Follet is another great pick... but since I'm keeping score:
I've been keeping score on Oprah: since Jan 2005, she's picked 10 books.
All of them have been by men. Every one.
If you go back, since 2003 she's picked 16 titles. 14 of them are by men.
I'm not suggesting affirmative action here. I never am. I just continue to find it curious.
FYI: 49 million viewers watch the show every week and the majority are overwhelmingly female. More than 80% say some searches.

Hmmm, very interesting! Wonder what her reasoning is. Somebody needs to question her about this.
Posted by: Terri | November 15, 2007 at 08:10 PM
Didn't she add Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert this year?
Posted by: nik | November 16, 2007 at 08:50 AM
No, Eat Pray wasn't a pick, she had the book and author on the show but it wasn't a bookclub pick.
Posted by: M.J. | November 16, 2007 at 01:00 PM
Oprah's set the stage, then, for having the all-male group of National Book Award winners on her show.
All of us are waiting for Oprah to call and say, honey, your book is my next pick which means billions of dollars worth of publicity, prizes and a trip up here to see me. With so much at stake, what sane author is going to take out a page in the NY Times that screams "Oprah unfair to women authors, for shame"?
Not me, babe.
Malcolm
Posted by: Malcolm Campbell | November 18, 2007 at 11:34 AM