Oprah's new book club pick is an author she's loved for years. What'd she choose?

Oprah Winfrey has selected her first book club pick of 2026, and it's an author she's chosen before. Here's why she loved this \

Oprah Winfrey's first book club pick of 2026 is finally here.

Oprah's Book Club chose "Kin" by Tayari Jones as its February book, a literary historical novel that follows two young motherless girls growing up in the Jim Crow-era South.

This is the second time Winfrey has selected a book by Jones. Winfrey called her writing a gift that "can touch us soul to soul" when she chose her novel "An American Marriage" in 2018. "An American Marriage" was also named on former President Barack Obama's summer and year-end reading list and won the Women's Prize for Fiction. 

In "Kin," Jones returns with another Southern novel brimming with familial bonds, betrayals, reflection and uncharted paths.

"Tayari's storytelling washed over me like a trip back home, like a visit with my own 'kin' I hadn't seen in a long while," Winfrey said in a statement. "It is masterful and reminds us of the true bonds we share with family, whether biological or chosen."