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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
1996-2002
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Toni Morrison |
Oprah Winfrey
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The television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey selects books for discussion
on The Oprah Show. The author appears with Oprah and others on the
show to discuss the selected book which is widely reported and advertized..
The publicity has consistently created best sellers. Four books by
the Nobel Prize winner, Toni Morrison, have been selected. Oprah Winfrey
has said that Toni Morrison "is the best writer living or dead, and I love
her work." The following table shows the date the selection was made, the
author and the book title.
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| April 5, 2002 |
Toni Morrison |
Sula |
| January 24, 2002 |
Anne-Marie MacDonald |
Fall on Your Knees |
| November 30, 2001 |
Rohinton Mistry |
A Fine Balance |
| September 24, 2001 |
Jonathan Franzen |
The Corrections |
| June 20, 2001 |
Lalita Tademy |
Cane River |
| May 16, 2001 |
Malika Oufkir |
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail |
| March 8, 2001 |
Gwyn Hyman Rubio |
Icy Sparks |
| January 24, 2001 |
Joyce Carol Oates |
We Were the Mulvaneys |
| November 16, 2000 |
Andre Dubus III |
House of Sand and Fog |
| September 27, 2000 |
Christina Schwarz |
Drowning Ruth |
| August 23, 2000 |
Elizabeth Berg |
Open House |
| June 23, 2000 |
Barbara Kingsolver |
The Poisonwood Bible |
| May 26, 2000 |
Sue Miller |
While I Was Gone |
| April 27, 2000 |
Toni Morrison |
The Bluest Eye |
| March 28, 2000 |
Tawni O'Dell |
Back Roads |
| February 17, 2000 |
Isabelle Allende |
Daughter of Fortune |
| January 18, 2000 |
Robert Morgan |
Gap Creek |
| December 3, 1999 |
Jane Hamilton |
A Map of the World |
| November 10, 1999 |
A. Manette Ansay |
Vinegar Hill |
| October 14, 1999 |
Breena Clarke |
River, Cross My Heart |
| September 4, 1999 |
Maeve Binchy |
Tara Road |
| June 15, 1999 |
Melinda Haynes |
Mother of Pearl |
| May 6, 1999 |
Janet Fitch |
White Oleander |
| March 31, 1999 |
Anita Shreve |
The Pilot's Wife |
| February 26, 1999 |
Bemhard Schlink |
The Reader |
| January 19, 1999 |
Bret Lott |
Jewel |
| December 7, 1998 |
Billie Letts |
Where the Heart Is |
| October 20, 1998 |
Chris Bohjalian |
Midwives |
| September 25, 1998 |
Pearl Cleage |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day |
| June 18, 1998 |
Wally Lamb |
I Know This Much Is True |
| May 22, 1998 |
Edwidge Danticat |
Breath, Eyes, Memory |
| April 9, 1998 |
Anna Quindlen |
Black and Blue |
| March 6, 1998 |
Alice Hoffman |
Here on Earth |
| January 16, 1998 |
Toni Morrison |
Paradise |
| December 8, 1997 |
Bill Cosby |
The Meanest Thing to Say, The Treasure Hunt, The Best way to Play |
| October 27, 1997 |
Kaye Gibbons |
Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman |
| September 22, 1997 |
Ernest Gaines |
A Lesson Before Dying |
| June 18, 1997 |
Mary McGarry Morris |
Songs in Ordinary Time |
| May 9, 1997 |
Maya Angelou |
The Heart of a Woman |
| April 8, 1997 |
Sheri Reynolds |
The Rapture of Canaan |
| February 28, 1997 |
Ursula Hegi |
Stones from the River |
| January 22, 1997 |
Wally Lamb |
She's Come Undone |
| November 18, 1996 |
Jane Hamilton |
The Book of Ruth |
| November 18, 1996 |
Toni Morrison |
Song of Solomon |
| September 17, 1996 |
Jacquelyn Mitchard |
The Deep End of the Ocean |