The Oprah Winfrey Book Club has some of our reading group's favorite books on it's list. We also have discovered an assortment of books over the years through our reading groups and have put together some lists for you to peruse over, if you're looking for new ideas.  We also have started building out our resources area to share the reading guides we've collected and used in our discussion groups.  If you're looking to join an online book club or form a book club in your community, check out the tips we have for you in the Starting A Book Club section.

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Complete List of Books Chosen for Oprah's Book Club

If you're just getting started with your book club or with your own personal reading adventure, a great place to begin finding books others have found enjoyable are the selections Oprah Winfrey has made over the past 10 years for Oprah's Book Club.

You'll find the complete list of books she has recommended to millions of readers listed here, categorized by year.

2007:

  • The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2006:

  • Night by Elie Wiesel

2005:

  • A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • A Light in August by William Faulkner

2004:

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcarquez
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

2003:

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2002:

  • Sula by Toni Morrison
  • Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

2001:

  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • Cane River by Lalita Tademy
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
  • Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  • We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

2000:

  • House of Sand and Fog by 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 Eyes by Toni Morrison
  • Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
  • Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

1999:

  • 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 by Janet Fitch
  • The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  • Jewel by Bret Lott

1998:

  • Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
  • Midwives by Chris 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

1997:

  • The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby

  • The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
  • The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
  • Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  • A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • Songs in Ordinary Time by Marry 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

1996:

  • The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • The Deep End of the Ocean by by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Whether you're just starting your own book club or looking for ways to jumpstart a reading group that is well underway, you'll find great tips and reading lists on our book club site, inspired by the club we formed to participate in Oprah's Book Club. NY Times bestseller list and other books that are popular this year.

Complete List Of Oprah's Book Club