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Oprah Book Club Selections by Year

1996

Song of Solomon
   By Toni Morrison

The Deep End of the Ocean
   By Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Book of Ruth
   By Jane Hamilton

1997

A Lesson Before Dying
   By Ernest J. Gaines

A Virtuous Woman
   By Kaye Gibbons

Ellen Foster
   By Kaye Gibbons

She’s Come Undone
   By Wally Lamb

Songs In Ordinary Time
   By Mary McGarry Morris

Stones from the River
   By Ursula Hegi

The Best Way to Play
   By Bill Cosby

The Heart of a Woman
   By Maya Angelou

The Meanest Thing to Say
   By Bill Cosby

The Rapture of Canaan
   By Sheri Reynolds

The Treasure Hunt
   By Bill Cosby

1998

Black and Blue
   By Anna Quindlen

Breath, Eyes, Memory
   By Edwidge Danticat

Here on Earth
   By Alice Hoffman

I Know This Much Is True
   By Wally Lamb

Midwives
   By Chris Bohjalian

Paradise
   By Toni Morrison

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
   By Pearl Cleage

Where the Heart Is
   By Billie Letts

1999

A Map of the World
   By Jane Hamilton

Jewel
   By Bret Lott

Mother of Pearl
   By Melinda Haynes

River, Cross My Heart
   By Breena Clarke

Tara Road
   By Maeve Binchy

The Pilot’s Wife
   By Anita Shreve

The Reader
   By Bernhard Schlink

Vinegar Hill
   By A. Manette Ansay

White Oleander
   By Janet Fitch

2000

Back Roads
   By Tawni O’Dell

Daughter of Fortune
   By Isabel Allende

Drowning Ruth
   By Christina Schwarz

Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage
   By Robert Morgan

House of Sand and Fog
   By Andre Dubus III

Open House
   By Elizabeth Berg

The Bluest Eye
   By Toni Morrison

The Poisonwood Bible
   By Barbara Kingsolver

While I Was Gone
   By Sue Miller

2001

A Fine Balance
   By Rohinton Mistry

Cane River
   By Lalita Tademy

Icy Sparks
   By Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
   By Malika Oufkir

The Corrections
   By Jonathan Franzen

We Were the Mulvaneys
   By Joyce Carol Oates

2002

Fall on Your Knees
   By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sula
   By Toni Morrison

2003

Cry, the Beloved Country
   By Alan Paton

East of Eden
   By John Steinbeck

2004

Anna Karenina
   By Leo Tolstoy

One Hundred Years of Solitude
   By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
   By Carson McCullers

2005

A Million Little Pieces
   By James Frey

As I Lay Dying
   By William Faulkner

Light in August
   By William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury
   By William Faulkner

2006

Night
   By Elie Wiesel