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 2005:
Originally billed as the true story of the author’s addiction and destructive personality, the work was revealed to be fictional. Winfrey eventually had the author on her show to chastise him for the deception.
An exploration of racial tension in the South in the early 1930s, focusing on the story of Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman, searching for the father of her unborn child.
Faulkner’s celebrated novel, which tells the tale of mentally challenged Benjy Comopson, troubled Quentin Compson, bitter brother Jason Compson, and their African-American servant Dilsey.
Fifteen different narrators tell the story of Addie Bundren, who lays dying, and her family's quest to honor her dying wish.
