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Oprah’s Book Club Checklist 2003

All the Books Blessed by Oprah in 2003

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 2003:

1. ‘Cry, The Beloved Country’ by Alan Paton

The story of Stephen Kumalo, a rural African-American Anglican priest searching for his son in the city of Johannesburg in the 1940s.

2. ‘East of Eden’ by John Steinbeck

Exploring the intersecting lives of the Trasks and the Hamiltons – a novel that Steinbeck considers his pinnacle work.

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