Friday, May 29, 2009

Oprah's Book Club (Kindle Edition) Revisited

kindlekorner.pngOprah Winfrey has long been known as an avid reader with a keen eye for a good book. Authors whose books have been chosen for her book club have, over the years, enjoyed immense popularity.

When The Kindle Reader first visited Oprah's Book Club on October 25, 2008, thirty-five out of the sixty-seven books on the book club reading list were available for Kindle readers. With hundreds of titles being added to the Amazon Kindle bookstore each day, I thought it might be a good time to bring the list up-to-date.
The result is somewhat disappointing, with only seven more book list titles - books by Caron McCullers, Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Maya Angelou, Alice Hoffman, Sheri Reynolds, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez - newly available for our favorite reading device.

Twenty-three OBC books are still only obtainable in dead tree editions, including works by William Faulkner, Elie Wiesel, and Isabel Allende. Here's the updated list:

COMPLETE LIST OF BOOKS SELECTED FOR OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB:

2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.

2007
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. No Kindle edition.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

2006
Night by Elie Wiesel. No Kindle edition.

2005
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.
Light in August by William Faulkner. No Kindle edition.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. No Kindle edition.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. No Kindle edition.

2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. No Kindle edition.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Please note that this book is also available on many of the free e-books sites.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullers.
One Hundred Years Of Solitudeby Gabriel García Márquez. PLEASE NOTE: buyer beware of purchasing this Kindle edition before requesting a sample. Both the author's name and the title of the book are incorrect in the Amazon Kindle bookstore listing and the one customer review leads me to suspect that the publisher of this edition is not the copyright holder.

2003
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

2002
Sula by Toni Morrison.
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald. No Kindle edition.

2001
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. No Kindle edition.
The Correctionsby Jonathan Franzen.
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir. No Kindle edition.
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio.
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.

2000
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III.
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz.
Open House by Elizabeth Berg.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller. No Kindle edition.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell.
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. No Kindle edition.
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan. No Kindle edition.

1999
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton.
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay.
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke. No Kindle edition.
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy.
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes. No Kindle edition.
White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve .
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.
Jewel, by Bret Lott. No Kindle edition.

1998
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian.
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage.
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.
Breath, Eyes, Memoryby Edwidge Danticat.
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen. No Kindle edition.
Here on Earthby Alice Hoffman.
Paradise by Toni Morrison.

1997
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby. No Kindle edition.
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby. No Kindle edition.
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby. No Kindle edition.
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons. No Kindle edition.
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons. No Kindle edition.
A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines.
Songs In Ordinary Time, by Mary McGarry Morris.
The Heart of a Womanby Maya Angelou.
Rapture of Canaanby Sheri Reynolds.
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. No Kindle edition.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. No Kindle edition.

1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton. No Kindle edition.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Oprah.com is a good source for keeping up with what Oprah and her friends are reading.

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