Since 1996, Oprah's book club has been through it all -- from blockbuster sales to troubled choices, and now competing with the so-called 'BookTok.'
; for authors, a call from Winfrey still feels like being told they've won an Oscar. Winfrey told AP that she is in "awe" of the club and its history, "the very notion" that someone might go and buy a copy of "Anna Karenina" simply because she suggested it.
CBS This Morning Co-Anchors Gayle King, Anthony Mason, and Tony Dokoupil interview Oprah on her new Book Club Selection,"Olive, Again" with author Elizabeth Strout. The club began as the extension of conversations between herself and her producer at the time, Alice McGee. They would talk about the books they liked until McGee finally suggested, in 1996, that Winfrey share the experience with her viewers. The first pick, Mitchard’s "The Deep End of the Ocean," has sold more than 2 million copies.
"I took it so personally," she says. "I probably should haven’t taken it so personally but I felt like he had let me down and I let the audience down. ... I was the one saying, ‘Can you believe this is a true story?’ and shouting that from the rooftops. I felt foolish for doing that, embarrassed for doing that."
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