It was the worst of times for Oprah picking women's books...

I'm not suggesting Dickens isn't great. But Oprah just made her next bookclub pick and... its a double dose of Charles Dickens.

So much for great expectations that it would be anything written by a woman...

Since Jan 2005, Oprah has picked 16 books for her club

All of them have been by men! 

All of them in the last almost 6 years. 

If you go back, since 2003 she's picked 22 titles.

20 of them are by men. 

I'm not in favor of affirmative action here. I  just continue and continue and continue to find it curious. Is it possible that in al these years there has not been one title written by one woman that deserved to be an Oprah bookclub selection?

FYI: She has 2 million readers in her book club over 80% of them are women and  7-9 million viewers watch the show every week and the majority are overwhelmingly female. More than  80% say some searches.

 

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[Djmont]

It does seem strange that she can't seem to find a book by a female author that's worthy of being recommended to her audience. Surely there's SOMETHING out there she likes.

-David J. Montgomery