Oprah Winfrey’s 2025 Book Club Picks: Wedding Drama and a Throwback Selection That She Says 'Transformed My Life'

Mar. 15, 2025

Oprah Winfrey in December 2023.Photo:Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Oprah Winfreyis heading into the new year with some fresh new reads.The media personality and philanthropist, 70, has recommended over 100 books through her book club since its launch in 1996.Oprah’s Book Clubbegan as a discussion segment on Winfrey’s talk show,The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has featured everything from classics to up-and-coming fiction and memoirs.In December, Winfrey’s Oprah’s Book ClublaunchedThe Oprah Podcast.The weekly podcast, which premiered with aconversation withSmall Things Like Theseauthor Claire Keegan, features Winfrey interviewing one Book Club author each month, with other episodes including discussions with “leaders, global newsmakers, bestselling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers,” per a press release.The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!“It is the perfect opportunity to bring together readers around things we both love: books, coffee and conversation,” Oprah said.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Winfrey aims to select books that “engender conversation, spark enlightenment, help launch emerging authors and reacquaint us with the already prominent,” according toOprah Daily, and encourage readers to connect with “fellow bibliophiles” worldwide.See below for Winfrey’s 2025 book picks.

Oprah Winfreyis heading into the new year with some fresh new reads.The media personality and philanthropist, 70, has recommended over 100 books through her book club since its launch in 1996.Oprah’s Book Clubbegan as a discussion segment on Winfrey’s talk show,The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has featured everything from classics to up-and-coming fiction and memoirs.

In December, Winfrey’s Oprah’s Book ClublaunchedThe Oprah Podcast.The weekly podcast, which premiered with aconversation withSmall Things Like Theseauthor Claire Keegan, features Winfrey interviewing one Book Club author each month, with other episodes including discussions with “leaders, global newsmakers, bestselling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers,” per a press release.

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!

“It is the perfect opportunity to bring together readers around things we both love: books, coffee and conversation,” Oprah said.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Winfrey aims to select books that “engender conversation, spark enlightenment, help launch emerging authors and reacquaint us with the already prominent,” according toOprah Daily, and encourage readers to connect with “fellow bibliophiles” worldwide.See below for Winfrey’s 2025 book picks.

01of 03

Amazon

Griffin’s inspiring, impactful memoir recounts the author’s journey using MDMA therapy to confront repressed childhood memories of assault, and asks pivotal questions about freedom, perfectionism and moving forward from trauma.

“I was just floored when I read Amy’s story,” Winfreysaid of the memoir. “What she discovered about herself, about her past, made me recognize how powerful the desire to forget is and also how powerful the desire to remember is.”

Buy Now

02of 03

03of 03

Penguin;Reprint edition

Winfrey kicked off the year with the self-help bookA New Earth, which she had previously chosen for her book club in 2008.“The reason I’m choosing it for the second time is that this book transformed my life,” Winfrey said. “I already had a life’s purpose in 2008, but it enhanced the purpose that I was living here on earth, and I know it can do it for everyone who reads it.”

source: people.com