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Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month.〔 The Club ended its 15-year run, along with the Oprah Winfrey Show, on May 25, 2011.〔Bob Minzesheimer, ("How the 'Oprah Effect' changed publishing" ), ''USA Today'', May 23, 2011.〕〔Matthew Flamm, ("Publishers say farewell to Oprah Book Club boon" ), Crain's New York Business, May 20, 2011〕〔 In total the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years. Due to the book club's widespread popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales in some cases by as many as several million copies; this occurrence is widely known as the ''Oprah effect''. Al Greco, a Fordham University marketing professor, estimated the total sales of the 69 "Oprah editions" at over 55 million copies.〔 The Club has seen several literary controversies, such as Jonathan Franzen's public dissatisfaction with his novel ''The Corrections'' having been chosen by Winfrey,〔 and the now infamous incident of James Frey's memoir, ''A Million Little Pieces'', a 2005 selection, being outed as partly fabricated.〔 The latter controversy resulted in Frey and publisher Nan Talese being confronted and publicly shamed by Winfrey in a highly praised live televised episode of Winfrey's show. On Friday, June 1, 2012, Oprah announced the launch of Oprah's Book Club 2.0 with ''Wild'' by Cheryl Strayed. The new version of Oprah's Book Club, a joint project between OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network and ''O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine'', will incorporate the use of various social media platforms and e-readers. ==History== The book club's first selection on September 17, 1996 was the then recently published novel ''The Deep End of the Ocean'' by Jacquelyn Mitchard.〔 Winfrey discontinued the book club for one year in 2002, stating that she could not keep up with the required reading while still searching for contemporary novels that she enjoyed. After its revival in 2003, books were selected on a more limited basis (three or four a year) Winfrey returned to fiction with her 2007 selections of ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthy in March and ''Middlesex'' by Jeffrey Eugenides in June. Shortly after its being chosen, ''The Road'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Winfrey conducted the first ever television interview with McCarthy, a famously reclusive author, on June 5, 2007. On October 5, 2007 the latest selection was announced as ''Love in the Time of Cholera'', a 1985 novel by Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez, greatly furthering not only the influence of the author in North America, but that of his translator Edith Grossman. Another work by Márquez, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', was a previous selection for the book club in 2004. The last club selection was a special edition of Charles Dickens' ''A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations''.〔Carolyn Kellogg, ("Oprah's Book Club: She spoke, we read" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', May 22, 2011.〕 It had disappointingly low sales figures.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oprah's Book Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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