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Oprah’s Book Club Checklist 2002

All the Books Blessed by Oprah in 2002

By Thomas Tennant, About.com

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 2002:

1. ‘Sula’ by Toni Morrison

A tale set soon after WWI, in the small African-American community of The Bottom, where young Sula and Nel become fast friends. A tragic accident distances the two friends and Sula’s return to the community after more than a decade incites the population.

2. ‘Fall on Your Knees’ by Ann-Marie MacDonald

The tale of a small family’s secret life.

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