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From classic to modern, Tolstoy to Angelou, revisit the authors and books that inspired Oprah’s Book Club.

  1. 1

    Caste

    by Isabel Wilkerson

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  2. 2

    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride

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  3. 3

    Hidden Valley Road

    by Robert Kolker

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  4. 4

    Olive, Again

    by Elizabeth Strout

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  5. 5

    The Water Dancer

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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  6. 6

    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama

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  7. 7

    Behold the Dreamers

    by Imbolo Mbue

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  8. 8

    The Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead

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  9. 9

    Ruby

    by Cynthia Bond

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  10. 10

    The Invention of Wings

    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  11. 11

    The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

    by Ayana Mathis

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  12. 12

    The Bluest Eye

    by Toni Morrison

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  13. 13

    We Were the Mulvaneys

    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  14. 14

    A Map of the World

    by Jane Hamilton

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  15. 15

    East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck

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  16. 16

    Open House

    by Elizabeth Berg

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  17. 17

    Tara Road

    by Maeve Binchy

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  18. 18

    The Sound and the Fury

    by William Faulkner

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  19. 19

    Rapture of Canaan

    by Sheri Reynolds

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  20. 20

    The Reader

    by Bernhard Schlink

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  21. 21

    A Lesson Before Dying

    by Ernest J. Gaines

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  22. 22

    While I Was Gone

    by Sue Miller

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  23. 23

    Here on Earth

    by Alice Hoffman

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  24. 24

    As I Lay Dying

    by William Faulkner

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  25. 25

    Back Roads

    by Tawni O’Dell

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  26. 26

    Wild

    by Cheryl Strayed

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  27. 27

    A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens

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  28. 28

    Sula

    by Toni Morrison

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  29. 29

    Icy Sparks

    by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

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  30. 30

    Midwives

    by Chris Bohjalian

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  31. 31

    Paradise

    by Toni Morrison

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  32. 32

    Great Expectations

    by Charles Dickens

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  33. 33

    The Pillars of the Earth

    by Ken Follett

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  34. 34

    Love in the Time of Cholera

    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  35. 35

    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

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  36. 36

    Light in August

    by William Faulkner

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  37. 37

    Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

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  38. 38

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    by Carson McCullers

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  39. 39

    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry

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  40. 40

    Black and Blue

    by Anna Quindlen

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  41. 41

    The Heart of a Woman

    by Maya Angelou

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  42. 42

    The Book of Ruth

    by Jane Hamilton

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  43. 43

    Song of Solomon

    by Toni Morrison

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  44. 44

    The Deep End of the Ocean

    by Jacquelyn Mitchard

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