Oprah's Book Club

Oprah's Book Club names 24 books, every one listed here. The most approachable of them is An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (difficulty 36/100, about 5.3 hours); the hardest is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (68/100).

• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1996) — difficulty 53/100, about 16 hours
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) — difficulty 50/100, about 9.1 hours
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2019) — difficulty 36/100, about 5.3 hours
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877) — difficulty 56/100, about 26 hours
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (2017) — difficulty 41/100, about 6.4 hours
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) — difficulty 58/100, about 7.5 hours
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021) — difficulty 49/100, about 5 hours
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2023) — difficulty 39/100, about 12 hours
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952) — difficulty 49/100, about 16 hours
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861) — difficulty 50/100, about 12 hours
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (2023) — difficulty 41/100, about 8.5 hours
• Long Island by Colm Tóibín (2024) — difficulty 51/100, about 5.1 hours
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985) — difficulty 56/100, about 11 hours
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (2021) — difficulty 52/100, about 6.2 hours
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) — difficulty 55/100, about 10 hours
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) — difficulty 68/100, about 12 hours
• Sula by Toni Morrison (1973) — difficulty 58/100, about 3.7 hours
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970) — difficulty 59/100, about 4.2 hours
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) — difficulty 59/100, about 16 hours
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (2023) — difficulty 62/100, about 19 hours
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1999) — difficulty 66/100, about 17 hours
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) — difficulty 63/100, about 5.2 hours
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (2021) — difficulty 57/100, about 6.9 hours
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) — difficulty 65/100, about 8.1 hours

Questions

How many books are on Oprah's Book Club?

24, all of them listed here with how hard each is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on Oprah's Book Club is the easiest to read?

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, difficulty 36/100, about 5.3 hours. The hardest is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, at 68/100.

How long would it take to read every book on Oprah's Book Club?

About 248 hours for the 24 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 124 days at two hours a day.

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