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Oprah’s Book Club Selections

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Books chosen by Oprah Winfrey for viewers of her daytime talk show. For more information on the book club, please visit her website.

In 2003, Oprah reformatted her Book Club from popular new items to classic titles. Books in the "Return to the Classics" club are listed at the top. Selections from the older popular format are listed below. Titles are listed alphabetically.

Listed below are winners, with catalog links provided to those titles owned by Jacksonville Public Library. Titles which are greyed out may be requested through InterLibrary Loan, or recommended for purchase.

2007 Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006 Night by Elie Wiesel
2005 A Light in August by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
2004 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
2003 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
  The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
  Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
  The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
  Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
  Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
  House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  Jewel by Bret Lott
  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
  The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
  Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
  Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
  Open House by Elizabeth Berg
  Paradise by Toni Morrison
  The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
  The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
  She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
  Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
  Stones from the River by Usula Hegi
  Sula by Toni Morrison
  Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
  The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
  Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
  What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
  Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
  While I was Gone by Sue Miller
  White Oleander by Janet Fitch
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