Friday, December 20, 2013

Three books have been selected as part of Oprah's Book Club 2.0 so far

The Oprah Winfrey Show aired its final episode in May 2011 after 25 years and 4,561 episodes. I didn’t watch Oprah often, but I did follow the news about Oprah’s Book Club, which highlighted books selected by the famous host.

Oprah started the club in 1996, and it also ended its 15-year run in May 2011. During that time, Oprah recommended 70 books, and below you’ll find a complete list of those books.

A couple of weeks ago, I read that Oprah had re-launched her book club and is now calling it Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. The re-launch occurred in June 2012, nearly a year after she discontinued her original book club. So far, she’s selected three books for her 2.0 re-launch. Here’s a list of them in alphabetical order by title:

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2.0 READING LIST:

  1. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
  2. The Twelve Tribes of Haiti by Ayana Mathis
  3. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

OPRAH WINFREY ORIGINAL BOOK CLUB SELECTION LIST:

  1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  2. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  3. Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
  4. The Best Way to Play by Bill Crosby
  5. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
  6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  7. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  8. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  9. Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  10. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  11. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  12. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  13. The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
  14. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
  15. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  16. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  17. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  18. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  19. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  20. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  21. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  23. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  24. The Heart of a Woman by May Angelou
  25. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
  26. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  27. Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  28. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  29. Jewel by Bret Lott
  30. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  31. Light in August by William Faulkner
  32. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  33. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  34. The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
  35. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
  36. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  37. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
  38. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
  39. Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
  40. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
  41. Night by Elie Wiesel
  42. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  43. Open House by Elizabeth Berg
  44. Paradise by Toni Morrison
  45. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  46. The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
  47. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  48. The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
  49. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  50. River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  51. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  52. Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
  53. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  54. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  55. Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
  56. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  57. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
  58. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
  59. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  60. Sula by Toni Morrison
  61. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  62. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
  63. The Treasure Hunt by Bill Crosby
  64. Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  65. A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  66. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
  67. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
  68. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
  69. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
  70. White Oleander by Janet Fitch


In the end, how many of these books have you had a chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.

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