The Oprah Winfrey Show aired its final episode on Wednesday 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 on Wednesday. During that time, Oprah recommended 70 books, and today I give you a complete list of those books. Here they are in alphabetical order by title.
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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