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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>The <b>Time Reading Program</b> (<b>TRP</b>) was a <a href="Book_sales_club" title="Book sales club">book sales club</a> run by <a href="Time%E2%80%93Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Time–Life">Time–Life</a>, the publisher of <i><a href="Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time magazine</a></i>, from 1962 through 1966. <i>Time</i> 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 <a href="National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a> judge <a href="Max_Gissen" title="Max Gissen">Max Gissen</a>, the chief book reviewer for <i>Time</i> from 1947 until the TRP began in 1962.

</p><p>The books themselves were published by <a href="Time_Inc." title="Time Inc.">Time Inc.</a> and followed a specific format across their widely varying subject matter. The editions were <a href="Paperback#Trade_paperback" title="Paperback">trade paperbacks</a>, with covers constructed of very stiff <a href="Plastic-coated_paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastic-coated paper">plastic-coated paper</a>, for durability. The books were eight inches tall, just less than an inch taller than a standard mass-market or "rack" paperback. Each book had a wraparound cover with a continuous piece of artwork across both covers and the spine, generally a painting by a contemporary artist, commissioned specifically for the TRP edition. The TRP covers attracted a measure of acclaim at the time. According to <i>Time</i>, 19 TRP covers were cited in 1964 for awards from The <a href="American_Institute_of_Graphic_Arts" title="American Institute of Graphic Arts">American Institute of Graphic Arts</a>, <i>Commercial Art Magazine</i> and the <a href="Society_of_Illustrators" title="Society of Illustrators">Society of Illustrators</a> guild. Typography and other printing credits were given in a <a href="Colophon_(publishing)" title="Colophon (publishing)">colophon</a> on the end pages, in the manner of sophisticated publishing houses like <a href="Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Alfred A. Knopf</a>. The <a href="William_Addison_Dwiggins" title="William Addison Dwiggins">William Addison Dwiggins</a> typeface <a href="Caledonia_(typeface)" title="Caledonia (typeface)">Caledonia</a> was typically used. The logo for the series was in format of a <a href="Monogram" title="Monogram">monogram</a>, <b>"<small>R</small><big>T</big><small>P</small>"</b>, enclosed in a rounded slightly rectangular box.

</p><p>While not, strictly speaking, original publications, most of the TRP books had unique introductions written by various scholars specifically for the TRP edition. In a few cases, the texts had also been revised by the authors to create a definitive edition, and did not constitute abridgement.

</p><p>Subscribers to the TRP typically received four books a month, though some books arrived as multi-volume sets. Included with shipments was a small newsletter describing the books and why they were chosen.

</p><p>Time revived the program in the early 1980s, with many of the same titles.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Series_bibliography[1][2]">Series bibliography<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></h2></div>

<p>(Books listed by year of reprint publication. Original publication date not given. Authors who provided their own introductions are indicated with an "<b>‡</b>")

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<ul><li><i>The American Character</i>, <a href="D._W._Brogan" class="mw-redirect" title="D. W. Brogan">D. W. Brogan</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Power_and_the_Glory" title="The Power and the Glory">The Power and the Glory</a></i>, <a href="Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a><b>‡</b></li>

<li><i>Reveille in Washington</i>, <a href="Margaret_Leech" title="Margaret Leech">Margaret Leech</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Worldly_Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="The Worldly Philosophers">The Worldly Philosophers</a></i>, <a href="Robert_L._Heilbroner" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert L. Heilbroner">Robert L. Heilbroner</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Mister_Johnson_(novel)" title="Mister Johnson (novel)">Mister Johnson</a></i>, <a href="Joyce_Cary" title="Joyce Cary">Joyce Cary</a>, introduction by <a href="V.S._Pritchett" class="mw-redirect" title="V.S. Pritchett">V.S. Pritchett</a>, cover by James Spanfeller</li>

<li><i><a href="King_Solomon's_Ring_(nonfiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon's Ring (nonfiction)">King Solomon's Ring</a></i>, <a href="Konrad_Lorenz" title="Konrad Lorenz">Konrad Lorenz</a>, foreword by <a href="Julian_Huxley" title="Julian Huxley">Julian Huxley</a></li>

<li><i>The Reason Why</i>, <a href="Cecil_Woodham-Smith" title="Cecil Woodham-Smith">Cecil Woodham-Smith</a>, Introduction by <a href="Gordon_A._Craig" title="Gordon A. Craig">Gordon A. Craig</a></li>

<li><i>The Crime of Galileo</i>, <a href="Giorgio_de_Santillana" title="Giorgio de Santillana">Giorgio de Santillana</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Ox-Bow_Incident" title="The Ox-Bow Incident">The Ox-Bow Incident</a></i>, <a href="Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark" title="Walter Van Tilburg Clark">Walter Van Tilburg Clark</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Walden" title="Walden">Walden</a></i>, <a href="Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, cover by James Spanfeller</li>

<li><i>The River and the Gauntlet</i>, <a href="S._L._A._Marshall" title="S. L. A. Marshall">S. L. A. Marshall</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Admiral_of_the_Ocean_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral of the Ocean Sea">Admiral of the Ocean Sea</a></i> a life of Christopher Columbus, vol 1 and 2, <a href="Samuel_Eliot_Morison" title="Samuel Eliot Morison">Samuel Eliot Morison</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Plague_(novel)" title="The Plague (novel)">The Plague</a></i>, <a href="Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Burmese_Days" title="Burmese Days">Burmese Days</a></i>, <a href="George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></li>

<li>Shakespeare, <a href="Ivor_Brown" title="Ivor Brown">Ivor Brown</a></li>

<li>Notre Dame of Paris, <a href="Allan_Temko" title="Allan Temko">Allan Temko</a></li>

<li>The Great Crash 1929, <a href="John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith">John Kenneth Galbraith</a></li>

<li>Lanterns and Lances, <a href="James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a></li>

<li>The Universe and Dr. Einstein, <a href="Lincoln_Barnett" title="Lincoln Barnett">Lincoln Barnett</a></li>

<li>The Trial of Dr. Adams, <a href="Sybille_Bedford" title="Sybille Bedford">Sybille Bedford</a></li>

<li>Darkness at Noon, <a href="Arthur_Koestler" title="Arthur Koestler">Arthur Koestler</a></li>

<li>The Immense Journey, <a href="Loren_Eiseley" title="Loren Eiseley">Loren Eiseley</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Story_of_Philosophy" title="The Story of Philosophy">The Story of Philosophy</a></i>, <a href="Will_Durant" title="Will Durant">Will Durant</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="Karl_Marx%3A_His_Life_and_Environment" title="Karl Marx: His Life and Environment">Karl Marx: His Life and Environment</a></i>, <a href="Isaiah_Berlin" title="Isaiah Berlin">Isaiah Berlin</a>, introduction by <a href="Robert_Heilbroner" title="Robert Heilbroner">Robert Heilbroner</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Martian_Chronicles" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></i>, <a href="Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, introduction by <a href="Fred_Hoyle" title="Fred Hoyle">Fred Hoyle</a></li>

<li><i>Apes, Angels, and Victorians</i>, William Irvine, introduction by <a href="Sir_Julian_Huxley" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Julian Huxley">Sir Julian Huxley</a>, cover design by Richard Rosenblum</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Late_George_Apley" title="The Late George Apley">The Late George Apley</a></i>, <a href="John_P._Marquand" title="John P. Marquand">John P. Marquand</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre" title="The Treasure of the Sierra Madre">The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</a></i>, <a href="B._Traven" title="B. Traven">B. Traven</a></li>

<li>The Devil in Massachusetts, Marion L. Starkey</li>

<li>The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey" title="The Bridge of San Luis Rey">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a></i>, <a href="Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a></li>

<li>Lions, Harts, Leaping Does and Other Stories, J. F. Powers</li>

<li>The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton</li>

<li>In Defense of Women, H.L. Mencken</li>

<li>The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis</li>

<li>One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</li>

<li>Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen</li>

<li>The True Believer, Eric Hoffer</li>

<li><i><a href="Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i>, <a href="Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a></li>

<li>A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes</li>

<li><i><a href="All_the_King's_Men" title="All the King's Men">All the King's Men</a></i>, <a href="Robert_Penn_Warren" title="Robert Penn Warren">Robert Penn Warren</a></li>

<li>The American Presidency, Clinton Rossiter</li>

<li><a href="In_Flanders_Fields" title="In Flanders Fields">In Flanders Fields</a>, <a href="Leon_Wolff" title="Leon Wolff">Leon Wolff</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i>Mistress to an Age: A life of <a href="Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl" title="Germaine de Staël">Madame de Staël</a></i>, <a href="J._Christopher_Herold" title="J. Christopher Herold">J. Christopher Herold</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Christ_Stopped_at_Eboli" title="Christ Stopped at Eboli">Christ Stopped at Eboli</a></i>, <a href="Carlo_Levi" title="Carlo Levi">Carlo Levi</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Bridge_Over_the_River_Kwai" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bridge Over the River Kwai">The Bridge Over the River Kwai</a></i>, <a href="Pierre_Boulle" title="Pierre Boulle">Pierre Boulle</a> and <a href="Xan_Fielding" title="Xan Fielding">Xan Fielding</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Eastern_Approaches" title="Eastern Approaches">Eastern Approaches</a></i>, <a href="Sir_Fitzroy_Maclean%2C_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet">Fitzroy Maclean</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Big_Sky_(novel)" title="The Big Sky (novel)">The Big Sky</a></i>, <a href="A._B._Guthrie" class="mw-redirect" title="A. B. Guthrie">A. B. Guthrie</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Saints_and_Strangers" title="Saints and Strangers">Saints and Strangers</a></i>, <a href="George_F._Willison" title="George F. Willison">George F. Willison</a></li>

<li><i>The Sea And The Jungle</i>, <a href="H.M._Tomlinson" class="mw-redirect" title="H.M. Tomlinson">H.M. Tomlinson</a></li>

<li>The Sword in the Stone, T. H. White</li>

<li>A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann</li>

<li>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce</li>

<li>Memento Mori, Muriel Spark</li>

<li>Murder for Profit, William Bolitho</li>

<li>The Beast of the Haitian Hills, Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin</li>

<li>The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary</li>

<li>Elizabeth the Great, Elizabeth Jenkins</li>

<li><i><a href="Bend_Sinister_(novel)" title="Bend Sinister (novel)">Bend Sinister</a></i>, <a href="Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a><b>‡</b></li>

<li>The Forest and the Sea, Marston Bates</li>

<li>John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison</li>

<li>Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome</li>

<li>Three Who Made a Revolution, Volume 1, Bertram D. Wolfe</li>

<li>Three Who Made a Revolution, Volume 2, Bertram D. Wolfe</li>

<li>The Education of Henry Adams, Volume 1, Henry Adams</li>

<li>The Education of Henry Adams, Volume 2, Henry Adams</li>

<li>Doctor and the Devils, Dylan Thomas</li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="I%2C_Claudius" title="I, Claudius">I, Claudius</a>: From the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born B.C. 10, murdered and deified A.D. 54</i>, <a href="Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a></li>

<li><i>The Edge of Day: A Boyhood In The West of England</i>, <a href="Laurie_Lee" title="Laurie Lee">Laurie Lee</a>, drawings by <a href="John_Stanton_Ward" title="John Stanton Ward">John Ward</a></li>

<li><i>Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal</i>, <a href="George_Gaylord_Simpson" title="George Gaylord Simpson">George Gaylord Simpson</a></li>

<li><i>Logbook For Grace:Whaling Brig </i>Daisy<i> 1912-1913</i>, <a href="Robert_Cushman_Murphy" title="Robert Cushman Murphy">Robert Cushman Murphy</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Wapshot_Chronicle" title="The Wapshot Chronicle">The Wapshot Chronicle</a></i>, <a href="John_Cheever" title="John Cheever">John Cheever</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Three_Came_Home" title="Three Came Home">Three Came Home</a></i>, <a href="Agnes_Newton_Keith" title="Agnes Newton Keith">Agnes Newton Keith</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Napoleon's_Russian_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon's Russian campaign">Napoleon's Russian campaign</a></i>, Philippe-Paul Seìoui</li>

<li>Animal Farm, George Orwell</li>

<li>Kabloona, Gontran de Poncins</li>

<li>Disraeli, André Maurois</li>

<li>Bread and Wine, Ignazio Silone</li>

<li><i><a href="Fancies_and_Goodnights" title="Fancies and Goodnights">Fancies and Goodnights</a></i>, <a href="John_Collier_(fiction_writer)" title="John Collier (fiction writer)">John Collier</a></li>

<li>The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers</li>

<li>The Great Rehearsal, Carl Van Doren</li>

<li>The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary</li>

<li>Delilah, Marcus Goodrich</li>

<li>The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West</li>

<li>The Voice at the Back Door, Elizabeth Spencer</li>

<li>Naked to Mine Enemies: Volume 1, Charles W. Ferguson</li>

<li>Naked to Mine Enemies: Volume 2, Charles W. Ferguson</li>

<li>The Sea of Grass, Conrad Richter</li>

<li>Bring Out Your Dead, J. H. Powell</li>

<li>Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</li>

<li>Man and the Living World, Karl von Frisch</li>

<li>Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee</li></ul>

<ul><li><i>The Decline of Pleasure</i>, <a href="Walter_Kerr" title="Walter Kerr">Walter Kerr</a>, introduction by <a href="Phyllis_McGinley" title="Phyllis McGinley">Phyllis McGinley</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Natural" title="The Natural">The Natural</a></i>, <a href="Bernard_Malamud" title="Bernard Malamud">Bernard Malamud</a>, cover design by Karl W. Stücklen, introduction by <a href="Roger_Angell" title="Roger Angell">Roger Angell</a></li>

<li><i>Wickford Point</i>, <a href="John_P._Marquand" title="John P. Marquand">John P. Marquand</a>, introduction by <a href="Edward_Weeks" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Weeks">Edward Weeks</a></li>

<li><i>Watchers at the Pond</i>, Franklin Russell, illustrations by Robert W. Arnold, introduction by <a href="Gerald_Durrell" title="Gerald Durrell">Gerald Durrell</a></li>

<li>Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis</li>

<li><i>When the Cheering Stopped</i>: The last years of Woodrow Wilson, Gene Smith</li>

<li>Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</li>

<li>The Man of the Renaissance, Ralph Roeder</li>

<li>The Financial Expert, R.K. Narayan</li>

<li>Stalingrad, Theodor Plievier</li>

<li>The New Meaning of Treason, <a href="Rebecca_West" title="Rebecca West">Rebecca West</a></li>

<li>Richer by Asia, Edmond Taylor</li>

<li>Poet's Choice, edited by Paul Engle and Joseph Langland</li>

<li>In Hazard, Richard Hughes</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Leopard" title="The Leopard">The Leopard</a></i>, <a href="Giuseppe_di_Lampedusa" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppe di Lampedusa">Giuseppe di Lampedusa</a></li>

<li>A Coffin for King Charles, C. V. Wedgwood</li></ul>

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