I would compare her to Michael Jordan except that she also essentially invented the celebrity book club for the modern era, so Oprah Winfrey is more like James Naismith combined with Michael Jordan .
In her wake, two celebrity book club colossi have risen, Reese’s Book Club , and Read with Jenna . I have taken it upon myself to tell you which one of them is the closest inheritor of the spirit of Oprah. Multiple book club choices have been adapted for the screen through Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company, including Celeste Ng’s “Little Fires Everywhere” and Taylor Jenkins Reid’sRead with Jenna started as a monthly feature on the Today Show in March 2019, and displays Bush Hager’s desire to frequently challenge the reader with some grittier literary reads, such as Elizabeth Wetmore’s “Valentine,” which is a powerful but wrenching emotional read about the aftermath of a brutal...