Oprah Winfrey ended her broadcast TV career last week and with it goes one of the show's mainstay's, Oprah's Book Club. According to Nielsen/Bookscan, recommendations from the outgoing host over the last 10 years have helped sell 22 million Oprah-branded special editions. Seven of the top 10 titles she recommended have sold over 1 million copies each.
Top 10 best-selling Oprah's Book Club titles in the past 10 years
| Author | Title | Release | Sales to date |
| Eckhart Toile | A New Earth | Jan 2005 | 3,370,000 |
| James Frey | A Million Little Pieces | Sep 2005 | 2,695,000 |
| Ellie Wiesel | Night | Jan 2006 | 2,021,000 |
| Cormac McCarthy | The Road | March 2007 | 1,385,000 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | We Were the Mulvaneys | Jan 2001 | 1,348,000 |
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden | June 2003 | 1,314,000 |
| Ken Follett | The Pillars of the Earth | Nov 2007 | 1,109,000 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Love in the Time of Cholera | Oct 2007 | 817,000 |
| Gwyn Hyman Rubio | Icy Sparks | March 2001 | 794,000 | ...
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