Oprah Book Club List 2023 of books which features in this year’s Oprah Book Club has now been released. Since 1996, Oprah Book Club has selected books that engender conversation, spark enlightenment, help launch emerging authors, and reacquaint us with the already prominent.
The main objective of selecting a book in Oprah Book Club List is to connect readers around a community of fellow bibliophiles. In this list, each pick is chosen by Oprah herself who delights in sharing books she loves with the club’s ever-growing audience.
Oprah Book Club List
Here is the complete list of 101 books selected in Oprah Book Club:-
- The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
- Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
- Bittersweet, by Susan Cain
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
- That Bird Has My Wings, by Jarvis Jay Masters
- Nightcrawling, by Leila Mottley
- Finding Me, by Viola Davis
- Penguin Life The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
- Bewilderment, by Richard Powers
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- Home, by Marilynne Robinson
- Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
- Jack, by Marilynne Robinson
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
- Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker
- American Dirt: A Novel, by Jeanine Cummins
- Olive, Again: A Novel, by Elizabeth Strout
- The Water Dancer: A Novel, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Becoming, by Michelle Obama
- The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton
- An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
- Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
- Love Warrior, by Glennon Doyle
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
- Ruby, by Cynthia Bond
- The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis
- Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
- Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
- A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle
- The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- Vintage Books USA Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- The Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
- Night, by Elie Wiesel
- A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
- The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
- Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- Sula, by Toni Morrison
- Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
- The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
- Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
- Stolen Lives, by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
- Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
- We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates
- House of Sand and Fog, 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 Eye, by Toni Morrison
- Back Roads, by Tawni O’Dell
- Daugher of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
- Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan
- 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
- 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
- The Best Way to Play, by Bill Cosby
- The Treasure Hunt, by Bill Cosby
- The Meanest Thing to Say, by Bill Cosby
- A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons
- Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
- A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
- The Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou
- Songs in Ordinary Time, by Mary McGarry Morris
- Berkley Books The Rapture of Canaan, by Sheri Reynolds
- Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
- She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
- The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton
- Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- The Deep End of the Ocean, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Oprah’s most recent pick, The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese, resonated deeply with Oprah. This book joins Nathan Harris’s Sweetness of Water, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers as Oprah’s Book Club picks. Along with this, many other titles—fiction and nonfiction alike – the club has spotlighted over the years. You’ll never forget these illuminating stories – just ask Oprah.
