oprah book club The Oprah Book Club

Are you a fan of the Oprah book club? I am, but on a limited basis. As you probably know the Oprah book club first selection back in 1996 was the novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard. I read it and did enjoy it but would not have said it was one of the best books I ever read. For a while the Oprah book club averaged one new book a month for the next few years. She did discontinued the book club for one year in 2002, saying that she could not keep up with all the reading in order to find contemporary books that she enjoyed.          
  She started up again in 2003 but the  books were selected on a more limited basis and an emphasis was switched to classic works of literature like Steinbecks "East Of Eden". Because of the Oprah book club wide popularity, many little know titles and authors have become bestsellers overnight, sometimes increasing sales by as many as a million copies at time. 
 I guess that's the problem I have with the Oprah book club in part. The value, literary or otherwise, of a book should not rise or fall on one womens opinion.