4 Books to Read Over Winter Break

A tribute to Twentieth Century entertainment, a hopeful novel of three strangers whose lives intersect in Amsterdam, the unforgettable story selected for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and one more!

O, The Oprah Magazine | December 10, 2012

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The Light of Amsterdam

David Park

384 pages

Loss and regret haunt the residents of Belfast, Northern Ireland, who populate David Park's poetic, hopeful novel, The Light of Amsterdam.

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century

Margaret Talbot

432 pages

Margaret Talbot mixes biography, cultural history, memoir, and affectionate tribute in The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century.

Broken Like This

Monica Trasandes

336 pages

Rivals team up to protect the woman they are both consumed with.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Ayana Mathis

256 pages

Ayana Mathis's novel about one family's journey from the segregated South through five and a half turbulent, soul-searing decades, is such a masterful debut, Oprah chose it as the second Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.