OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB

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Oprah's Book Club is a book discussion club launched by Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 17, 1996, with its first pick, The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard. The original club ran monthly through 2002, shifted to a classics-focused "Travelling Library" era (2003–2005), and continued with occasional contemporary picks through 2011. It was relaunched as Oprah's Book Club 2.0 on June 1, 2012, in partnership with OWN and O: The Oprah Magazine, and continues today across OWN, Oprah Daily, the Apple TV+ show, and The Oprah Podcast (with Starbucks). An Oprah selection reliably becomes a bestseller — the "Oprah Effect."

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  1. June 2026
    Little Wonder

    by Sophie Chen Keller

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  2. May 2026
    John of John

    by Douglas Stuart

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  3. April 2026
    Go Gentle

    by Maria Semple

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  4. February 2026
    Kin

    by Tayari Jones

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  5. November 2025
    Some Bright Nowhere

    by Ann Packer

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  6. October 2025
    A Guardian and a Thief

    by Megha Majumdar

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  7. September 2025
    All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation

    by Elizabeth Gilbert

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  8. August 2025
    Bridge of Sighs

    by Richard Russo

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  9. July 2025
    Culpability

    by Bruce Holsinger

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  10. June 2025
    The River Is Waiting

    by Wally Lamb

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  11. May 2025
    The Emperor of Gladness

    by Ocean Vuong

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  12. April 2025
    Matriarch: A Memoir

    by Tina Knowles

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  13. March 2025
    The Tell

    by Amy Griffin

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  14. February 2025
    Dream State

    by Eric Puchner

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  15. January 2025
    A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

    by Eckhart Tolle

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  16. December 2024
    Small Things Like These

    by Claire Keegan

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  17. October 2024
    From Here to the Great Unknown

    by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

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  18. September 2024
    Tell Me Everything

    by Elizabeth Strout

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  19. June 2024
    Familiaris

    by David Wroblewski

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  20. May 2024
    Long Island

    by Colm Tóibín

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  21. February 2024
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

    by Lara Love Hardin

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  22. October 2023
    Let Us Descend

    by Jesmyn Ward

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  23. September 2023
    Wellness

    by Nathan Hill

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  24. May 2023
    The Covenant of Water

    by Abraham Verghese

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  25. March 2023
    Hello Beautiful

    by Ann Napolitano

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  26. February 2023
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

    by Susan Cain

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  27. October 2022
    Demon Copperhead

    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  28. September 2022
    That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

    by Jarvis Jay Masters

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  29. June 2022
    Nightcrawling

    by Leila Mottley

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  30. April 2022
    Finding Me

    by Viola Davis

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  31. February 2022
    The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

    by Martha Beck

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  32. September 2021
    Bewilderment

    by Richard Powers

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  33. August 2021
    The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

    by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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  34. June 2021
    The Sweetness of Water

    by Nathan Harris

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  35. March 2021
    Gilead

    by Marilynne Robinson

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  36. March 2021
    Home

    by Marilynne Robinson

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  37. March 2021
    Lila

    by Marilynne Robinson

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  38. March 2021
    Jack

    by Marilynne Robinson

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  39. November 2020
    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

    by Isabel Wilkerson

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  40. June 2020
    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride

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  41. April 2020
    Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

    by Robert Kolker

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  42. November 2019
    Olive, Again

    by Elizabeth Strout

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  43. September 2019
    The Water Dancer

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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  44. November 2018
    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama

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  45. June 2018
    The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

    by Anthony Ray Hinton

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  46. February 2018
    An American Marriage

    by Tayari Jones

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  47. June 2017
    Behold the Dreamers

    by Imbolo Mbue

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  48. September 2016
    Love Warrior

    by Glennon Doyle Melton

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  49. August 2016
    The Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead

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  50. February 2015
    Ruby

    by Cynthia Bond

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  51. January 2014
    The Invention of Wings

    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  52. December 2012
    The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

    by Ayana Mathis

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  53. June 2012
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    by Cheryl Strayed

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  54. A Tale of Two Cities cover
    December 2010
    A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens

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  55. Great Expectations cover
    December 2010
    Great Expectations

    by Charles Dickens

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  56. September 2010
    Freedom

    by Jonathan Franzen

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  57. September 2009
    Say You're One of Them

    by Uwem Akpan

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  58. September 2008
    The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

    by David Wroblewski

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  59. January 2008
    A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

    by Eckhart Tolle

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  60. November 2007
    The Pillars of the Earth

    by Ken Follett

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  61. October 2007
    Love in the Time of Cholera

    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  62. June 2007
    Middlesex

    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  63. March 2007
    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

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  64. January 2007
    The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

    by Sidney Poitier

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  65. Night cover
    January 2006
    Night

    by Elie Wiesel

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  66. September 2005
    A Million Little Pieces

    by James Frey

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  67. June 2005
    Light in August

    by William Faulkner

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  68. June 2005
    As I Lay Dying

    by William Faulkner

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  69. June 2005
    The Sound and the Fury

    by William Faulkner

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  70. September 2004
    The Good Earth

    by Pearl S. Buck

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  71. May 2004
    Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

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  72. April 2004
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    by Carson McCullers

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  73. January 2004
    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  74. September 2003
    Cry, the Beloved Country

    by Alan Paton

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  75. June 2003
    East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck

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  76. April 2002
    Sula

    by Toni Morrison

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  77. January 2002
    Fall on Your Knees

    by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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  78. November 2001
    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry

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  79. September 2001
    The Corrections

    by Jonathan Franzen

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  80. June 2001
    Cane River

    by Lalita Tademy

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  81. May 2001
    Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

    by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi

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  82. March 2001
    Icy Sparks

    by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

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  83. January 2001
    We Were the Mulvaneys

    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  84. November 2000
    House of Sand and Fog

    by Andre Dubus III

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  85. September 2000
    Drowning Ruth

    by Christina Schwarz

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  86. August 2000
    Open House

    by Elizabeth Berg

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  87. June 2000
    The Poisonwood Bible

    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  88. May 2000
    While I Was Gone

    by Sue Miller

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  89. The Bluest Eye cover
    April 2000
    The Bluest Eye

    by Toni Morrison

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  90. March 2000
    Back Roads

    by Tawni O'Dell

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  91. February 2000
    Daughter of Fortune

    by Isabel Allende

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  92. January 2000
    Gap Creek

    by Robert Morgan

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  93. December 1999
    A Map of the World

    by Jane Hamilton

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  94. November 1999
    Vinegar Hill

    by A. Manette Ansay

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  95. October 1999
    River, Cross My Heart

    by Breena Clarke

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  96. September 1999
    Tara Road

    by Maeve Binchy

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  97. June 1999
    Mother of Pearl

    by Melinda Haynes

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  98. May 1999
    White Oleander

    by Janet Fitch

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  99. March 1999
    The Pilot's Wife

    by Anita Shreve

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  100. February 1999
    The Reader

    by Bernhard Schlink

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  101. January 1999
    Jewel

    by Bret Lott

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  102. December 1998
    Where the Heart Is

    by Billie Letts

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  103. October 1998
    Midwives

    by Chris Bohjalian

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  104. September 1998
    What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

    by Pearl Cleage

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  105. June 1998
    I Know This Much Is True

    by Wally Lamb

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  106. May 1998
    Breath, Eyes, Memory

    by Edwidge Danticat

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  107. April 1998
    Black and Blue

    by Anna Quindlen

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  108. March 1998
    Here on Earth

    by Alice Hoffman

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  109. January 1998
    Paradise

    by Toni Morrison

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  110. December 1997
    The Best Way to Play

    by Bill Cosby

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  111. December 1997
    The Treasure Hunt

    by Bill Cosby

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  112. December 1997
    The Meanest Thing to Say

    by Bill Cosby

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  113. October 1997
    Ellen Foster

    by Kaye Gibbons

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  114. October 1997
    A Virtuous Woman

    by Kaye Gibbons

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    September 1997
    A Lesson Before Dying

    by Ernest J. Gaines

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  116. June 1997
    Songs in Ordinary Time

    by Mary McGarry Morris

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  117. May 1997
    The Heart of a Woman

    by Maya Angelou

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  118. April 1997
    The Rapture of Canaan

    by Sheri Reynolds

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  119. February 1997
    Stones from the River

    by Ursula Hegi

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  120. December 1996
    She's Come Undone

    by Wally Lamb

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  121. November 1996
    The Book of Ruth

    by Jane Hamilton

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  122. October 1996
    Song of Solomon

    by Toni Morrison

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  123. September 1996
    The Deep End of the Ocean

    by Jacquelyn Mitchard

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