📚Oprah's Book Club, 2023 to 2025

every pick since 2023, in order. some of these I finished in a weekend, some are still on my nightstand judging me. (extract - it's a long list)

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Bittersweet by Susan Cain

her first 2023 pick, about melancholy and longing as a kind of gift. more self-help adjacent than her usual fiction leans

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

the biggest one that year, a doorstop of a family saga in Kerala. worth the page count

Wellness by Nathan Hill

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

heaviest pick on this whole list, a reimagining of slavery through one enslaved woman's eyes. not a beach read, don't go in expecting one

The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin

Long Island by Colm Toibin

sequel to Brooklyn, years later. didn't need to have read the first one but it helps

Familiaris by David Wroblewski

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout again, this one folds in characters from three of her other books - no lore exam required, it still stands alone

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

start here if you're intimidated: under 120 pages, and the one I'd hand someone who says they don't have time to read

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

first time she's ever repicked a book. originally chose it in 2008, called it the most impactful book she'd read by a living author

Dream State by Eric Puchner

The Tell by Amy Griffin

Matriarch by Tina Knowles

Tina Knowles's memoir, Beyonce's mom. not what I expected to see on this list but it works

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

a novel about a self-driving car accident, oddly timely

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert

most recent one as of when I'm updating this - Gilbert's follow-up to Eat Pray Love territory but heavier

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