What Oprah Sells For the Publishing World

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  • * A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
  • * Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • * As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  • * Back Roads - Tawni O'Dell
  • * The Best Way To Play - Bill Cosby
  • * Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
  • * The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  • * The Book Of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
  • * Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
  • * Cane River - Lalita Tademy
  • * The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  • * Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
  • * Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
  • * The Deep End Of The Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • * Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
  • * East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
  • * Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
  • * Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • * A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  • * Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
  • * The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
  • * The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
  • * The Heart Of A Woman - Maya Angelou
  • * Here On Earth - Alice Hoffman
  • * House Of Sand And Fog - Andre Dubus III
  • * I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
  • * Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  • * Jewel - Bret Lott
  • * A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
  • * Light In August - William Faulkner
  • * A Map Of The World - Jane Hamilton
  • * The Meanest Thing To Say - Bill Cosby
  • * The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier
  • * Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
  • * Mother Of Pearl - Melinda Haynes
  • * One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • * Open House - Elizabeth Berg
  • * Paradise - Toni Morrison
  • * The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
  • * The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  • * The Rapture Of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds
  • * The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
  • * River, Cross My Heart - Breena Clarke
  • * She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
  • * Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  • * Songs In Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris
  • * The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
  • * Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir
  • * Stones From The River - Ursula Hegi
  • * Sula - Toni Morrison
  • * Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
  • * The Treasure Hunt - Bill Cosby
  • * Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
  • * A Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
  • * We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
  • * What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day - Pearl Cleage
  • * Where The Heart Is - Billie Letts
  • * While I Was Gone - Sue Miller
  • * White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Author Comments: 

I was ahead of the curve as I had read Deep End of the Ocean before she had her book club underway.

Other than the Kaye Gibbons work all the others were read outside of the framework of her suggesting them to her television audience.