The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard*
a Before and After by Rosellen Brown*
a A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton*
a Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
a House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende*
a The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
a Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
a Palace Walk by Najib Mahfouz

The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton*
a The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
a Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
a Willy Slater’s Lane by Mitch Wieland

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb*
a Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison*
a Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (Young Adult)*
a Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons*

Stones from the River by Ursual Hegi*
a The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass*
a Floating in My Mother’s Palm by Ursula Hegi
a The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds*
a Joy School by Elizabeth Berg*
a Birdie and Finn by Harry Cauley
a The Saskiad by Brian Hall*
a Saving Grace by Lee Smith

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris*
a Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler
a The Properties of Water by Ann Hood
a Rima in the Weeds by Deirdre McNamer*
a The Longings of Women by Marge Piercy

"After Oprah List #2":Readalikes for Oprah's Picks #8-14
Thanks Again to Booklist magazine
If you’ve enjoyed the following Oprah selections (in bold), it’s likely you’ll also like the books listed beneath them, which are similar in style and content. See me for summaries of the novels or more information. Books with * are available in the BEHS library.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
a How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez*
a Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid(
a Salt by Earl Lovelace
a Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Perez

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines*
a Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell*
a Billy by Albert French
a Time’s Witness by Michael Malone

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons*
a Durable Goods by Kaye Gibbons*
a Dog People by Merry McInerney-Whiteford*
a Listening for Small Sounds by Penelope Trevor

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons*
a East of the Mountains by David Guterson
a Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler*

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman*
a South of Resurrection by Jonis Agee
a Bedrock by Lisa Alther
a Places to Stay the Night by Ann Hood

Paradise by Toni Morrison*
a Naming the New World by Calvin Baker
a Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
a Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
a These Same Long Bones by Gwendolyn Parker

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen*
a The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
a Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
a Maggy’s Child by Karen Robards

"After Oprah" List #3: Readalikes for Oprah's Picks #16-23
With thanks to Booklist magazine
If you liked any of the Oprah Book Club picks listed below (in bold) you might also like the books listed beneath them. Books marked with an asterisk are available in the BEHS library.

"Unless you do great things with it, it makes no difference how much power you have." -Oprah Winfrey

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian*
a Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
a Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons*
a Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage*
a Suspicious River by Laura Kasischke
a The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
a Rocking the Babies by Linda Raymond

White Oleander by Janet Fitch*
a Martha Calhoun by Richard Babcock
a Anywhere But Here by Martha Simpson
aAmy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb*
a Independence Day by Richard Ford
a The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
a Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck*

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts*
a The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver*
a American Pie by Michael Lee West
a Catherwood by Marly Youmans*

Jewel by Brett Lott*
a Family Pictures by Sue Miller
a Evening by Susan Minot
a Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price

The Reader by Bernard Schlink*
a Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
a Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film by Claude Lanzmann
a A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve*
a In the Night Season by Richard Bausch
a A Bigamist’s Daughter by Alice McDermott
a While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
aThe Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

"After Oprah" List #4: Readalikes for Oprah's Picks #24-31
Prepared by Cathy Belben, BEHS Librarian
If you’ve enjoyed the following Oprah selections (in bold), it’s likely you’ll also like the books listed beneath them, which are similar in style and content. See me for summaries of the novels or more information. Books with * are available in the BEHS library.

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
a The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi*

Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
a Push by Sapphire
a Cruddy by Lynda Barry
a Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
a Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
a Degrees of Love by Rachel Basch
a In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
a Sister by A. Manette. Ansay

River, Cross My Heart by Bree Clarke
a Shelter by Jane Phillips
a Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
a Class Tripp by Emmanuel Carrere
a A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne

Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
a Sweetbitter by Reginald Gibbons
a That Night by Alice McDermott
a Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
a The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
a More than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
a The Paper Anniversary by Joan Wickersham

Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
a The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
a In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
a We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

A young girl growing up in Kentucky in the 50’s learns to cope with her Tourette’s Syndrome with the help of an obese woman in town, who has also suffered from ridicule.

A family struggles to stay functional after one of their teenage daughters is viciously attacked.

A woman fights to save the home she lost after ignoring notices from the city; an Iranian immigrant struggles to keep the same house, which he bought at auction, in his possession. Suspenseful and unpredictable.

            The Soloist by Mark Salzman

After her husband leaves, a divorced rebuilds her life with the help of some unlikely friends.

A minister takes his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Congo, where he hopes to spread his brand of evangelism to Africans, without knowing anything about their culture. The family becomes embroiled in the country’s politics, and each member tells how the experience affects and changes her.

A tragedy in her past  haunts a happily married woman, until a college roommate reappears and opens old wounds.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison