Members of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club have been waiting for more than a year for a new book recommendation from the former talk show host. But the good news is, the time has come!

In a video posted on her Book Club website, Oprah says about the new book, "Wow. Wow. I've never read a book like this before!"

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The book she chose is Ruby written by Cynthia Bond. It is a debut novel about the "story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her," as listed on Cynthia's website and has been published since last year.

Oprah revealed that the book was an extremely worthwhile read that sometimes she would have to stop and let it all sink in. She said, "I put it down and waited until I was in bed with the flu to start reading it. I found the language and descriptions so vividly compelling that sometimes I would have to take a breath and repeat the sentences out loud."

Paperback versions of the novel with a printing of 250,000 copies will be available on Tuesday, while the previously printed hardcover version only has 20,000 copies in print. The novel will also be available as an e-book.

Oprah, who is currently captured by the story wasted no time and used her production company, Harpo Films to acquire the film and television rights for Ruby and even scored an interview with the writer, which will be featured in O magazine's March issue.

In the magazine, Oprah gushed about the novel. "Nothing comes close to the experience of reading this book," she said. "When I found out that Cynthia Bond is 53 years old and hasn't written a book before, I couldn't fathom it. Ruby is a vivid, searing novel that penetrates straight through the page and into the reader's heart," she added. 

Bond, who resides in Los Angeles was a graduate at Northwestern University and majored in journalism. Cynthia revealed to Associated Press that she worked on "Ruby" for more than ten years and that there's a possibility that it will be the first of a trilogy. She initially wrote 900 pages for Ruby but later decided to divide it into three books after her agent, as well as mother, suggested it.

As for what inspired the book? Cynthia revealed a family tragedy-her aunt who was involved with a white man got shot by a sheriff and his deputies, who were all rumored to be Ku Klux Klan members, as well as her experience working with the at-risk youth in LA.

Oprah said that the book was so good she wished Maya Angelou were still alive to read it with her. "If Maya had been alive I would have called her before I finished this ('Ruby') and said, 'Oh, my God, you've got to read this book and finish it with me.' "

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