berlin, introduction by Robert HeilbronerThe Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, introduction by Fred HoyleApes, Angels, and Victorians, William Irvine, introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, cover design by Richard RosenblumThe Late George Apley, John P. MarquandThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven • The Devil in Massachusetts, Marion L. Starkey • The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder • Lions, Harts, Leaping Does and Other Stories, J. F. Powers • The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton • In Defense of Women, H.L. Mencken • The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis • One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen • The True Believer, Eric Hoffer • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley • A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes • ''All the King's Men'', Robert Penn Warren • The American Presidency, Clinton Rossiter • In Flanders Fields, Leon Wolff 1964Mistress to an Age: A life of Madame de Staël, J. Christopher HeroldChrist Stopped at Eboli, Carlo LeviThe Bridge Over the River Kwai, Pierre Boulle and Xan FieldingEastern Approaches, Fitzroy MacleanThe Big Sky, A. B. GuthrieSaints and Strangers, George F. WillisonThe Sea And The Jungle, H.M. Tomlinson • The Sword in the Stone, T. H. White • A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce • Memento Mori, Muriel Spark • Murder for Profit, William Bolitho • The Beast of the Haitian Hills, Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin • The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary • Elizabeth the Great, Elizabeth Jenkins • Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov • The Forest and the Sea, Marston Bates • John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison • Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome • Three Who Made a Revolution, Volume 1, Bertram D. Wolfe • Three Who Made a Revolution, Volume 2, Bertram D. Wolfe • The Education of Henry Adams, Volume 1, Henry Adams • The Education of Henry Adams, Volume 2, Henry Adams • Doctor and the Devils, Dylan Thomas 1965I, Claudius: From the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born B.C. 10, murdered and deified A.D. 54, Robert GravesThe Edge of Day: A Boyhood In The West of England, Laurie Lee, drawings by John WardAttending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal, George Gaylord SimpsonLogbook For Grace:Whaling Brig Daisy 1912-1913, Robert Cushman MurphyThe Wapshot Chronicle, John CheeverThree Came Home, Agnes Newton Keith • ''Napoleon's Russian campaign'', Philippe-Paul Seìoui • Animal Farm, George Orwell • Kabloona, Gontran de Poncins • Disraeli, André Maurois • Bread and Wine, Ignazio Silone • Fancies and Goodnights, John Collier • The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers • The Great Rehearsal, Carl Van Doren • The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary • Delilah, Marcus Goodrich • The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West • The Voice at the Back Door, Elizabeth Spencer • Naked to Mine Enemies: Volume 1, Charles W. Ferguson • Naked to Mine Enemies: Volume 2, Charles W. Ferguson • The Sea of Grass, Conrad Richter • Bring Out Your Dead, J. H. Powell • Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • Man and the Living World, Karl von Frisch • Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee 1966The Decline of Pleasure, Walter Kerr, introduction by Phyllis McGinleyThe Natural, Bernard Malamud, cover design by Karl W. Stücklen, introduction by Roger AngellWickford Point, John P. Marquand, introduction by Edward WeeksWatchers at the Pond, Franklin Russell, illustrations by Robert W. Arnold, introduction by Gerald Durrell • Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis • When the Cheering Stopped: The last years of Woodrow Wilson, Gene Smith • Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • The Man of the Renaissance, Ralph Roeder • The Financial Expert, R.K. Narayan • Stalingrad, Theodor Plievier • The New Meaning of Treason, Rebecca West • Richer by Asia, Edmond Taylor • Poet's Choice, edited by Paul Engle and Joseph Langland • In Hazard, Richard Hughes • The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa • A Coffin for King Charles, C. V. Wedgwood ==References==
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