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Our Top Picks from Oprah’s Book Club

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

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    Caste

    by Isabel Wilkerson

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    $32.00

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    Deacon King Kong

    by James McBride

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    $17.00

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    Hidden Valley Road

    by Robert Kolker

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    $17.00

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    Olive, Again

    by Elizabeth Strout

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    $18.00

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    The Water Dancer

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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    $18.00

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    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama

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    $18.99

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    Behold the Dreamers

    by Imbolo Mbue

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    $17.00

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    The Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead

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    $16.95

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    Ruby

    by Cynthia Bond

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    $16.00

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    The Invention of Wings

    by Sue Monk Kidd

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    $17.00

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    The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

    by Ayana Mathis

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    $16.95

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    The Bluest Eye

    by Toni Morrison

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    $14.95

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    We Were the Mulvaneys

    by Joyce Carol Oates

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    $17.00

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    A Map of the World

    by Jane Hamilton

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    $15.95

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    East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck

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    $18.00

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    Open House

    by Elizabeth Berg

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    $17.00

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    Tara Road

    by Maeve Binchy

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    $18.00

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    The Sound and the Fury

    by William Faulkner

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    $23.00

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    Rapture of Canaan

    by Sheri Reynolds

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    The Reader

    by Bernhard Schlink

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    $16.00

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    A Lesson Before Dying

    by Ernest J. Gaines

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    $15.00

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    While I Was Gone

    by Sue Miller

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    $17.00

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    Here on Earth

    by Alice Hoffman

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    $16.00

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    As I Lay Dying

    by William Faulkner

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    $14.95

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    Back Roads

    by Tawni O’Dell

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    $15.00

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    Wild

    by Cheryl Strayed

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    $16.95

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    A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens

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    $24.00

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    Sula

    by Toni Morrison

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    $16.00

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    Icy Sparks

    by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

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    $17.00

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    Midwives

    by Chris Bohjalian

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    $16.95

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    Paradise

    by Toni Morrison

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    $16.95

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    Great Expectations

    by Charles Dickens

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    $25.00

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    The Pillars of the Earth

    by Ken Follett

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    $40.00

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    Love in the Time of Cholera

    by Gabriel García Márquez

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    $16.95

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    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

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    $16.95

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    Light in August

    by William Faulkner

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    $23.00

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    Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

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    $20.00

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    by Carson McCullers

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    $20.00

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    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry

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    $18.00

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    Black and Blue

    by Anna Quindlen

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    $17.00

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    The Heart of a Woman

    by Maya Angelou

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    $18.00

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    The Book of Ruth

    by Jane Hamilton

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    $16.95

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    Song of Solomon

    by Toni Morrison

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    $16.00

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    The Deep End of the Ocean

    by Jacquelyn Mitchard

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    $16.00

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