Oprah's Top 20 Moments

Oprah's Book Club (1996)

A year after I launched the book club, a woman who appeared on the show said something I'll never forget: "Before I joined the book club, I had never read an entire book."

Reading has always been an open window to other worlds. Had I not been taught to read at an early age, I'd be an entirely different person. Thanks to books, I knew there was another kind of life. The chance to give another person that same gift? That was one of my proudest moments.

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