For her 100th book club pick, Oprah Winfrey relied on the same instincts she has drawn upon from the start: Does the story move her? Does she think about it for days after? In a work of fiction, do the characters seem real to her?
"When I don't move on, that's always a sign to me there's something powerful and moving," Winfrey told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview.
People are also reading… "She is the queen," says Jenna Bush Hager, who hosts the popular"Read With Jenna" club on NBC's"Today" show."I remember being a high school senior, in AP English, and reading 'Snow Falling on Cedars' because I had walked into the local bookstore and seen that Oprah had recommended it."
Thanks to Winfrey, contemporary authors such as Jacquelyn Mitchard and Jane Hamilton found audiences they never imagined, while picks published decades or even centuries earlier, from"Anna Karenina" to"As I Lay Dying," placed high on bestseller lists. Winfrey didn't invent the mass market book club, but she demonstrated that spontaneous passion can inspire people in ways that elude the most sophisticated marketing campaigns.
The club was so successful that some suspected a catch. Winfrey remembers Quincy Jones asking her:"How much money are they paying you for that book club, baby?" The process was so informal that Winfrey at first didn't even bother going through intermediaries. "I took it so personally," she says."I probably should haven't taken it so personally but I felt like he had let me down and I let the audience down. ... I was the one saying, 'Can you believe this is a true story?' and shouting that from the rooftops. I felt foolish for doing that, embarrassed for doing that."
She is currently aiming for a new book every eight weeks, with author interviews and interactive reader discussions showcased on OprahDaily.com. Winfrey has no plans to stop, and no specific goals for selections. In the aftermath of"American Dirt," selected early in 2020, she had vowed to open herself up"to more Latinx books." But she has not since picked any for her club and is not committing herself for the future.
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