Oprah's Book Club provides a handy reading list to help you select top fiction titles to read. The collection is largely literary fiction titles topped up with a few biographies. If you would like to see all the book titles selected for Oprah's Book Club and Oprah's Book Club 2.0 read on.
Oprah's Book Club began recommending book titles to read back in 1996 and continued until 2010. Over the course of those fifteen years she added some 70 titles to her list, most being quality contemporary fiction with a sprinkling of the classics and historical fiction and even a few thought provoking non-fiction titles too. In 2012 after a hiatus of two years Oprah launched Oprah's Book Club 2.0 which is a collection of titles that speak to her and which she has hand picked.
The complete list of Oprah's Book Club books titles since its inception is set out below:
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Water Dancer by Ta-nehisi Coates
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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 Sir Sidney Poitier
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
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
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
Jewel by Bret Lott
Midwives by Chris Bohjalians
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleagey
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
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Best Way to Play by Bill Crosby
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Crosby
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
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
The Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Oprah's Book Club began recommending book titles to read back in 1996 and continued until 2010. Over the course of those fifteen years she added some 70 titles to her list, most being quality contemporary fiction with a sprinkling of the classics and historical fiction and even a few thought provoking non-fiction titles too. In 2012 after a hiatus of two years Oprah launched Oprah's Book Club 2.0 which is a collection of titles that speak to her and which she has hand picked.
The complete list of Oprah's Book Club books titles since its inception is set out below:
Oprah's Book Club 2.0
2024
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love HardinLong Island by Colm Tóibín
2023
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan CainHello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
2022
The Way of Integrity by Martha BeckFinding Me by Viola Davis
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2021
Bewilderment by Richard PowersThe Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
2020
Caste by Isabel WilkersonDeacon King Kong by James McBride
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
2019
Olive, Again by Elizabeth StroutThe Water Dancer by Ta-nehisi Coates
2018
Becoming by Michelle ObamaThe Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue2016
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle MeltonThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2015
Ruby by Cynthia Bond2014
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd2012
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana MathisWild by Cheryl Strayed
Oprah's Book Club
2010
Great Expectations by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2009
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David WroblewskiA New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sir Sidney Poitier
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2006
Night by Elie Wiesel2005
A Million Little Pieces by James FreyThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan PatonEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
2002
Sula by Toni MorrisonFall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
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2000
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus IIIDrowning 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
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1999
A Map of the World by Jane HamiltonVinegar 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
Jewel by Bret Lott
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1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie LettsMidwives by Chris Bohjalians
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleagey
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
Paradise by Toni Morrison
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1997
The Treasure Hunt by Bill CosbyThe Best Way to Play by Bill Crosby
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Crosby
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
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1996
She's Come Undone - Wally LambThe Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
The Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
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If you would like to view other reading lists of hand picked book titles check out Recommended Reading Lists here.
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