Oprah's Book Club Picks
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Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
Walden, by Michael T. Dolan
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
Waiting to Exhale, by Terry McMillan
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
A Curse Dark as Gold, by Elizabeth C. Bunce
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers, by Stephen King
Salem's Lot, by Stephen King
Family Tree, by Barbara Delinsky
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, by Judith Rossner
A Little Class on Murder, by Carolyn Hart
Savvy, by Ingrid Law
Disappearance, by Don Inman
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
Cycle of the Werewolf, by Stephen King
A Day Late and a Dollar Short, by Terry McMillan
There are currently 63 books on Oprah's list.

I think they are. If you go look at her site, they are there.


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

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Faraaz Kazi
Table 21 - T. Rafael Cimino
Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
Chromosome 6 - Robin Cook
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dead Men Do Tell Tales - William R. Maples
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther
Unnatural Death - Michael Baden
Just Plain Folks - Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
When God Weeps - Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Estes

http://bestsellers.about.com/od/oprah...
1996:
• The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Deep End of the Ocean by by Jacquelyn Mitchard
1997:
• The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
• The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
• The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• Songs in Ordinary Time by Marry McGarry Morris
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1998:
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
1999:
• A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
• Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
• River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
• Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
• Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Jewel by Bret Lott
2000:
• House of Sand and Fog by by Andre Dubus III
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• Open House by Elizabeth Berg
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
• The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
• Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
• Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
2001:
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
• Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
2002:
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2003:
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
2004:
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2005:
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• A Light in August by William Faulkner
2006:
• Night by Elie Wiesel
2007:
• The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2008:
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2009:
• Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
2010:
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2012:
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight- Alexandra Fuller
Sea Glass- Anita Shreve
Undeadly- Michele Vail
2:32 AM- Emily Ford
White Horses- Alice Hoffman


The Red Speck by S. Conde
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier


The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Body and Bread by Nan Cuba



These are not "Oprah" books. I am deleting them. The Lovely Bones is getting deleted too for the same reason.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

1996:
• The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Deep End of the Ocean by by Jacquelyn Mitchard
1997:
• The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
• The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
• The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• Songs in Ordinary Time by Marry McGarry Morris
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1998:
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
1999:
• A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
• Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
• River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
• Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
• Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Jewel by Bret Lott
2000:
• House of Sand and Fog by by Andre Dubus III
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
• Open House by Elizabeth Berg
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
• The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
• Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
• Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
2001:
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
• Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
2002:
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2003:
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
2004:
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
2005:
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• A Light in August by William Faulkner
2006:
• Night by Elie Wiesel
2007:
• The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2008:
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2009:
• Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
2010:
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2012:
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
2014:
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2015:
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond

-The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings
-Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
-Evergreen by Belva Plain
-Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
-Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
-The Giver by Lois Lowry
-The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
-We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
-Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman

Removing these books for not being "Oprah" book club books:
-Clipped Wings by Helena Hunting
-The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten
-The Misapprehention of Bella Swan by hunterhunting

-Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
-A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
-Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Wayne W. Dyer
-A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers, 2nd Edition by Helen Shucman
-Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old by Deepak Chopra
-Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
-Be Here Now by Ram Dass
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
-Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
-Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert





What a wonderful experience. I feel the same way about her selections.

Pat, I saw that too. Unfortunately, I can't remove or duplicate them because one of them is a book that contains both novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, which are both Oprah's picks. It's kind of irritating to me that I can't fix it or separate the votes.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
and
Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle Melton
I am also removing a couple of books that have been added but are not part of the book club books.
Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

by Glennon Doyle Melton , i think its a recent addition to Oprah book club.
I also found that there are two additional books thats not a part of oprah book club:
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
Edna in the Desert by Maddy Lederman
since i m not the owner of the list i cannot delete these two entries

by Glennon Doyle Melton , i think its a recent addition to Oprah book club.
I also found that there are two additional books thats not a part ..."
Thanks Rachel. I am going to remove the books now. I am not the "owner" of the list, but I have been trying to keep it correct.
A lot of good books to stretch your mind, even the ones not on the "official" list. JMHO

The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight- Alexandra Fuller
Sea Glass- Anita Shreve
Undeadly-..." DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (alexandra fuller) is a great, enjoyable book.

Black Ink Heart by Laurinda Lawrence
Scarlett Wrigley and the Light Beneath the Veil by Charmaine Mullins-Jaime
Just authors voting for their own books lmao