Best of Oprah's Book Club: Love Stories and Epic Novels

Nathan Hill · 2023

Nathan Hill takes on marriage and the modern obsession with self-improvement. Oprah framed it as a contemporary look at love, which makes it the sharpest-edged romance here.

Elizabeth Strout · 2024

Lucy Barton and Bob Burgess meet again in a story about connection, trust and yearning. A murder mystery hums in the background.

· 2024

A three-generation family saga in South India, number 101 in the Book Club. Oprah said she couldn't put it down, and the length is part of the pleasure.

Bruce Holsinger · 2025

Her July 2025 selection brings artificial intelligence, romance and family conflict into the speculative corner of this list, and it saves a twist for the end.

Megha Majumdar · 2025

A dystopian novel chosen in October 2025. It was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize.

Gabriel García Márquez · 1967

The classic of Latin American magical realism, chosen for the Book Club in 2004. Read it if you've only met García Márquez through the love story.

Colson Whitehead · 2016

Colson Whitehead reimagines the escape route as a literal railway. Oprah chose it in 2016, and it brings the speculative note to the shelf.