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Oprah's Book Club Complete List of Titles Since 1996

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.
Oprahs Book Club Complete List since 1996

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 Hardin
Long Island by Colm Tóibín

2023

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Hello 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 Beck
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 Way of Integrity by Martha Beck Oprahs Book Club Title 2022

2021

Bewilderment by Richard Powers
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

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Title 2021

2020

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins


2019

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Dancer by Ta-nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer by Ta-nehisi Coates Oprahs Book Club 2.0 title 2019

2018

Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Becoming by Michelle Obama Oprahs Book Club title 2018

2017

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue


2016

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead


2015

Ruby by Cynthia Bond


2014

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Title 2014


2012

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wild by Cheryl Strayed Oprahs Book Club Title 2011

Oprah's Book Club


2010

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 2010 Title Oprah's Book Club

2009

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan


2008

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Oprah's Book Club Title 2008

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 Sir Sidney Poitier

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Oprah's Book Club Title 2007
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Oprah's Book Club Title 2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Oprah's Book Club Title 2007

2006

Night by Elie Wiesel


2005

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The 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. Buck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Selected Oprah's Book Club Title 2004

2003

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2002

Sula by Toni Morrison
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald Oprahs Book Club Title 2002


2001

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Oprah's Book Club Title 2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Oprah's Book Club Title 2001
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Oprah's Book Club Title 2001


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
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Oprah's Book Club title 2000
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Oprah's Book Club title 2000
The House of Wind and Fog by Andre Dubus III Oprah's Book Club title 2000

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
Jewel by Bret Lott
White Oleander by Janet Fitch Oprahs Book Club Title 1999
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve Oprahs Book Club Title 1999
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink Oprahs Book Club Title 1999

1998

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
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


Where the Heart is by Billie Letts 1998 Selection for Oprahs Book Club
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb 1998 Selection for Oprahs Book Club
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman a 1998 Selection for Oprahs Book Club


1997

The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
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


A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines 1997 Oprah's Complete Book Club List of Titles
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger #94 on Whitcoulls Top 100 Book Lists for 2021-2022

1996

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
The Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 1996 Selection for Oprahs Book Club
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton 1996 Selection for Oprahs Book Club
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard 1996 Selection for Oprahs Book Club



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