Announcing Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through”

By Jennifer Schwabinger | October 29 2020 | Award Winners

Kicking off on Monday, October 26th and running through Monday, November 30th, Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” will feature 7 titles—5 of which are Penguin Random House titles—that have provided her solace during uncertain times. This series will be featured on Oprah’s Book Club, Twitter & Instagram accounts.

Each week will be dedicated to a different title, beginning each Monday with a kick off message from Oprah highlighting the title and its importance to her.

Click here to view the announcement post on Instagram or click here to view the post on Twitter.

To see the full list of titles on the Backlist Vault, click here.

To see this collection on Edelweiss, click here.

 

 

The Soul of America
The Soul of America
The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
978-0-399-58982-9
We have been here before. In this timely and revealing #1 New York Times betseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
$21.00 US
Apr 30, 2019
Paperback
Random House Trade Paperbacks
World
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon
A Novel
Toni Morrison
978-1-4000-3342-3
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.“Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs.” —The New Yorker
$17.00 US
Jun 08, 2004
Paperback
Vintage
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Devotions
Devotions
The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
978-0-399-56324-9
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
$31.00 US
Oct 10, 2017
Hardcover
Penguin Press
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
978-0-8129-9354-7
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Because the nation needs it now. A bold investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes from "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (New York Observer), told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life. "THIS IS REQUIRED READING." --TONI MORRISON
$26.00 US
Jul 14, 2015
Hardcover
One World
US, Canada, Open Mkt
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
978-0-679-74472-6
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.
$14.00 US
Dec 01, 1992
Paperback
Vintage
US, Canada, Open Mkt
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