Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I found my next project! haha Need some suggestions/second opinions.

If you search RD Condensed Books, you'll notice that all the authors come up as one, so we have 158 versions of authors like Paul Gallico, Arthur Hailey, Jessamyn West, Spencer Dunmore.

I went to start cleaning them up and realized I wasn't exactly sold on the titles of these works. The RD does not register on a search for "Reader's Digest Condensed," and for a set of books largely without ISBN numbers, that makes them difficult to find.

So I'm torn between naming them between two ways:

1. Book1/Book2/Book3/Book4 (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume # YEAR)
2. Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume # YEAR

The ones I found on WorldCat are mostly listed in the 2nd method.

My second question is in regards to the author. Obviously each of the authors should be listed, but I wonder if, in this case, it would make sense to add "Reader's Digest Association" as the primary author. I would think that would be the most logical author to look for when looking for these types of things, but I also know that it's not the norm when there are specific authors involved.

I figure since I'll be editing all the authors anyway, I may as well clean them up as good as I can while I'm at it, but didn't want to edit 150+ books and then realize they should have been organized differently!

I vote for #2 (if it's up for a vote).

My gut says leave out the RDA as an author...if you're searching for it, and it's listed as #2, the search should still bring it up.

My hat is off to you on this project.