The post-Civil War tragedy of the Southern Compson family, including the memorable “manchild” Benjy. If you buy something from the links on this page, we may earn a commission.
EVERYBODY GETS A BOOK!In 1996, Oprah started her very own book club — each year it seems to get bigger and better, with many of her literary picks often becoming national best-sellers. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. A man falsely convicted of murder spends 30 years on Death Row before his release.The memorable and moving memoir of the the first African American First Lady of the United States.A young slave on a plantation in Virginia has a power that saves his life when he nearly drowns in a river. We've gathered up our favorite books of April and May 2020—and there are a lot of them. This book explores race relations in Oklahoma, including a battle between two communities, one of which is led by women refusing to give up their freedom. Oprah’s Book Club reignited a love of reading for millions of people. Her book club's newest chapter? An entertaining book about a family in chaos as the matriarch attempts to bring them home for Christmas.The story of four people who share a cramped apartment in India in the 1970s. Both looking to run away from their problems, they trade houses. A memoir about rehab that faced a lot of controversy over its truthfulness. (Almost) each month Oprah lists out another pick and since her show is no longer on the air (we miss it From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. She also works with Apple TV to provide content for the books she chooses.
By accepting his fate, Hinton found a way to transform his spirit and survive the next 30 years in a 5-foot-by-7-foot jail cell. The film adaption was released in 2001 and started Natalie Portman.It's postwar Germany, and 15-year-old Michael Berg has fallen in love with a woman twice his age. Get the book now in the Apple Books app on your iPhone or iPad. Oprah's Book Club has been credited with reviving a culture of literary discussion, and it represents one of the most lasting legacies from the original "Oprah Winfrey Show". She meets an incredibly nice and caring family that's willing to help, and together they help her embark on a new life. Oprah's first book club pick in partnership with Apple, The Water Dancer tells the story of plantation slave Hiram Walker, who has been gifted with a mysterious power that saves him during a near-death experience when he almost drowns in a river. This book follows the life of the son of the richest Black family in a small town. An African American couple’s lives change after the death of their five-year-old daughter. A pregnant teen finds herself living in a Wal-Mart in the South. The film adaptation of the movie, released in 2008, starred Kate Winslet, who then won an Academy Award for Best Actress.Astrid finds herself going from foster home to foster home after her mother, a brilliant poet convicted of murder. The secret sauce? (Picture a less modern day version of First published in 1951 and still very present in American culture, Delores Price has lived her life in front of the TV, watching melodramas and snacking on the potato chips and soda her mentally ill mother feeds her.Thinking she will be able to learn her way through life from the television shows, Delores realizes she has done nothing but become miserable and overweight. Oprah Winfrey's book club is back. An autobiographical account if survival in the Holocaust.
A woman who is a dwarf grapples with Nazism in Germany while learning that all humans are unique. A post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive.An LGBT story about growing up female but struggling between male and female identity.An 800 page book about the erection of a Gothic cathedral in the 12th century.A mute boy with a peaceful life experiences trauma.Behind the veil of a picture-perfect family in Minnesota.The story of orphan Pip from humble beginnings to manhood.Two men love the same woman amidst the Reign of Terror.A woman’s memoir of self-discovery after her mother’s death and a severed marriage.The matriarch of an African American family tackles love and loss through the Great Migration. Oprah's first selection was a suspenseful and moving story about the disappearance of a child and the family suffering that follows.