Picks from Oprah's Book Club

Cry, the Beloved CountryCry, the Beloved CountryAlan Paton Rating: 4.3
310 customer reviews
Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and…
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Cane RiverCane RiverLalita Tademy Rating: 4.5
459 customer reviews
It is on a medium Creole plantation owned by a family named Derbanne that the stories of four astonishing women who battled vast injustices to create a legacy of hope…
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A Million Little PiecesA Million Little PiecesJames Frey Rating: 4.2
3252 customer reviews
By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the…
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We Were the MulvaneysWe Were the MulvaneysJoyce Carol Oates Rating: 3.4
1105 customer reviews
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in…
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Anna KareninaAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy Rating: 4.1
1810 customer reviews
Tolstoy's masterpiece begins, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the story of the unhappy family of Anna…
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A Virtuous WomanA Virtuous WomanKaye Gibbons Rating: 3.8
121 customer reviews
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was a carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant…
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White OleanderWhite OleanderJanet Fitch Rating: 4.3
1541 customer reviews
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her…
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The CorrectionsThe CorrectionsJonathan Franzen Rating: 3.3
1213 customer reviews
After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease,…
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Fall On Your KneesFall On Your KneesAnn-Marie MacDonald Rating: 4.0
1319 customer reviews
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives, even destroy them. Set…
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Tara RoadTara RoadMaeve Binchy Rating: 4.5
656 customer reviews
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny…
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The Sound and the FuryThe Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner Rating: 4.2
390 customer reviews
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling", the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her…
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Drowning RuthDrowning RuthChristina Schwarz Rating: 4.0
783 customer reviews
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the…
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Icy SparksIcy SparksGwyn Hyman Rubio Rating: 4.1
604 customer reviews
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard for 10-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan suffering from undiagnosed Tourette…
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Gap CreekGap CreekRobert Morgan Rating: 3.8
416 customer reviews
There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Greek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that times she's not sure she can stop. She is the one…
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A Lesson Before DyingA Lesson Before DyingErnest J. Gaines Rating: 4.0
702 customer reviews
Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced…
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The Heart Is a Lonely HunterThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers Rating: 4.1
454 customer reviews
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as…
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Open HouseOpen HouseElizabeth Berg Rating: 3.8
395 customer reviews
Samantha Morrow's husband has left her, and now she must strive to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by…
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Ellen FosterEllen FosterKaye Gibbons Rating: 4.0
748 customer reviews
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale…
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