After Oprah
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If you liked... Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald TRY -> |
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood OR -> |
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides |
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If you liked... She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb TRY -> |
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Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison OR -> |
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Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood |
Read all of Oprah's Book Club selections? Try these suggested books that are similar in theme or style.
If you liked Cane River, by Lalita Tademy, try:
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball or
The Bonesetter’s Daughter,
by Amy Tan
If you liked Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat, try:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez or
So Far From God, by Ana Castillo
If you liked
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, try:
Century’s Son, by Robert Boswell or
Sister Crazy, by Emma Richler
If you liked Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende, try:
Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund or
Portrait in Sepia,
by Isabel Allende
If you liked Drowning Ruth, by Christina Schwarz, try:
Eddie’s Bastard, by William Kowalski or
More Than You Know, by Beth Gutcheon
If you liked Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons, try:
Crooked Little Heart, by Anne Lamott or
Secret Life of Bees,
by Sue Monk Kidd
If you liked A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry try:
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri or
Desirable Daughters,
by Bharati Mukherjee
If you liked Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan, try:
The Rosewood Casket, by Sharyn McCrumb or
The Truest Pleasure, by Robert Morgan
If you liked The Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou, try:
Even the Stars Look Lonesome, by Maya Angelou or
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography, by Zora Neale Hurston
If you liked Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman, try:
Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott or
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank
If you liked House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus, try:
Dancing After Hours, by Andre Dubus or
Gun Runner’s Daughter, by Neil Gordon
If you liked I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb, try:
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, or
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
If you liked Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio, try:
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem, or
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
If you liked Jewel, by Brett Lott, try:
Evening, by Susan Minot or
Family Pictures, by Sue Miller
If you liked A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines, try:
Your Blues Ain’t Like My Blues, by Bebe Moore Campbell or
In My Father’s House, also by Ernest Gaines
If you liked Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian, try:
What Girls Learn, by Karin Cook, or
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen
If you liked Mother of Pearl, by Melinda Haynes, try:
Lady Moses, by Lucinda Roy or
Sweetbitter, by Regnald Gibbons
If you liked Open House, by Elizabeth Berg, try:
Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler, or
Dancing at the Harvest Moon, by K.C. McKinnon
If you liked The Pilot’s Wife, by Anita Shreve, try:
Charlotte Gray, by Sebastian Faulks, or
The Pull of the Moon, by Elizabeth Berg
If you liked
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, try:
Undiscovered Country, by Samantha Gillison, or
Fordlandia, by Eduardo Sguiglia
If you liked The Reader, by Bernard Schlink, try:
Jump and Other Stories, by Nadine Gordimer
If you liked River Cross My Heart, by Breena Clarke, try:
Make Believe, by Joanna Scott, or
Betsey Brown, by Ntozake Shange
If you liked Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi, try:
Floating in My Mother’s Palm, by Ursula Hegi, or
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
If you liked Sula, by Toni Morrison, try:
I Wish I Had a Red Dress, by Pearl Cleage, or
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
If you liked Vinegar Hill, by Manette Ansay, try:
Remember Me, by Laura Hendrie, or
The Notebook of Lost Things, by Megan Staffel
If you liked A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons, try:
Errands, by Judith Guest, or
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
If you liked We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates, try:
Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger or
The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom
If you liked While I Was Gone, by Sue Miller, try:
Last Magician, by Janet Turner Hospital, or
Motherkind, by Jayne Anne Phillips
If you liked White Oleander, by Janet Fitch, try:
Martha Calhoun, by Richard Babcock, or
Anywhere But Here, by Mona Simpson
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Updated: June 06, 2007






