Oprah will announce her 64th Book Club pick on Sept. 17, and speculation on what it will be is already buzzing.
Here’s what we know (via/via):
- The book will retail for $28.
- It’s published by a Macmillan imprint (St. Martin’s, FSG, Henry Holt).
- The last hardcover Book Club pick was The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski—which we all know has been very successful.
- It has the ISBN prefix of a St. Martin’s Press book, although St. Martin’s hardcover prices usually end in “.99.” Is Macmillan tricking us?
Any predictions? Early guesses include Nelson Mandela’s Conversations with Myself, which has a foreword by President Obama, or Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza. (The pub date would have to be changed for the first guess, and the price would have to be changed for the second. So . . . maybe we need to come up with some more guesses.)
Do you pick out books based on the Oprah sticker? While I’m not crazy about having the logo on a book in my collection, I have loved many of Oprah’s past choices: She’s Come Undone, The Poisonwood Bible, Daughter of Fortune, Middlesex. . . And that “Summer of Faulkner” box set sure came in handy during my Faulkner seminar in college!
Tony Blair’s Memoir is my guess to be the book club selection.
Oprah is doing a lot of good work. Better than most celaebs!
I wish Oprah would do one of Anne Lamott’s books. They are so fine.
I wish she would have Anne Lamott on her show AND choose one of her books. She is so brutally honest and so very funny.
If I had money I put it on Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
In my experience with guessing these things, the prices stay the same, but pub dates do definitely change!
It *is* “Freedom” by Franzen. Some bookstores already have them in their warehouses with the sticker on it.
How do you know this?
Choose reading material not just because Oprah said so, it is a good place to start indeed but please do make choices that are your own and read only what interests you.
While I really like this post, I think there was an mistake close to the end of the first paragraph.