I was browsing a Borders in downtown Chicago when what do I see but this:



People in Chicago are ga-ga for Oprah Winfrey, and while I'm far from her biggest fan (maybe I'll post about that later), I can't help but running into her name just about everywhere. And this was one time I was glad to see it.

I have read a couple of Oprah's book club books with a mediocre response at best, but this kids book list is actually pretty good. I mean, just this Borders display alone features my favorites Sara Zarr, Nick Hornby (although this isn't his best book) and the amazing Mo Willems. Then I started looking into the book list a little more and found Nancy Farmer, S.E. Hinton, Gary Paulsen, Annette Curtis Klause, Jerry Spinelli, Shannon Hale, John Green, Rachel Cohn, E. Lockhart, and some of my favorite illustrators ever. It's like Oprah took my Amazon reading lists and then chose all of the books off of them to make her own list.

When did Oprah get such good taste in YA reading material? And does this mean all of these offers will be on Oprah? If that is so, I might just watch Oprah for the first time since my friend Anna was on there almost two years ago. Okay, I will admit I also watched Oprah once my freshman year in high school when the Spice Girls were on, but there is no accounting for the actions of a 14 year-old.