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        • 50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library
        • Waterstones 100 Books of the Century
        • Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time
        • The Celebrity Reading List
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        • The Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
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83 Books Recommended by Oprah Winfrey

Oprah's Book Club Reading List

Oprah's Book Club (TV series)

  • American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (March 6, 2020)
  • Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (January 17, 2020)
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (November 1, 2019)

Oprah's Book Club 2.0

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Becoming by Michelle Obama (November 2018)
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 2018)
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (January 2014)
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (August 2016)
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (June 2012)​
  • Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (November 2019)
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 2019)
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama (November 2018)
  • The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (June 2018)
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 2018)
  • Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (June 2017)
  • Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton (September 2016)
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (August 2016)
  • Ruby by Cynthia Bond (February 2015)
  • The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (January 2014)
  • The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (December 2012)
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (June 2012)

Oprah's Book Club 1.0

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She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (December 1996)
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (June 2000)
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Night by Elie Wiesel (January 2006)
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (June 2007)
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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (June 1998)
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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (November 2007)
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White Oleander by Janet Fitch (May 1999)
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck (June 2003)
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Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (December 1998)
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy (March 2007)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (January 2004)
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (October 2007)
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Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (January 2002)
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The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (September 2004)
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (May 2004)
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (November 2001)
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Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (October 1998)
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (February 1999)
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The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (March 1999)
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​A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (December 2010)
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (December 2010)
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (November 2000)
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (April 2000)
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Sula by Toni Morrison (April 2002)
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Paradise by Toni Morrison (January 1998)
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (September 2005)
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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (February 2000)
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (October 1996)
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The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (September 1996)
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A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (January 2008)
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The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (November 1996)
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (June 2005)
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Light in August by William Faulkner (June 2005)
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​The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (June 2005)
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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (January 2001)
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A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton (December 1999)
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sir Sidney Poitier (January 2007)
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (September 2008)
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (September 2010)
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (September 1998)
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (December 2010)
  • ​A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (December 2010)
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (September 2010)
  • Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan (September 2009)
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (September 2008)
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (January 2008)
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (November 2007)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (October 2007)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (June 2007)
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy (March 2007)
  • The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sir Sidney Poitier (January 2007)
  • Night by Elie Wiesel (January 2006)
  • A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (September 2005)
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner ((une 2005)
    As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (June 2005)
    Light in August by William Faulkner (June 2005)
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (September 2004)
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (May 2004)
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (April 2004)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (January 2004)
  • Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (September 2003)
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck (June 2003)
  • Sula by Toni Morrison (April 2002)
  • Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (January 2002)
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (November 2001)
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (September 2001)
  • Cane River by Lalita Tademy (June 2001)
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir (May 2001)
  • Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (March 2001)
  • We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (January 2001)
  • House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (November 2000)
  • Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (September 2000)
  • Open House by Elizabeth Berg (August 2000)
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (June 2000)
  • While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (May 2000)
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (April 2000)
  • Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell (March 2000)
  • Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (February 2000)
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (January 2000)
  • A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton (December 1999)
  • Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay (November 1999)
  • River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke (October 1999)
  • Tara Road by Maeve Binchy (September 1999)
  • Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes (June 1999)
  • White Oleander by Janet Fitch (May 1999)
  • The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (March 1999)
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (February 1999)
  • Jewel by Bret Lott (January 1999)
  • Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (December 1998)
  • Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (October 1998)
  • What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (September 1998)
  • I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (June 1998)
  • Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (May 1998)
  • Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (April 1998)
  • Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman (March 1998)
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison (January 1998)
  • The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby (December 1997)
  • The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby (December 1997)
  • Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (October 1997)
  • A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons (October 1997)
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (September 1997)
  • The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby (September 1997)
  • Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris (June 1997)
  • The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (May 1997)
  • The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds (April 1997)
  • Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi (February 1997)
  • She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (December 1996)
  • The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (November 1996)
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (October 1996)
  • The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (September 1996)

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  • 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.
  • Actress, talk show host and philanthropist.
    ​Net worth: 2.6 billion USD (2020)
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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Book_Club
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Book_Club_2.0#Oprah's_Book_Club_2.0_selections
  • ​https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/216.Oprah_s_Book_Club_Picks​

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