Oprah rules the bestseller lists

We all know that Oprah Winfrey is an excellent talk show host. But her influence clearly extends  well beyond her shows. Lady Oprah now rules the American book market. Not as a writer, but as owner of one of America’s most popular book clubs. USA Today Online writes:
Oprah Winfrey’s continuing reign as patron saint of [...]

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

Is this yet another tale of a wild chase after a treasure, or what is it? It is, and yet it most certainly is not! This fable, about an Andalusian shepherd boy, with its seemingly trivial story line, has sold more than 65 million copies world wide. And, even though The Alchemist was first published in Brazil as recently as [...]

Oprah and Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Celebrity Revival

At first I was puzzled. Very puzzled. All of a sudden, out of the blue, a very old book jumped right up to the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for trade fiction. The book is called “Love in the Time of Cholera”. This book was first published in Spanish in 1985. [...]