Includes following stories: ANDERSONVILLE, ISLAND IN THE SUN, AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS, MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS, THE LONG RIDE HOME authors; Bonner Kantor, MacKinlay; Waugh, Alec; Godden, Rumer; Paul, Charlotte; McMillion. Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which were abridged (or "condensed") specifically for Reader's Digest.[1][2] The series was published from 1950 until 1997, when it was renamed Reader's Digest Select Editions.