Books Recommended by Oprah Winfrey

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Eckhart Tolle

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Sidney Poitier

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Pearl Cleage

Sula by Toni Morrison

Sidney Poitier

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Jewel by Bret Lott
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book by Bill Cosby
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Oprah Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. She has also been sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.

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President Barack Obama awards the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Oprah Winfrey