Complete List of Oprah's Book Club Books
2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
webcast, a journey
webcast, awakening
2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
struggle between good and evil erupts, church vs. state bro vs. bro
story about love in all guises—small and large, passionate and serene.
occupy the unnamed middle ground between male and female, etc
the worst and the best that we are capable of
autobiography amidst life struggles and racial tensions.
2006
Night by Elie Wiesel
how he survived the Nazi death camps as a teenager
2005
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
[This turned out to be a con, a lot of controversy]
unflinching exploration of the dark recesses of the human condition.
cast of deeply troubled characters
lies in bed watching her oldest son build her coffin
2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
women's rights, family, class conflict, moral rights, hardship
most enthralling love affairs
14-year-old-girl, a deaf mute, a carnie, an aging black doctor and …
"magical realism"
2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
two men joined by circumstance; Nelson Mandela praises
Three generations, two love triangles, one timeless story.
2002
Sula by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
lives of two black heroines
five generations of one family's sin, guilt and redemption
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
all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism of India.
a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down
lives of women who battled unspeakable injustices to create a legacy
spent the next fifteen years in prison, the last ten in solitary
bright, curious child orphaned as a baby raised by adoring grandparents
dissolution of an American family - and an American way of life.
2000
House of Sand and Fog 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 Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
competing desires to the same small house in the California hills
ties that bind families and the secrets that can rend them apart
To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders.
post-Colonial Africa; silver-tongued tent revival preacher
love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife
loneliness of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment
rural Pennsylvania; lost soul trying to take on adulthood
rich and spirited historical novel [formula book from Spanish]
Appalachia; story of a marriage; an apocalyptic, hell-bent water
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
a harrowing court trial and the family's shattering downfall.
narrow-minded, eccentric people who are as tough as the farm lives
tragedy and triumph in the life of an African American family
two women exchange houses for the summer with consequences
about racism, family secrets, and everyone's search for love.
Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, is sentenced to life
forced to confront disturbing rumors about the man she loved
A parable of German guilt and atonement and a love story of power,
Jewel by Bret Lott
1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
What Looks Like Crazy 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
Paradiseby Toni Morrison
1997
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary 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
1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
when the sixth is born a "Mongolian Idiot,", their life changes
seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight
antagonism of the law, the hostility of the medical establishment
has tested positive for HIV; an abandoned crack baby she's taken into her heart
humanity's needs & fears, our aloneness, love & acceptance, struggle to survive
wonder, terror, heartache of her native Haiti; secrets no child should ever know
how assionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, finally ran away
tale of love and obsession; can anyone survive a love that consumes?
a void "where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose."
with TV they miss out on the all-important social and intellectual development
inspire your child is by encouraging her to explore a variety of activities
meet other children who are deliberately mean; alternative course of action
strong, tightly knit love story; "honesty of thought and eye and feeling"
Ellen's first eleven years are a long fight for survival. She never loses faith
sometimes simply choosing to resist the expected is an act of heroism
strong but vulnerable divorced woman; alcoholic father; unforgettable family
world of black artists and writers; the joys and burdens of a black mother
fourteen and full of contradictory feelings; And in the end there is a miracle
As a dwarf set apart, "otherness" has a corollary in refusing to be complicit
fantasies of melodramas and sitcoms; precursor to a radiant rebirth
women who are far from perfect; convey emotional lives with clarity, resonance
money-haunted, death-haunted house; he strikes out alone; revelation
far from the ideal mother and wife; many shades of gray