There are few celebrities who are as open about the hardships they have experienced as the uncrowned queen of talk shows, Oprah Winfrey. But Oprah not only talks about the difficulties of her life with unfiltered honesty, she is also happy to share the practices that make her life easier. These include reading, which she once called “her personal road to freedom”. How serious she is about this is shown by Oprah’s Book Club, her personal book club founded in 1996 (which is now available online), where she has recommended and discussed dozens of books over the past decades.