Oprah Read Alikes

If you miss Oprah's Book Club, here are suggestions for books that read like some of her selections.  (Click on the title to search the library's catalog).                                       

Jacqueline Mitchard
     The Deep End of the Ocean 

• Rosellen Brown / Before and After  
• Jane Hamilton / A Map of the World  

• Isabelle Allende / House of the Spirits 
• Najib Mahfouz / Palace Walk 

•  Pat Conroy / The Great Santini

• Dorothy Allison / Bastard out of Carolina

• Kaye Gibbons / Ellen Foster

• Christopher Isherwood / The Berlin Stories 

• Elizabeth Berg / Joy School 

• Lee Smith / Saving Grace 

• Dierdre McNamer / Rima in the weeds 

• Marge Piercy / The Longings of women 

Edwidge Danticat
   Breath, eyes, Memory 

• Julia Alvarez / How the Garcia girls lost their accents

• Michael Malone / Time's Witness

Kaye Gibbons 
   Ellen Foster

• Elizabeth Berg / Durable Goods

   A Virtuous Woman

• David Guterson / East of the Mountains
• Anne Tyler / Breathing Lessons

Hoffman, Alice
   Here on Earth

• Lisa Alter / Bedrock
• Ann Hood / Places to stay the night

Quindlen, Anna
   Black and Blue

• Roddy Doyle / The Woman who walked into doors
• Jodi Picoult / Picture Perfect

Chris Bohjalian
   Midwives

• Joe Connelly / Bringing out the dead
• Margaret Lawrence / Hearts and Bones

Pearl Cleage
   What Looks like Crazy on an ordinary Day

• Reynolds Price / The Promise of Rest
• Linda Raymond / Rocking the Babies

Wally Lamb
   I Know this Much is True

• Richard Ford / Independence Day
• Oscar Hijuelos / Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Bernard Schlink
   The Reader

• Nadine Gordimer / Jump and Other Stories
• Ruth Rendell / A judgement in Stone

Ansay, Manette
    Vinegar Hill

• Morgan Staffel  / The Notebook of Lost Things

• Lynne Hugo and Anna Tuttle Villegas / Swimming Lessons

Breena Clarke
   River Cross my Heart

• Rosellen Brown / Half a Heart

Jane Hamilton
   A map of the World

• Russell Banks / Sweet Hereafter
• Maxine Chernoff / A Boy in Winter

Robert Morgan
   Gap Creek

• Fred Chappell / I am one of you forever
• Sharyn McCrumb / Rosewood Casket

Elizabeth Berg
   Open House

• Jennifer Belle / High Maintenance
• Anne Tyler / Back when we were Grownups

Toni Morrison
   The Bluest Eye

• Gish Jen / Mona in the Promised Land

Gwyn Hyman Rubio
   Icy Sparks

• Jonathan Lethem / Motherless Brooklyn
• Elizabeth McCracken / The Giant's House

Christine Schwartz
   Drowning Ruth

• Beth Gutcheon / More than you Know

Barbara Kingsolver
   Poisonwood Bible

• Sarah Stone / The True Sources of the Nile

Jonathan Franzen
   The Corrections

• Robert Boswell / Century's Son
• Antonya Nelson / Living to Tell

Ann-Marie MacDonald
   Fall on Your Knees

• Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin
• Jeffrey Eugenides / The virgin suicides

Rohinton Mistry
   A Fine Balance

• Bharati Mukherjee / Desirable Daughters
• Manil Suri / Death of Vishnu

Toni Morrison
   Sula

• Bebe Moore Campbell / Brothers and Sisters

Malika Oufkir
   Stolen Lives

• Latifa / My Forbidden Face

Lalita Tademy
   Cane River

• Edward Ball / Slaves in the family
• Alice Randall / The Wind Done Gone

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