Any readers have a prediction for Oprah’s next book club pick? The Queen of Talk will make her 65th selection on Monday, December 6—after she chats with Jonathan Franzen about Freedom.
Here’s what we know so far (via the AP). The book will be published as a trade paperback on Monday and retail for $20. (The Kindle edition’s only going for $7.99.) This morning’s edition of Publishers Marketplace also noted that it will be “a fat paperback from Penguin, categorized as a novel (of course), with an unknown page count but a listed shipping weight of 1.9 pounds.” (That is big. The Wolf Hall paperback has a shipping weight of 1.1 pounds.)
It’s been a while since Oprah picked a classic . . .
Oh man.. wonder if it’s A Suitable Boy. It’s listed at 2.1 lbs though. I have the paperback and I am reading it now with some friends and it is huge. Like 3 inches thick.
Oh, and I want to add that I am surprised that she is doing another book club pick. I thought she was ending it with Franzen.
I like the War & Peace guess someone made on Twitter — def seems likely after FREEDOM. But the best translation is published by Vintage.
p.s. what was that horrible Nazi book that came out a few years ago? Sold for big bucks at Frankfurt, translated from the French… Les Bienveillantes I think was the French title. It bombed; can’t imagine that Oprah would pick it, but it was long. Don’t think it was a Penguin title either though.
My money’s on the Plume deluxe edition of Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED. Almost 1,200 pages. And a gorgeous package. Do I get a treasure if I’m right?
It’s gonna be a classic. Charles Dickens is my guess.
Looks like Laura Hillenbrand’s newest book, Unbroken.
http://www.amazon.com/Oprah-65/dp/0142196584
Going out with a bang with Gravity’s Rainbow… and shocking the world with a sit down interview with Pynchon.