Oprah Winfrey has named Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents her most important Book Club selection ever. It’s now available on Apple Books at US$14.99 for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay.
Winfrey narrates it in a new video and will be the first-ever guest editor for Apple News. What’s more, her conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Isabel Wilkerson will debut this fall for free, exclusively on Apple TV+.
Publisher Penguin Random House calls Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents “a masterful portrait of the unspoken caste system that has shaped America.” It explores how America has been defined by a rigid hierarchy of human rankings throughout its history and even today.
Customers can read and listen to an exclusive excerpt of Caste on Apple News and further explore the themes highlighted in curated collections on Apple Books and Apple Podcasts. Next week, customers can listen to Apple Music’s Beats 1 host Ebro Darden interview Wilkerson about how her book is reflective of the times.
Later this month, customers can also read a collection of related articles on Apple News, curated by Winfrey as the app’s first-ever guest editor, and next month, they can enjoy a Caste discussion guide on Apple Books to help host their own conversations around the book and the important issues it explores.
