Oprah Winfrey's Book Club: See All of Her 2025 Selections
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01/09/2025 12:00 PM
The media personality launched her book club in 1996
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Oprah Winfrey in Dec. 2023Oprah Winfrey is heading into the new year with some fresh new reads.
The media personality and philanthropist, 70, has recommended over 100 books through her book club since its launch in 1996. Oprah's Book Club began as a discussion segment on Winfrey's talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has featured everything from classics to up-and-coming fiction and memoirs.
In December, Winfrey's Oprah's Book Club launchedThe Oprah Podcast. The weekly podcast, which premiered with a conversation with Small Things Like These author Claire Keegan, will feature Winfrey interviewing one Book Club author each month, with other episodes including discussions with "leaders, global newsmakers, bestselling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers," per a press release.
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"It is the perfect opportunity to bring together readers around things we both love: books, coffee and conversation," Oprah said.
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Winfrey aims to select books that "engender conversation, spark enlightenment, help launch emerging authors and reacquaint us with the already prominent," according to Oprah Daily, and encourage readers to connect with "fellow bibliophiles" worldwide.
See below for all of Winfrey's 2025 book picks.
'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle
Penguin;Reprint edition
'A New Earth' by Eckhart TolleWinfrey kicked off the year with the self-help book A New Earth, which she had previously chosen for her book club in 2008.
"The reason I'm choosing it for the second time is that this book transformed my life," Winfrey said. "I already had a life's purpose in 2008 but it enhanced the purpose that I was living here on earth and I know it can do it for everyone who reads it."
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