A Comprehensive Guide to All 100 Books in Oprah’s Book Club

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March 14, 2023 at 8:29 AM

A Comprehensive Guide to All 100 Books in Oprah’s Book Club

100) <i>Hello Beautiful</i>, by Ann Napolitano

98) <i>Demon Copperhead</i>, by Barbara Kingsolver

97) <i>That Bird Has My Wings</i>, by Jarvis Jay Masters

96) <i>Nightcrawling,</i> by Leila Mottley

94) <i>The Way of Integrity</i> by Martha Beck

93) <i>Bewilderment,</i> by Richard Powers

92) <i>The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,</i> by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

91) <i>The Sweetness of Water,</i> by Nathan Harris

90) <i>Gilead</i>, by Marilynne Robinson

86) <i>Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,</i> by Isabel Wilkerson

85) <i>Deacon King Kong,</i> by James McBride

84) <i>Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family,</i> by Robert Kolker

83) <i>American Dirt: A Novel,</i> by Jeanine Cummins

82) <i>Olive, Again: A Novel,</i> by Elizabeth Strout

81) <i>The Water Dancer: A Novel,</i> by Ta-Nehisi Coates

79) <i>The Sun Does Shine,</i> by Anthony Ray Hinton

78) <i>An American Marriage,</i> by Tayari Jones

77) <i>Behold the Dreamers,</i> by Imbolo Mbue

76) <i>Love Warrior,</i> by Glennon Doyle

75) <i>The Underground Railroad,</i> by Colson Whitehead

73) <i>The Invention of Wings,</i> by Sue Monk Kidd

72) <i>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,</i> by Ayana Mathis

70) <i>A Tale of Two Cities,</i> by Charles Dickens

69) <i>Great Expectations,</i> by Charles Dickens

67) <i>Say You're One of Them,</i> by Uwem Akpan

66) <i>The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,</i> by David Wroblewski

65) <i>A New Earth,</i> by Eckhart Tolle

64) <i>The Pillars of the Earth,</i> by Ken Follett

63) <i>Love in the Time of Cholera,</i> by Gabriel García Márquez

62) <i>Middlesex,</i> by Jeffrey Eugenides

60) <i>The Measure of a Man,</i> by Sidney Poitier

58) <i>A Million Little Pieces,</i> by James Frey

57) <i>Light in August,</i> by William Faulkner

56) <i>The Sound and the Fury,</i> by William Faulkner

55) <i>As I Lay Dying,</i> by William Faulkner

54) <i>The Good Earth,</i> by Pearl S. Buck

53) <i>Anna Karenina,</i> by Leo Tolstoy

52) <i>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,</i> by Carson McCullers

51) <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude,</i> by Gabriel García Márquez

50) <i>Cry, the Beloved Country,</i> by Alan Paton

49) <i>East of Eden,</i> by John Steinbeck

47) <i>Fall on Your Knees,</i> by Ann-Marie MacDonald

46) <i>A Fine Balance,</i> by Rohinton Mistry

45) <i>The Corrections,</i> by Jonathan Franzen

43) <i>Stolen Lives,</i> by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi

42) <i>Icy Sparks,</i> by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

41) <i>We Were the Mulvaneys,</i> by Joyce Carol Oates

40) <i>House of Sand and Fog,</i> by Andre Dubus III

39) <i>Drowning Ruth,</i> by Christina Schwarz

38) <i>Open House,</i> by Elizabeth Berg

37) <i>The Poisonwood Bible,</i> by Barbara Kingsolver

36) <i>While I Was Gone,</i> by Sue Miller

35) <i>The Bluest Eye,</i> by Toni Morrison

33) <i>Daugher of Fortune,</i> by Isabel Allende

31) <i>A Map of the World,</i> by Jane Hamilton

30) <i>Vinegar Hill,</i> by A. Manette Ansay

29) <i>River, Cross My Heart,</i> by Breena Clarke

27) <i>Mother of Pearl,</i> by Melinda Haynes

26) <i>White Oleander,</i> by Janet Fitch

25) <i>The Pilot's Wife,</i> by Anita Shreve

24) <i>The Reader,</i> by Bernhard Schlink

22) <i>Where the Heart Is,</i> by Billie Letts

20) <i>What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day,</i> by Pearl Cleage

19) <i>I Know This Much Is True,</i> by Wally Lamb

18) <i>Breath, Eyes, Memory,</i> by Edwidge Danticat

17) <i>Black and Blue,</i> by Anna Quindlen

16) <i>Here on Earth,</i> by Alice Hoffman

14) <i>The Best Way to Play,</i> by Bill Cosby

13) <i>The Treasure Hunt,</i> by Bill Cosby

12) <i>The Meanest Thing to Say,</i> by Bill Cosby

11) <i>A Virtuous Woman,<i> by Kaye Gibbons </i></i>

10) <i>Ellen Foster,</i> by Kaye Gibbons

9) <i>A Lesson Before Dying,</i> by Ernest J. Gaines

8) <i>The Heart of a Woman,</i> by Maya Angelou

7) <i>Songs in Ordinary Time,</i> by Mary McGarry Morris

6) <i>The Rapture of Canaan,</i> by Sheri Reynolds

5) <i>Stones from the River,</i> by Ursula Hegi

4) <i>She's Come Undone,</i> by Wally Lamb

3) <i>The Book of Ruth,</i> by Jane Hamilton

2) <i>Song of Solomon,</i> by Toni Morrison

1) <i>The Deep End of the Ocean,</i> by Jacquelyn Mitchard

A Comprehensive Guide to All 100 Books in Oprah’s Book Club

Since 1996, Oprah’s Book Club has selected books that engender conversation, spark enlightenment, help launch emerging authors, and reacquaint us with the already prominent. The goal? To connect readers around a community of fellow bibliophiles. The secret sauce? Each pick is chosen by Oprah herself, who delights in sharing books she loves with the ever-growing OBC audience. Her most recent pick, Bittersweet, by Susan Cain, resonated deeply with Oprah. This book joins Nathan Harris’s Sweetness of Water, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers as Oprah’s Book Club picks, as well as the many other titles—fiction and nonfiction alike—OBC has spotlighted over the years. You’ll never forget these illuminating stories—just ask Oprah.

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