Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America

From the jacket:

Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since its inception in 1996. READING WITH OPRAH is the first in-depth look at the phenomenon that is Oprah's Book Club.

Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book features a wide survey of recent commentary, and describes why the club ended in 2002, as well as why it resumed fourteen months later in 2003, with a new focus on "great books." Rooney also provides the most extensive analysis yet of the Oprah Winfrey-Jonathan Franzen contretemps.

Download a fact sheet about the OBC and various authors discussing their thoughts on it.