Oprah's Book Club
The following are picks from Oprah's Book Club. A few times each year, Oprah announces the title of the book to be featured in Oprah's Book Club. In the first few years of her book club, Oprah would invite the author and selected viewers to dinner to discuss the book. The author and viewers would then later appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the book with the audience. Now the authors often appear with Oprah on CBS.
Being included in The Oprah Book Club sends sales of a book soaring as readers rush to purchase it. More information on The Oprah Winfrey Show can be found online at: oprah.com.
July 2025
Culpability
by Bruce Holsinger
Amazon.com
June 2025
The River Is Waiting
by Wally Lamb
Amazon.com
May 2025
The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
Amazon.com
April 2025
Matriarch: A Memoir
by Tina Knowles
Amazon.com
March 2025
The Tell
by Amy Griffin
Amazon.com
February 2025
Dream State
by Eric Puchner
Amazon.com
January 2025
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
Amazon.com
December 2024
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
Amazon.com
October 2024
From Here to the Great Unknown
by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
Amazon.com
September 2024
Tell Me Everything
by Elizabeth Strout
Amazon.com
June 2024
Familiaris
by David Wroblewski
Amazon.com
May 2024
Long Island
by Colm Tóibín
Amazon.com
February 2024
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
by Lara Love Hardin
Amazon.com
October 2023
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
Amazon.com
September 2023
Wellness
by Nathan Hill
Amazon.com
May 2023
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Amazon.com
March 2023
Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
Amazon.com
February 2023
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
Amazon.com
October 2022
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Amazon.com
September 2022
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
by Jarvis Jay Masters
Amazon.com
June 2022
Nightcrawling
by Leila Mottley
Amazon.com
April 2022
Finding Me
by Viola Davis
Amazon.com
February 2022
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
by Martha Beck
Amazon.com
September 2021
Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
Amazon.com
August 2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Amazon.com
June 2021
The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
Amazon.com
March 2021
Gilead; Home; Lila; Jack
by Marilynne Robinson
Amazon.com
November 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Amazon.com
June 2020
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
Amazon.com
April 2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker
Amazon.com
November 2019
Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
Amazon.com
September 2019
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Amazon.com
November 2018
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Amazon.com
June 2018
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton
Amazon.com
February 2018
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
Amazon.com
June 2017
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
Amazon.com
September 2016
Love Warrior: A Memoir
by Glennon Doyle Melton
Amazon.com
August 2016
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Amazon.com
February 2015
Ruby
by Cynthia Bond
Amazon.com
January 2014
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Amazon.com
December 2012
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Amazon.com
June 2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Amazon.com
December 2010
Great Expectations; A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Amazon.com
September 2010
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
Amazon.com
September 2009
Say You’re One of Them
by Uwem Akpan
Amazon.com
January 2008
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Toll
Amazon.com
October 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amazon.com
January 2007
The Measure of a Man
by Sidney Poitier
Amazon.com
January 2006
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Amazon.com
September 2005
A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
Amazon.com
June, July and August 2005
A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August
by William Faulkner
Amazon.com
September 2004
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
Amazon.com
June 2004
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Amazon.com
April 2004
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Amazon.com
January 2004
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amazon.com
September 2003
Cry, The Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
Amazon.com
June 2003
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Amazon.com
April 2002
Sula
by Toni Morrison
Amazon.com
January 2002
Fall On Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Amazon.com
November 2001
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
Amazon.com
September 2001
The Corrections
by Jonathen Franzen
Amazon.com
July 2001
Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
Amazon.com
May 2001
Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
by Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi, Ros Schwartz
Amazon.com
March 2001
Icy Sparks
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Amazon.com
January 2001
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
November 2000
House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus III
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
September 2000
Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
August 2000
Open House
by Elizabeth Berg
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
June 2000
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
May 2000
While I Was Gone
by Sue Miller
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
April 2000
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
March 2000
Back Roads
by Tawni O'Dell
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
February 2000
Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
January 2000
Gap Creek
by Robert Morgan
Amazon.com.
December 1999
A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
November 1999
Vinegar Hill
by A. Manette Ansay
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
October 1999
River, Cross My Heart
by Breena Clarke
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
September 1999
Tara Road
by Maeve Binchy
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
June 1999
Mother of Pearl
by Melinda Haynes
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
May 1999
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
March 1999
The Pilot's Wife
by Anita Shreve
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
February 1999
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
January 1999
Jewel
by Bret Lott
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
December 1998
Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
October 1998
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
September 1998
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
by Pearl Cleage
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
June 1998
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
May 1998
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
April 1998
Black and Blue : A Novel
by Anna Quindlen
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
March 1998
Here on Earth
by Alice Hoffman
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
January 1998
Paradise
by Toni Morrison
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
December 1997
The Best Way to Play: Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers
by Bill Cosby, Varnette P. Honeywood
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
November 1997
A Virtuous Woman
by Kaye Gibbons
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
September 1997
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
June 1997
Songs in Ordinary Time
by Mary McGarry Morris
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
May 1997
The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
April 1997
The Rapture of Canaan
by Sheri Reynolds
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
February 1997
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
January 1997
She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
November 1996
The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
October 1996
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
September 1996
The Deep End of the Ocean
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk
