Oprah's Book Club
Oprah's Book Club adalah segmen diskusi buku dalam talkshow The Oprah Winfrey Show, membahas buku-buku yang dipilih oleh Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey memulai acara ini pada tahun 1996, menyeleksi satu buku baru, biasanya sebuah novel, yang didiskusikan dan dibaca setiap bulan.[1] Segmen ini berakhir setelah ditayangkan selama lima belas tahun, seiring berakhirnya Oprah Winfrey Show, 25 Mei 2011.[1][2][3] Total buku yang didiskusikan dalam acara ini mencapai 70 buku, selama 15 tahun.
Karena diskusi buku ini semakin populer, beberapa judul buku yang awalnya kurang terkenal menjadi buku terlaris, meningkat penjualannya, bahkan ada yang mencapai beberapa juta eksemplar; peristiwa ini, secara luas disebut sebagai efek Oprah.[4] Al Greco, seorang profesor marketik dari Fordham University memperkirakan total penjualan dari 69 "edisi Oprah" mencapai 55 juta eksemplar.[1]
Diskusi buku ini juga pernah diisi dengan pembahasan buku-buku sastra kontroversial, antara lain novel The Corrections karya Jonathan Franzen yang pernah dipilih oleh Winfrey,[1] dan memoar karya James Frey, A Million Little Pieces, seleksi tahun 2005, yang dibajak.[1] Kontroversi berikutnya terjadi pada Frey dan penerbit Nan Talese yang berkonfrontasi dan dipermalukan oleh Winfrey dalam sebuah "pujian" yang ditayangkan secara langsung dalam acara Winfrey.[5]
Pada hari Jumat, 1 Juni 2012, Oprah mengumumkan merilis acara Oprah's Book Club 2.0 bersama Wild oleh Cheryl Strayed. Versi baru dari Oprah's Book Club, proyek bersama antara OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network dan O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, akan menggabungkan beberapa platform media sosial dan pembaca.
Buku yang didiskusikan
Date | Title | Author |
---|---|---|
1996 | ||
September | The Deep End of the Ocean | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
October | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
November | The Book of Ruth | Jane Hamilton |
December | She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb |
1997 | ||
February | Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi |
April | The Rapture of Canaan | Sheri Reynolds |
May | The Heart of a Woman | Maya Angelou |
June | Songs In Ordinary Time | Mary McGarry Morris |
September | The Meanest Thing To Say | Bill Cosby |
September | A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines |
October | A Virtuous Woman | Kaye Gibbons |
October | Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons |
December | The Treasure Hunt | Bill Cosby |
December | The Best Way to Play | Bill Cosby |
1998 | ||
January | Paradise | Toni Morrison |
March | Here on Earth | Alice Hoffman |
April | Black and Blue | Anna Quindlen |
May | Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat |
June | I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb |
September | What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl Cleage |
October | Midwives | Chris Bohjalian |
December | Where the Heart Is | Billie Letts |
1999 | ||
January | Jewel | Bret Lott |
February | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink |
March | The Pilot's Wife | Anita Shreve |
May | White Oleander | Janet Fitch |
June | Mother of Pearl | Melinda Haynes |
September | Tara Road | Maeve Binchy |
October | River, Cross My Heart | Breena Clarke |
November | Vinegar Hill | A. Manette Ansay |
December | A Map of the World | Jane Hamilton |
2000 | ||
January | Gap Creek | Robert Morgan |
February | Daughter of Fortune | Isabel Allende |
March | Back Roads | Tawni O'Dell |
April | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
May | While I Was Gone | Sue Miller |
June | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
August | Open House | Elizabeth Berg |
September | Drowning Ruth | Christina Schwarz |
November | House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III |
2001 | ||
January | We Were the Mulvaneys | Joyce Carol Oates |
March | Icy Sparks | Gwyn Hyman Rubio |
May | Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail | Malika Oufkir |
June | Cane River | Lalita Tademy |
September | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
November | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry |
2002 | ||
January | Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
April | Sula | Toni Morrison |
2003 | ||
June | East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
September | Cry, The Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
2004 | ||
January | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
April | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
May | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
September | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
2005 | ||
June | The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August | William Faulkner |
September | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey |
2006 | ||
January | Night | Elie Wiesel |
2007 | ||
January | The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography | Sir Sidney Poitier |
March | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
June | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
October | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez |
November | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
2008 | ||
January | A New Earth | Eckhart Tolle |
September | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle[6] | David Wroblewski |
2009 | ||
September | Say You're One of Them | Uwem Akpan |
2010 | ||
September | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen |
December | Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
Referensi
Catatan kaki
- ^ a b c d e Bob Minzesheimer, "How the 'Oprah Effect' changed publishing", USA Today, May 23, 2011.
- ^ Matthew Flamm, "Publishers say farewell to Oprah Book Club boon", Crain's New York Business, May 20, 2011
- ^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag
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- ^ Wyatt, Edward (2004-06-07). "Tolstoy's Translators Experience Oprah's Effect". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 2007-10-05.
- ^ Carr, David (2006-01-30). "How Oprahness Trumped Truthiness". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 2007-10-05.
- ^ [1] Diarsipkan October 3, 2008, di Wayback Machine.
Bacaan lain
- Eva Illouz (2003). Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11813-9.
- Kathleen Rooney (2005). Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-782-1.
- Ted Striphas (2009). The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14814-6.
Pranala luar
- Oprah's Book Club
- Oprah Book Club & O Magazine Selections Diarsipkan 2018-01-10 di Wayback Machine.