Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series—Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack—is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes.

Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson’s now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the bel...