Oprah's Book Club

Oprah's Book Club is a popular book club as decided on by talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Because of the book club's wide popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales by as many as a million copies at the height of the book club's popularity. Winfrey suspended her book club in 2002, but brought it back in 2003, focusing more on classics.

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Book club - Oprah Winfrey - 2002 - 2003 - Classics

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Many literature critics have criticized Oprah's book selections as overly sentimental. She suspended the club shortly after the author of her latest selected made similar criticism upon hearing his selection. After Jonathan Franzen's book The Corrections was selected, he expressed a dislike for being in the company of other OBC authors, saying in an interview that Winfrey had "picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one dimensional ones that I cringe, myself, even though I think she's really smart and she's really fighting the good fight." http://www.powells.com/authors/franzen.html

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Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

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