Oprah's Book Club (thing)

Oprah Winfrey choses books to promote on her show. Most of these books are considered emotionally powerful, or feel good books. Books that she endorses have instant increases in sales and readership. When I worked in a bookstore we had a special section for Oprah books.

Books she has endorsed:

• The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• The Meanest Thing to Say: Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers by Bill Cosby, Varnette P. Honeywood (Illustrator)
• The Treasure Hunt: Little Bill Books for Beginning Readers by Bill Cosby, Varnette P. Honeywood (Illustrator)
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
• 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
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Midwives: A Novel by Chris A. Bohjalian
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• 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
• 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 : A Novel by Janet Fitch
• The Pilot's Wife : A Novel by Anita Shreve
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
• Jewel by Bret Lott
• 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, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
• Gap Creek : A Novel by Robert Morgan
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• Stolen Lives : Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir, et al
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy