The start of fall always feels like turning over a new page—and even more so when we have a new Oprah’s Book Club pick to snuggle up with! Today on CBS Mornings, Oprah revealed her 107th selection: Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout. “Tell Me Everything has all the things: Romance and mystery and secrets,” says Oprah, it’s “perfect for this time of year.”
In Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout returns to Crosby, Maine, the fictional town where she set many of her previous novels—and to some of her most beloved characters, including the titular star of Strout’s earlier Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge and its follow-up Olive, Again, which Oprah selected as her 82nd Book Club pick.
“I fell in love with Olive not despite her flaws, but because of them,” Oprah said of the endearingly prickly character back in 2019, “She’s so one 100 percent authentically herself.”
Tell Me Everything gives us the interconnected stories of love, heartbreak, longing—and even possible murder— held within this small, close-knit community.
Longtime Strout readers will be excited to see Olive finally cross paths with some of the other characters from the author’s literary universe including Bob Burgess of the novel The Burgess Boys and Lucy Barton ofLucy by the Sea. But if you’ve never even heard of Elizabeth Strout, don’t sweat it; as Oprah points out, “You don’t need to read Strout’s previous work because everything you’ll need to know is contained within the pages of this marvelous book.”
Read along with Oprah’s Book Club by following the schedule below. You can also join in on weekly discussions on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok! #ReadWithUs.
Week 1: Book 1
Pages 3-98
Discussion Begins on Saturday, September 21.
Week 2: Books 2 & 3
Pages 99-207
Discussion Begins on Saturday, September 28.
Week 3: Book 4
Pages 208-326 (End)
Discussion Begins on Saturday, October 5.
Charley Burlock is the Books Editor at Oprah Daily where she writes, edits, and assigns stories on all things literary. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from NYU, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. Her work has been featured in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, the Apple News Today podcast, and elsewhere. You can read her writing at charleyburlock.com.
