In 1996,
The Oprah Winfrey Show introduced Oprah’s Book Club – and the publishing world has never been the same.
Since Oprah selected her first work,
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, books – fiction, non-fiction, troubled memoirs – have skyrocketed to popularity. And the episodes in which Oprah discussed the book, typically with the author present, are some of the most popular interviews the talk show host has conducted.
Below, you will find titles chosen in 1997:
Little Bill and his friends, avid fans of the television show
Space Explorers, clamor to get the video game version, but they find that they have more fun using their imagination while playing outside.
On a rainy, cold day Little Bill comes to appreciate his unique ability to share stories with others. Color illustrations accompany the text.
When a new student introduces the game of who can say the meanest thing about someone else, Little Bill doesn't want to play. Feeling pressured to join his peers in this activity, Little Bill turns to his father for advice.
A short, unsentimental novel about a dying woman and her husband's attempts to come to grips with being a widower.
Ellen witnesses her beloved mother's suicide and is forced to live with her alcoholic father. Unable to stand his behavior, she runs away to live with her art teacher. A painful story of a young girl's search for identity and love.
In this story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s, Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked to visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and is sentenced to hang.
This is the story of Marie Fermoyle, an Irishwoman living in Atkinson, Vermont. Lonely, ambitious for her teenage children, she is drawn to the stranger Omar Duvall.
This is the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, which describes the beginning of her writing career and the years when she first became politically active, relating encounters with the Harlem Writers Guild and Martin Luther King, Jr.
A young girl, raised in a religious cult founded by her grandfather, struggles to obtain freedom and independence of mind during her adolescence.
A German dwarf named Trudi - the product of an adulterous affair - is the narrator of this story that explores the workings of guilt and hatred. The town she lives in, and whose secrets she recounts, is a microcosm of Germany itself both before and after World War II.
In his first novel, Wally Lamb creates a heroine - Dolores Price - who survives family insanity, rape, abuse, obesity, and the death of loved ones, emerging at the end as a strong, tough woman whose life is moving toward hope and salvation
