Reader's Digest

In this era of information overload, Reader’s Digest offers something unique: the very best advice, information and inspiration from multiple sources, condensed into an easy-to-read digest. In each issue you’ll get trusted, time-saving insights about Health, Personal Finance, Work, Family, and National issues, PLUS exclusive book excerpts, news-making interviews, and humor.

Back to the Future

LETTERS • NOTES ON THE September ISSUE

BRAIN GAMES

Love’s Last Refrain • This musician calms the dying and soothes their families

A White Knight in the Aisle Seat

The GRAND NATIONAL TURKEY CALLING CONTEST • JESSE MARTIN, age 36, Mount Sterling, Kentucky

LIFE IN THESE United States

ZZZZZZZZZZIP IT! • A woman finds herself constantly awakened at night by her boyfriend talking in his sleep. So since she’s up, she decides to record what he’s saying. Here are some of his midnight ramblings:

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Keep Internet Spies Out of Your Home • “Smart” devices equipped with cameras and microphones can be easy targets for hackers

News FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

The Donkey Hug

LAUGHTER THE BEST Medicine

Thanksgiving for the Soul • A third-grade class knows exactly what will brighten an older neighbor’s holiday meal—and it isn’t a roast turkey

WE FOUND A FIX • 9 tricks to Improve Your Life*

A Healthy Fruit Celebrates Its Holiday

Cooking Hacks for Hacks

Surprising Innovations from World War I

Discovering a Lost Brother

The FUNINEST Jokes Since the Internet

The Nicest Places in America

And the Winner Is … Yassin’s Falafel House

Q&A Meet Our Chief Judge • The Good Morning America co-anchor on faith, family, and friends—the themes she saw underlying all the entries

The Top 10 Shining from Sea to Sea • From a restaurant in Tennessee to a whole county in Minnesota, this year’s finalists prove that kindness comes in all sizes and spirits.

In the Path of a Hurricane

Pouring Cups of Joe and Joy

Kindness By the Book

With Charity and Caring for All

Writing a New Chapter in Baltimore

Warriors Go to the Mat

One Bathroom at a Time

Scooching Over to Make Room

Small Town in the Big City

ALL in a Day’s WORK

PAGE-TURNERS • Four librarians share conversations that made their days.

The Secret Lives of LETTERS • They may be small characters, but there are amazing stories behind all 26 alphabet all-stars

34 Things You Need to Know About ARTHRITIS • This painful joint disease is actually a collection of more than 100 ailments—and it affects people of all ages

LOST IN THE PACIFIC WOODS • She set out to scatter her husband’s ashes in a national park. Would she make it out alive?

HUMOR in UNIFORM

WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE? JUST PRETEND! • Thinking you aren’t gifted may be what’s blocking your inner artist

BRAIN GAMES

WORD POWER • The editors at Merriam-Webster added a whopping 850 words and definitions to the dictionary in 2018—including, appropriately, wordie (“lover of words”). Quiz yourself on these other newcomers, then look up the answers on page 130.

CONNECTIONS: Your link to values and insights each month

PHOTO FINISH • YOUR Funniest CAPTIONS