Oprah's Book Club (Official) discussion

FIVE SMOOTH STONES by Ann Fairbain, PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett, EXODUS & MILA 18 by James Michener, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L.Stedman

1. The Kite Runner
2. Daughter of Fortune
3. The Blood of Flowers
4. Angela's Ashes

1. To kill a mockingbird
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Angela's Ashes
4. Flowers in the Attic

Gone With The Wind
Flowers In The Attic
Exercist
Big Red

1. By the Light of My Father's Smile -Alice Walker
2. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 - Paul Robeson Jr.
3. Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights -Genna Rae McNeil
4. Jane Eyre -Charlotte Bronte

1- Anna Karenina
2- Matilda
3- The Kite Runner
4- The God of Small Things

1 - The Color Purple
2 - Little Bee
3 - No Disrespect
4 - Black Like Me

Roots
The Secret Garden
The Color Purple
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

To Kill a Mockingbird
Hurry Home Candy
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
The Soong Dynasty
Sophie's Choice

* No Disrespect

Les Miserables
A Christmas Memory
The English Patient
The Life of Pi

The Stand
Gone With the Wind
QB VII
Pillars of the Earth

A Prayer For Owen Meany
I Know this Much is True
The Secret Life of Bees
The Color Purple

HI: I'm Marla and can't limit this to 4!

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Ahab's WIfe
The Pawnbroker
THe Lord of the Rings trilogy

Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman - read it 4x in 6 months
Purpose for the Pain - very healing
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - inspiring
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" - entertaining

Lesley wrote: "To Kill a Mockingbird
Hurry Home Candy
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
The Soong Dynasty
Sophie's Choice"

Ohhhh, "Mixed Up Files" and "Sophie's Choice" are great picks!

Thornbirds, To Kill A Mockingbird, Poltergeist, The Shining.

Correction - Book I MOST remember is the Exorcist NOT Poltergeist.

A Woman of Substance. To Kill a Mockingbird Thorn Birds Coming of Age

The first 2 of these books actually changed my life!

1. The way of the peaceful warrior
2. The 4 agreements
3. The alchemist
5. The celestine prophecy

1) Like Water for Chocolate
2) A Game of Thrones
3) Kushiel's Dart
4) Caucasia

The shining
It
Bridge to terabithia
Pinballs

Seth Speaks -blew my mind wide open
Seat of the Soul
All Kryon books
Einstein's Dreams
And I have to add a fifth - Tathea by Anne Perry

1. The Stand by Stephen King
2. Nancy Drew and the Sign of the Twisted Candles (#9) by Carolyn Keene
3. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
4. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Lucky by Alice Sebold
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I get chills Gail with Nancy Drew

These books had a lasting impact on me and I've read Dark Confessions 4x (its short, but powerful).

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman
Bone Gap
Every Last Word

These books have changed my point of view
1. Tuesday with Morrie
2. Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Troops)
3. To kill a Mockingbird
4. Three cups of tea

The Dentist of Auschwitz
Born Surviviors, Wendy Holden
The distance between us, Reyna Grande
Paula, Isabel Allende

Choosing only four is hard but the top of the list is:
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Haunted House
3.All That is Bitter and Sweet
4. The Little House Series

May wrote: "FIVE SMOOTH STONES by Ann Fairbain, PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett, EXODUS & MILA 18 by James Michener, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L.Stedman"

May wrote: "FIVE SMOOTH STONES by Ann Fairbain, PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett, EXODUS & MILA 18 by James Michener, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L.Stedman"

The Light Between the Oceans...I will never forget that book. It killed me.

This is really hard! But, I'll try -

"Five Smooth Stones"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"A Time to Kill"
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" from my earliest days of reading

Recently
"A Little Life"
The Golem and the Jin"
"The Miniaturist"
"A Light Between Oceans"

Beatrice Small-Skye O'Malley
Brenda Jacksons- The Durango Affair
Shirley Hailstock- Wrong Dress, Right Guy
Diane Gabaldon- Outlander

1) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2) To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper
3) All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ties with Kristin Hannah's Nightingale
4) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid

and I just love James Rollins' Sigma Force books for thriller-pleasure! Everyone of them has science and adventure and often death involved.

1) The Harry Potter Series - specially the Philosophers Stone & The Half Blood Prince.
2) Wonder by RJ Palacio
3) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni
4) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Night by Elie Wiesel
The Odyssey by homer
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Little Prince
Harry Potter, all the books;
Cinderella
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

The four books that I most vividly remember reading and have stayed with me throughout my life are:

1. A Time To Kill by John Grisham
2. The Prince Of Tides by Pat Conroy
3. 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
4. The Passage by Justin Cronin

HKB

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gail wrote: "Here's a question for everyone... Do you think Fiction or Non-fiction books make more of an impression... And why?"

I would say Fiction because it appeals to a wider audience, therefore it can imprint on a bigger scale and it's much easier to relate to the characters.

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, Coraline and Cellist of Sarajevo because I had procrastinated reading it as an assignment and had to do it frantically last minute (though I wholly enjoyed all of them)! Also vividly remember Of Mice and Men because I cried at the end.

Historic fiction books with a lot of realism usually make a big impression on me.
The Nightingale
The Invention of Wings
The Boston Girl
The Glass Castle

1. The Alchemist
2. The Secret
3. A Day Like Any Other But Different From The Others
4. Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

Now, I'm seeing so many more to go a favorite list! Limiting the number makes it impossible!

1. The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
2. Watership Down by Richard Adams
3. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
4. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

1. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2. My Sisters Keeper by Jodie Picoult
3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
4. Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

I like your collection.

The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Storm of swords - G R R Martin
Sense of an ending - Julian Barnes
Book of night women - Marlon James

I love this question posed to members! How is it possible for a voracious reader to choose "only". four memorable books? (: I suppose I will name my favorites:
1. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons

2. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseni

3. Five Smooth Stones - Ann Fairbairn

4. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte