Oprah’s Book Club List 1996-

Norfolk Public Library

June, 16 2024 02:02:15

  1. Ward, Jesmyn -  Let Us Descend (9781982104498)
  2. Hill, Nathan -  Wellness (9780593536117)
  3. Mitchard, Jacquelyn -  The Deep End of the Ocean (670865796)
  4. Morrison, Toni -  Song of Solomon (9781400033423)
  5. Hamilton, Jane -  The Book of Ruth (9780385265706)
  6. Lamb, Wally -  She's Come Undone (9780671003753)
  7. Hegi, Ursula -  Stones from the River (9780684844770)
  8. Reynolds, Sheri -  The Rapture of Canaan (9780425162446)
  9. Angelou, Maya -  The Heart of a Woman (9780375500725)
  10. Morris, Marry Mcgarry -  Songs in Ordinary Time (140244824)
  11. Gaines, Ernest J -  A Lesson Before Dying (9780679455615)
  12. Cosby, Bill -  The Meanest Thing to Say (590137549)
  13. Gibbons, Kaye -  A Virtuous Woman (945575092)
  14. Gibbons, Kaye -  Ellen Foster (9781565122055)
  15. Morrison, Toni -  Paradise (9780804169882)
  16. Hoffman, Alice -  Here on Earth (9780425167311)
  17. Quindlen, Anna -  Black and Blue (9780812980493)
  18. Danticat, Edwidge -  Breath, Eyes, Memory (9780375705045)
  19. Lamb, Wally -  I Know This Much Is True (9780061469084)
  20. Cleage, Pearl -  What Looks LIke Crazy On an Ordinary Day (9780061710384)
  21. Bohjalian, Chris -  Midwives (9780375706776)
  22. Letts, Billie -  Where the Heart Is (9780446672214)
  23. Lott, Bret -  Jewel (9780671740382)
  24. Schlink, Bernhard -  The Reader (9780375707971)
  25. Shreve, Anita -  The Pilot's Wife (9780316601955)
  26. Fitch, Janet -  White Oleander (9780316284950)
  27. Haynes, Melinda -  Mother of Pearl (9780743431033)
  28. Binchy, Maeve -  Tara Road (9780385333955)
  29. Clarke, Breena -  River, Cross My Heart (9780316899987)
  30. Ansay, A Manette -  Vinegar Hill (9780380730131)
  31. Hamilton, Jane -  A Map of the World (9780385473118)
  32. Morgan, Robert -  Gap Creek (9781565122420)
  33. Allende, Isabel -  Daughter of Fortune (9780060194918)
  34. O'dell, Tawni -  Back Roads (9780670894185)
  35. Morrison, Toni -  The Bluest Eye (9780375411557)
  36. Miller, Sue -  While I Was Gone (9780345443281)
  37. Kingsolver, Barbara -  The Poisonwood Bible (9780060175405)
  38. Elizabeth, Berg, -  Open House (9780345435163)
  39. Schwarz, Christina -  Drowning Ruth (9780345439109)
  40. Dubus, Andre -  House of Sand and Fog (9780393046977)
  41. Oates, Joyce Carol -  We Were the Mulvaneys (9780452282827)
  42. Rubio, Gwyn Hyman -  Icy Sparks (9780142000205)
  43. Oufkir, Malika -  Stolen Lives (786868619)
  44. Tademy, Lalita -  Cane River (9780446527323)
  45. Franzen, Jonathan -  The Corrections (9780374100124)
  46. Mistry, Rohinton -  A Fine Balance (9781400030651)
  47. Macdonald, Ann-marie -  Fall On Your Knees (9780743237185)
  48. Morrison, Toni -  Sula (9781400033430)
  49. Steinbeck, John -  East of Eden, John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (9780142004234)
  50. Paton, Alan -  Cry, the Beloved Country (9780743262170)
  51. Márquez, Gabriel García -  One Hundred Years of Solitude (9780060740450)
  52. Mccullers, Carson -  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (9781557360861)
  53. Tolstoy, Leo -  Anna Karenina (9781509827787)
  54. Buck, Pearl S. -  The Good Earth (9780743272933)
  55. Faulkner, William -  As I Lay Dying (9780804170413)
  56. Faulkner, William -  The Sound and the Fury (9780679600176)
  57. Faulkner, William -  Light in August (9780679642480)
  58. Frey, James -  A Million Little Pieces (9780307276902)
  59. Wiesel, Elie -  Night (9780374221997)
  60. Poitier, Sidney -  The Measure of a Man (9780061357916)
  61. Mccarthy, Cormac -  The Road (9780307265432)
  62. Eugenides, Jeffrey -  Middlesex (9780312427733)
  63. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia -  Love in the Time of Cholera (9780307389732)
  64. Follett, Ken -  The Pillars of the Earth (9780688046590)
  65. Tolle, Eckhart -  A New Earth (9780452289963)
  66. Wroblewski, David -  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (9780061374227)
  67. Akpan, Uwem -  Say You're One of Them (9780316086363)
  68. Franzen, Jonathan -  Freedom (9780374158460)
  69. Dickens, Charles -  Great Expectations (9780143123798)
  70. Dickens, Charles -  A Tale of Two Cities (9780451530578)
  71. Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 In 2012, O, The Oprah Magazine, teamed up with TV channel Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) to launch a new, online version of what had been the very influential monthly pick on Oprah’s own wildly popular show.
  72. Strayed, Cheryl -  Wild (9780307476074)
  73. Mathis, Ayana -  The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (9780385350280)
  74. Kidd, Sue Monk -  The Invention of Wings (9780670024780)
  75. Bond, Cynthia -  Ruby (9780804139090)
  76. Whitehead, Colson -  The Underground Railroad (9780385542364)
  77. Melton, Glennon Doyle -  Love Warrior (9781250075727)
  78. Mbue, Imbolo -  Behold the Dreamers (9780812998481)
  79. Jones, Tayari -  An American Marriage (9781616201340)
  80. Hinton, Anthony Ray -  The Sun Does Shine (9781250124715)
  81. Obama, Michelle -  Becoming (9781524763138)
  82. Coates, Ta-nehisi -  The Water Dancer (9780399590597)
  83. Strout, Elizabeth -  Olive, Again (9780812996548)
  84. Kolker, Robert -  Hidden Valley Road (9780385543767)
  85. Mcbride, James -  Deacon King Kong (9780735216723)
  86. Wilkerson, Isabel -  Caste (9780593230251)
  87. Robinson, Marilynne -  Home (9780312428549)
  88. Robinson, Marilynne -  Lila (9780374187613)
  89. Robinson, Marilynne -  Jack (9780374279301)
  90. Robinson, Marilynne -  Gilead (9780374153892)
  91. Harris, Nathan -  The Sweetness of Water (9780316461276)
  92. Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne -  The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (9780062942937)
  93. Powers, Richard -  Bewilderment (9780393881141)
  94. Beck, Martha -  The Way of Integrity (9781984881489)
  95. Davis, Viola -  Finding Me (9780063037328)
  96. Mottley, Leila -  Nightcrawling (9780593318935)
  97. Masters, Jarvis Jay -  That Bird Has My Wings (9780061730481)
  98. Kingsolver, Barbara -  Demon Copperhead (9780063251922)
  99. Cain, Susan -  Bittersweet (9780451499783)
  100. Napolitano, Ann -  Hello Beautiful (9780593243732)
  101. Verghese, Abraham -  The Covenant of Water (9780802162175)
  102. Hardin, Lara Love -  The Many Lives of Mama Love (9781668069608)
  103. Wroblewski, David -  Familiaris (9798212194297)

  104. Controversies

    Controversial books from the orginal list are still listed above and by the O, the Oprah Magazine website.  These were proposed for the 2.0 list and recinded:  American Dirt by Jeannie Cummins and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell.


  105. More: by and about Oprah Winfrey
  106. Rooney, Kathleen -  Reading with Oprah (9781557288738)
  107. Kelley, Kitty -  Oprah (9780307394866)
  108. Davis, Deborah -  The Oprah Winfrey Show (9781419700590)
  109. Winfrey, Oprah -  The Path Made Clear (1250307503)
  110. Winfrey, Oprah -  Finding Oprah's Roots - Finding Your Own (9781415729250)