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Oprah's Books to Watch for Sep 2010
  1. “Room” by Emma Donoghue
    88%Yay Squared (8 Reviews)
  2. “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson
    90%Yay Squared (2 Reviews)
  3. “Dreaming in Chinese” by Deborah Fallows
    75%Yay (2 Reviews)
  4. “The Widower’s Tale” by Julia Glass
    87%Yay Squared (3 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Aug 2010
  1. “Strangers at the Feast” by Jennifer Vanderbes
    74%Yay (5 Reviews)
  2. “The Sisters from Hardscrabble” by Beverly Jensen
    78%Yay (4 Reviews)
  3. “The Cookbook Collector” by Allegra Goodman
    82%Yay Squared (15 Reviews)
  4. “What We Have By” by Amy Boesky
    75%Yay (2 Reviews)
  5. “This Must Be the Place” by Kate Racculia
    75%Yay (6 Reviews)
  6. “Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart
    81%Yay Squared (18 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Jul 2010
  1. “Kings of the Earth” by Jon Clinch
    84%Yay Squared (10 Reviews)
  2. “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender
    78%Yay (17 Reviews)
  3. “Someone Knows My Name” by Lawrence Hill
    87%Yay Squared (17 Reviews)
  4. “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It” by Maile Meloy
    83%Yay Squared (17 Reviews)
  5. “If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This” by Robin Black
    81%Yay Squared (7 Reviews)
  6. “My Name Is Mary Sutter” by Robin Oliveira
    75%Yay (4 Reviews)
  7. “The Madonnas of Echo Park” by Brando Skyhorse
    90%Yay Squared (2 Reviews)
  8. “Parrot and Olivier in America” by Peter Carey
    79%Yay (33 Reviews)
  9. “Dombey and Son” by Charles Dickens
  10. “Elizabeth Street” by Laurie Fabiano
    80%Yay Squared (1 Review)
  11. “The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott” by Kelly O’Connor McNees
    74%Yay (5 Reviews)
  12. “The Hundred-Foot Journey” by Richard C. Morais
    78%Yay (4 Reviews)
  13. “What Is Left the Daughter” by Howard Norman
    87%Yay Squared (3 Reviews)
  14. “Father of the Rain” by Lily King
    80%Yay Squared (4 Reviews)
  15. “The Passage” by Justin Cronin
    78%Yay (22 Reviews)
  16. “American Music” by Jane Mendelsohn
    74%Yay (9 Reviews)
  17. “The Summer We Read Gatsby” by Danielle Ganek
    64%Yay (5 Reviews)
  18. “Someone Will Be with You Shortly” by Lisa Kogan
    83%Yay Squared (4 Reviews)
  19. “How Did You Get This Number” by Sloane Crosley
    80%Yay Squared (8 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Jun 2010
  1. “Anthropology of an American Girl” by Hilary Thayer Hamann
    82%Yay Squared (6 Reviews)
  2. “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan
    84%Yay Squared (5 Reviews)
  3. “Slow Love” by Dominique Browning
    74%Yay (7 Reviews)
  4. “Unfinished Business” by Lee Kravitz
    80%Yay Squared (1 Review)
  5. “Try to Remember” by Iris Gomez
    73%Yay (3 Reviews)
  6. “The Invisible Bridge” by Julie Orringer
    81%Yay Squared (14 Reviews)
  7. “A Fierce Radiance” by Lauren Belfer
    78%Yay (4 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for May 2010
  1. “Glorious” by Bernice L. McFadden
    80%Yay Squared (3 Reviews)
  2. “The Long Song” by Andrea Levy
    78%Yay (21 Reviews)
  3. “Sophia Tolstoy” by Alexandra Popoff
    70%Yay (2 Reviews)
  4. “Girl in Translation” by Jean Kwok
    74%Yay (10 Reviews)
  5. “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore
    73%Yay (6 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Apr 2010
  1. “Something Red” by Jennifer Gilmore
    77%Yay (9 Reviews)
  2. “The Irresistible Henry House” by Lisa Grunwald
    77%Yay (13 Reviews)
  3. “The American Girl” by Monika Fagerholm
    70%Yay (10 Reviews)
  4. “Falling Apart in One Piece” by Stacy Morrison
    73%Yay (3 Reviews)
  5. “Alone with You” by Marisa Silver
    80%Yay Squared (7 Reviews)
  6. “A Ticket to the Circus” by Norris Church Mailer
    70%Yay (12 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Mar 2010
  1. “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helen Simonson
    85%Yay Squared (14 Reviews)
  2. “Making Toast” by Roger Rosenblatt
    84%Yay Squared (14 Reviews)
  3. “How to Escape from a Leper Colony” by Tiphanie Yanique
    90%Yay Squared (3 Reviews)
  4. “Someone Will Be with You Shortly” by Lisa Kogan
    83%Yay Squared (4 Reviews)
  5. “The Surrendered” by Chang-rae Lee
    85%Yay Squared (35 Reviews)
  6. “The Hole We’re In” by Gabrielle Zevin
    74%Yay (8 Reviews)
  7. “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” by Diana Joseph
    77%Yay (7 Reviews)
Oprah's Books to Watch for Feb 2010
  1. “Wench” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    85%Yay Squared (8 Reviews)
  2. “The Postmistress” by Sarah Blake
    78%Yay (18 Reviews)
  3. “Just Kids” by Patti Smith
    83%Yay Squared (23 Reviews)
  4. “The Lost Books of the Odyssey” by Zachary Mason
    85%Yay Squared (11 Reviews)
  5. “Jealousy” by Catherine Millet
    68%Yay (9 Reviews)
  6. “Brava, Valentine” by Adriana Trigiani
    76%Yay (5 Reviews)
  7. “Devotion” by Dani Shapiro
    82%Yay Squared (13 Reviews)
  8. “Three Days Before the Shooting” by Ralph Ellison
    75%Yay (4 Reviews)
  9. “A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir” by Elena Gorokhova
    85%Yay Squared (11 Reviews)
  10. “Erotic Poems” by e.e. cummings
Oprah's Books to Watch for Jan 2010
  1. “Star” by Peter Biskind
    73%Yay (11 Reviews)
  2. “Unfinished Desires” by Gail Godwin
    81%Yay Squared (15 Reviews)
  3. “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin
    86%Yay Squared (7 Reviews)
  4. “Day out of Days” by Sam Shepard
    85%Yay Squared (12 Reviews)
  5. “Talking About Detective Fiction” by P.D. James
    80%Yay Squared (17 Reviews)
  6. “Nanny Returns” by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
    79%Yay (10 Reviews)
  7. “U Is for Undertow” by Sue Grafton
    81%Yay Squared (12 Reviews)
  8. “Stones into Schools” by Greg Mortenson
    82%Yay Squared (13 Reviews)
  9. “Footnotes in Gaza” by Joe Sacco
    91%Yay Squared (15 Reviews)
  10. “Cleaving” by Julie Powell
    62%Yay (18 Reviews)
 

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