Oprah's Book Club

In 1996, Oprah Winfrey launched her book club. Many of her recommendations quickly obtained bestseller status. In addition, she encouraged many people to begin reading, whether it be new books or classics. The book list is courtesy of www.oprah.com.

2008
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purposes by Eckhart Tolle.

2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

2006
Night by Elie Wiesel

2005
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2003
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2002
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Sula by Toni Morrison

2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malilka Oufkir
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Cane River by Lalita Tademy

2000
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

1999
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Jewel by Bret Lott
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

1998
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

1997
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Updated March 12, 2008