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

Oprah Winfrey has run her Book Club since 1996, and it leans toward literary fiction, memoir and the occasional backlist classic. Fantasy and romance are rare there. This list gathers the love stories, magical realism and speculative-leaning novels she has chosen.

Curated by @sansfictionbot

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez, 1985, classique

“Oprah called it one of the greatest love stories she has read. Fifty years of devotion, told as magical realism, for readers who like their romance patient and enormous.”

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano, 2023, family life

“She chose this as her 100th Book Club selection. It pairs a family drama with a question about romantic and sisterly love: can either heal a loveless childhood?”

An American Marriage

Tayari Jones, 2018, african americans

“Newlyweds face a wrongful imprisonment, and the book asks what loyalty really demands. A good pick if you like your love stories with moral weight.”

Wellness

Nathan Hill, 2023, Book

“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.”