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1 - Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Random House
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless... |
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2 - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker · Doubleday
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work... |
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3 - American Dirt: A Novel
Jeanine Cummins · Flatiron Books
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly... |
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4 - Olive, Again: A Novel
Elizabeth Strout · Random House
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions.
"Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met,... |
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5 - The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates · One World
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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
"This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes... |
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6 - Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown Publishing Group
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White... |
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7 - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only... |
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8 - An American Marriage: A Novel
Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
"Haunting . . . Beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable." --USA Today
"A... |
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9 - Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Imbolo Mbue · Random House
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant... |
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10 - The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Cora is a slave on a cotton... |
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11 - Ruby: A Novel
Cynthia Bond · Crown Publishing Group
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection
The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her - this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
Ephram Jennings... |
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12 - The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd · Viking
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The #1 New York Times bestseller of hope, daring, and the quest for freedom taken on by two unforgettable American women, from the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees.
"A remarkable novel that heightened my sense of what it meant to be a woman - slave... |
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13 - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis · Knopf
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923,... |
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14 - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · Alfred A. Knopf
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... |
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15 - A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels
Charles Dickens · Penguin Books
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Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature--together in one extraordinary volume.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives... |
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16 - Freedom: A Novel
Jonathan Franzen · Farrar
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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually... |
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17 - Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan · Little
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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend... |
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19 - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · Plume
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Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous... |
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20 - The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · New American Library
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Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz. The spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known... |
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21 - Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Vintage
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"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek
The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually... |
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22 - Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides · Picador
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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent... |
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23 - The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy · Vintage Books
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack... |
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24 - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Sidney Poitier · HarperSanFrancisco
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"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long... |
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25 - Night
Elie Wiesel · Hill and Wang; Revised edition
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elies wife and frequent translator, presents... |
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