Oprah Winfrey is widely known as the founder of celebrity book clubs. Her book club has seen many iterations—and chosen over 100 books—since 1996, when she picked Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean and launched her book club by saying, “When I was growing up, books were my friends. When I didn’t have friends, I had books. And one of the greatest pleasures I have right now in life is to be reading a really good book and to know I have a really, really good book after that book to read.”
Her love of books has clearly withstood the test of time and has lived well beyond the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011. She’s still selecting a book a month, generating conversation, sitting down with the authors for deep discussions, and adapting some of the titles. Here are all of her 2025 picks, from her first-ever repeat pick to an author who inspired Chris Evans’ tattoo.
