Can You Guess the Next Oprah Book Pick?
Freakonomics Blog is running a contest to guess the next Oprah book club pick.
Here is the book’s page on Amazon.com, which says that the book is published by Vintage Books (one of Random House’s paperback imprints).
B&N.com, meanwhile, says the forthcoming selection is a Knopf book, but I am guessing that is not quite right: Knopf is a hardcover imprint, also within the Random House empire, although it is worth noting that most of Knopf’s books are later published in paperback by Vintage. So, using the B&N.com listing of Knopf as a clue, it seems sensible that the book under discussion was published in hardcover by Knopf and in paperback by Vintage.
Oprah used to pick novels; but since she revived her book club, she has been partial to memoirs including Elie Wiesel’s Night and Sidney Poitier’s The Measure of a Man. And so, dear readers, what do you think is Oprah’s next pick? Will she stick with the memoir?
My money is on Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. It’s a wonderful book (published by Knopf/Vintage) and I am guessing that Winfrey’s loyal readers would appreciate Didion’s clear-eyed chronicle of death and life and sorrow.
The pick is announced today. What do you think?
Cross posted to lagizma and booksalon.
Here is the book’s page on Amazon.com, which says that the book is published by Vintage Books (one of Random House’s paperback imprints).
B&N.com, meanwhile, says the forthcoming selection is a Knopf book, but I am guessing that is not quite right: Knopf is a hardcover imprint, also within the Random House empire, although it is worth noting that most of Knopf’s books are later published in paperback by Vintage. So, using the B&N.com listing of Knopf as a clue, it seems sensible that the book under discussion was published in hardcover by Knopf and in paperback by Vintage.
Oprah used to pick novels; but since she revived her book club, she has been partial to memoirs including Elie Wiesel’s Night and Sidney Poitier’s The Measure of a Man. And so, dear readers, what do you think is Oprah’s next pick? Will she stick with the memoir?
My money is on Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. It’s a wonderful book (published by Knopf/Vintage) and I am guessing that Winfrey’s loyal readers would appreciate Didion’s clear-eyed chronicle of death and life and sorrow.
The pick is announced today. What do you think?
Cross posted to lagizma and booksalon.