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After Oprah....

If you are a fan of the "Oprah's Book Club" selections, you might enjoy these titles!

If you enjoyed "Deep End of the Ocean" -- try these titles:
Before and After -- Rosellen Brown
A Map of the World -- Jane Hamilton (also an "Oprah Book")
Picture Perfect -- Jodi Picoult

If you enjoyed "Song of Solomon" -- try these titles:
House of the Spirits -- Isabelle Allende
Autobiography of My Mother -- Jamaica Kincaid
Palace Walk -- Najib Mahfouz

If you enjoyed "The Book of Ruth" -- try these titles:
The Great Santini -- Pat Conroy
Mister Sandman -- Barbara Goudy

If you enjoyed "She's Come Undone" -- try these titles:
Bastard Out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison
Weetzie Bat -- Francesca Lia Block
Ellen Foster -- Kaye Gibbons (also an 'Oprah' book selection)

If you enjoyed "Stones from the River" -- try these titles:
The Tin Drum -- Gunter Grass
Floating in My Mother's Palm -- Ursula Hegi

If you enjoyed "The Rapture of Canaan" -- try these titles:
Joy School -- Elizabeth Berg
The Saskiad -- Brian Hall
Saving Grace -- Lee Smith

If you enjoyed "Songs in Ordinary Time" -- try these titles:
Before Women Had Wings -- Connie May Fowler
Rima in the Weeds -- Deirdre McNamer
The Longings of Women -- Marge Piercy

If you enjoyed "A Lesson Before Dying" -- try these titles:
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- Bebe Moore Campbell
Billy -- Albert French

If you enjoyed "Ellen Foster" -- try these titles:
Sister -- A. Manette Ansay
Durable Goods -- Elizabeth Berg

If you enjoyed "A Virtuous Woman" -- try these titles:
East of the Mountains -- David Guterson
Breathing Lessons -- Anne Tyler

If you enjoyed "Paradise" -- try these titles:
Naming the New World -- Calvin Baker
Linden Hills -- Gloria Naylor

If you enjoyed "Here on Earth" -- try these titles:
Aquamarine -- Carol Anshaw
Places to Stay the Night -- Ann Hood

If you enjoyed "Black and Blue" -- try these titles:
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors -- Roddy Doyle
Maggy's Child -- Karen Robards

If you enjoyed "Breath, Eyes, Memory" -- try these titles:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents -- Julia Alvarez
Lucy -- Jamaica Kincaid

If you enjoyed "I Know This Much is True" -- try these titles:
Independence Day -- Richard Ford
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -- Oscar Hijuelos
Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck

If you enjoyed "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day" -- try these titles:
Tempest Rising -- Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The Promise of Rest -- Reynolds Price

If you enjoyed "Midwives" -- try these titles:
Bringing Out the Dead -- Joe Connelly
Charms for the Easy Life -- Kaye Gibbons
Hearts and Bones -- Margaret Lawrence

If you enjoyed "Where the Heart Is" -- try these titles:
The Bean Trees -- Barbara Kingsolver
American Pie -- Michael Lee West
Catherwood -- Marly Youmans

If you enjoyed "Jewel" -- try these titles:
Family Pictures -- Sue Miller
Evening -- Susan Minot

If you enjoyed "The Reader" -- try these titles:
Jump and Other Stories -- Nadine Gordimer
A Judgement in Stone -- Ruth Rendell

If you enjoyed "The Pilot's Wife" -- try these titles:
Tales of Burning Love -- Louise Erdrich
Garden of Lies -- Eileen Goudge

If you enjoyed "White Oleander" -- try these titles:
Anywhere But Here -- Mona Simpson
Amy and Isabelle -- Elizabeth Strout

If you enjoyed "Mother of Pearl" -- try these titles:
Wolf Whistle -- Lewis Nordan
Philadelphia Fire -- John Edgar Wideman

If you enjoyed "Tara Road" -- try these titles:
Talk Before Sleep -- Elizabeth Berg
Outer Banks -- Anne River Siddons

If you enjoyed "River, Cross My Heart" -- try these titles:
Half a Heart -- Rosellen Brown
Make Believe -- Joanna Scott

If you enjoyed "Vinegar Hill" -- try these titles:
The Book of Famous Lowans -- Douglas Bauer
Remember Me -- Laura Hendrie
Ferris Beach -- Jill McCorkle

If you enjoyed "A Map of the World" -- try these titles:
The Sweet Hereafter -- Russell Banks
Evening News -- Marly Swick

If you enjoyed "Gap Creek" -- try these titles:
The Rosewood Casket -- Sharyn McCrumb
Fair and Tender Ladies -- Lee Smith

If you enjoyed "Daughter of Fortune" -- try these titles:
Ahab's Wife -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Sierra -- Richard Wheeler

If you enjoyed "Back Roads" -- try these titles:
The Wizard's Tide -- Frederick Buechner
Purple America -- Rick Moody

If you enjoyed "The Bluest Eye" -- try these titles:
Down By the River -- Edna O'Brien
Push -- Sapphire

If you enjoyed "While I Was Gone" -- try these titles:
Tell Me Lies -- Jennifer Cruise
The Starlite Drive-In -- Marjorie Reynolds
The Weight of Water -- Anita Shreve

If you enjoyed "The Poisonwood Bible" -- try these titles:
East of the Sun -- Barbara Bickmore
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit -- Jeanette Winterson

If you enjoyed "Open House" -- try these titles:
Dancing at the Harvest Moon -- K.C. McKinnon
Message in a Bottle -- Nicholas Sparks

If you enjoyed "Drowning Ruth" -- try these titles:
Cavedweller -- Dorothy Allison
More Than You Know -- Beth Gutcheon
The Properties of Water -- Ann Hood

If you enjoyed "House of Sand and Fog" -- try these titles:
Dreamland -- Kevin Baker
The Angel Max -- Peter Glassgold
Plainsong -- Kent Haruf

If you enjoyed "We Were the Mulvaneys" -- try these titles:
The Great Santini -- Pat Conroy
Fortunate Lives -- Robb Forman Dew
Amy and Isabelle -- Elizabeth Strout

If you enjoyed "Icy Sparks" -- try these titles:
River Angel -- A. Manette Ansay
The Good Times are Killing Me -- Lynda Berry
The Giant's House -- Elizabeth McCracken

If you enjoyed "Stolen Lives" -- try these titles:
The Spy Wore Silk -- Aline, Countess of Romanones
Long Way to Freedom -- Nelson Mandela
The Voice That Remembers -- Adhe Tapontsang

If you enjoyed "Cane River" -- try these titles:
Daughters of the Dust -- Julie Dash
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- Ernest Gaines
Edge of Heaven -- Marita Golden

If you enjoyed "The Connections" -- try these titles:
A Good House -- Bonnie Burnard
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving

If you enjoyed "A Fine Balance" -- try these titles:
The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy
'Raj Quartet' series -- Paul Scott
A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth

If You Enjoyed "Fall on Your Knees" -- try these titles:
A Long Way from Home -- Connie Briscoe
No Great Mischief -- Alistair MacLeod
Moira's Crossing -- Christina Shea

If you enjoyed "Sula" -- try these titles:
Her Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
The Women of Brewster Place -- Gloria Naylor
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots -- Susan Straight

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