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An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.
Oprah's Book Club sparked a revolution among readers by bringing serious contemporary novels to the attention of a wider audience. The Oprah's Book Club seal on a book led to instant fame and bestseller status for authors-but, how did Oprah change the way America reads and values books? Reading Oprah suggests that Oprah initiated an all-important mantra-trust readers. Not only did the public start reading accessible novels, but they also would snatch up formidable titles and read them with a growing confidence and skill. Then, they would talk about them, giving them a life beyond the reader and text.
Foreword: Elizabeth Long
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Oprah's Reading Revolution
1. Reading Oprah
The Book Club Begins
To Enlighten and Entertain
The Oprah Effect
The Oprah Writers
Oprah's Choices
What Women Want
2. Oprah Reading
The Talking Book
The Way West
The Middlebrow Novel
The Middlebrow Book Club
Reading Lessons
Deep End of the Ocean
Song of Solomon
Talk Reading
Paradise
Song of Solomon
3. Readers Talking
Group Reading
The Talking Life
Oprahfication
Black and Blue
Open House
Oprah's American Story
The Elegant Balance
The Bluest Eye
4. Talking Readers
The Corrections
McLiterature
Claiming Cultural Capital
Learning to Read
The List
Reading for Class
Shifting Standards
Anticipatory Marketing
Conclusion: The Triumph of Cultural Democracy
Cultural Democracy
White Oleander
Appendices
Notes
Works Cited
Index