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Oprah.com will feature an Oprah's Book Club webcast hosted by Oprah with special guest Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley to discuss the 65th Oprah's Book Club selection.

Browse the complete Oprah's Book Club book archive, a list of dozens of best-sellers. Learn more about the books and authors, get reading questions for your club, watch video clips and more.

Watch videos with Oprah Book Club authors, including Ken Follett, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Sidney Poiter and Jeffrey Eugenides.

Oprah's Book Club producer Jill starts the book club discussion about Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom, Good Neighbors - Chapter 2: Best Friends and why she struggles to like the character of Patty Berglund.