Oprahs book list

” White Oleander ” by Janet Fitch

I have read through the list of books on the list and have decided that this is the first book I will read. I found a website where I can read this book for free online. I thought I would give it a go as it saves me money by not having to go and buy it. Well I am going to go start reading it now and will post as I go along.

Ok so I have started reading this book.

The beginning took a little while to get into. When I started to read it I thought it was going to be a romance novel. It did have a very “Gone with the wind” feel to it. I have got through a bit of the book and I don’t want to stop reading it.

Even though I can read it for free online I think I might have to go buy it as I would definitely read it again and again so might be worth investing some money on this book.

Well off to read some more. When post again tomorrow and let you know how it’s going.

2008 – 2010

And page 5:

• The story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
• A new Earth – Exkhart Tolle
• Say you’re one of them – Uwem Akpan
• Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
• A tale of two cities – Charles Dickens
• Great expectations – Charles Dickens

2005 – 2007

And page 4:

• A million little pieces – James Frey
• Light in August – William Faulkner
• The sound and the fury – William Faulkner
• As I lay dying – William Faulkner
• Night – Elie Wiesel
• The measure of a man – Sydney Poitier
• The road – Cormac McCarthy
• Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
• Love in the time of cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

2002 – 2004

And page 3:

• Fall on your knees – Ann – Marie McDonald
• Sula – Toni Morrison
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Cry, the beloved country – Alan Paton
• The good Earth – Pearl S Buck
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
• The heart is a lonely hunter – Carson McCullers
• One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1999 – 2001

Here is page 2:

• Jewel – Bret Lott
• The reader – Bernhard Schlink
• The pilot’s wife – Anita Shreve
• White Oleander – Janet Fitch
• Mother of pearl – Melinda Haynes
• Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
• River, cross my heart – Breena Clarke
• Vinegar Hill – A. Manette Ansay
• A map of the world – Jane Hamilton
• Gap greek – Robert Morgan
• Daughter of fortune – Isabel Allende
• Back roads – Tawni O’Dell
• The bluest eye – Toni Morrison
• While I was gone – Sue Millar
• The poisonwood bible – Barbara Kingsolver
• Open house – Elizabeth Berg
• Drowning Ruth – Christina Svhwarz
• House of sand and fog – Andre Dubus III
• We were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
• Icy Spark – Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• Stolen lives – Twenty lives in a desert jail – Malika Oufkir
•  Cane river – Lalita Tademy
• The corrections – Jonathan Franzen
• A fine balance – Rohinton Mistry

1996 – 1998

So here is the beginning of the list of books on Oprahs book list:

• The deep end of the ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Song of solomon – Toni Morrison
• The book of Ruth – Jane Hamilton
• She’s come undone – Wally Lamb
• Stones from the river – Ursula Hegi
• The rapture of Canaan – Sheri Reynolds
• The heart of a woman – Maya Angelou
• Songs in ordinary time – Mary McGarry Morris
• A lesson before dying – Ernest J. Gaines
• Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
• A virtuous woman – Kaye Gibbons
• The meanest thing to say – Bill Cosby
• The treasure hunt – Bill Cosby
• The best way to play – Bill Cosby
• Paradise – Bill Cosby
• Here on earth – Toni Morrison
• Black and blue – Alice Hoffman
• Breath, eyes, memory – Edwidge Danticat
• I know this much is true – Wally Lamb
• What looks like crazy on an ordinary day – Pearl Cleage 
• Midwives – Chris Bohjalian
• Where the heart is – Billie Letts

What have I got myself into………..

So I started doing a bit of research lastnight into this book list and found out that there are over 70 books in this book list for me to read and review.

I am really, really hoping that I may have already read some of them. Will definitely make my life a bit easier if I have. I am going to post a list of all the books on her list, feel free to read through them and if there is a book you really want me to review let me know and I will read it just for you.

For anyone that might read this and wonder why I am doing this. I am doing it purely because I enjoy reading.

Introduction to my blog

I am new to this whole blogging thing but decided to give it a go.

I love to read but have noticed that there aren’t alot of reviews out there on books, so I have decided to do my own reviewing of books. I have decided to start with the ones on Oprahs book list. I will be reading and then posting reviews on every book in her list from 1996 onwards.

I am not going to be reading them in any particular order.

Please feel free to comment on any reviews I write as I would like to know what other people thought about the books too.