Books Selected for Oprah’s Book Club
Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 launched in June of 2012 and is a joint venture between, Oprah Winfrey, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, and O: The Oprah Magazine. The club is a re-launch of the original Book Club which ran from 1996 until 2011. Here are all the authors, of African descent, who have been selected Oprah’s Book Clubs since 1996.
One Book Selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 2000
April’s Selection
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
- Voted #38 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2000 Oprah Book Club Selection
Publication Date: May 08, 2007
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780307278449
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
Read a Description of The Bluest Eye
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.