Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Book Club Follows In Oprah’s Footsteps

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg may be the Oprah Winfrey of the new millennium. Following in the footsteps of Oprah's famous book club, Mark Zuckerberg's new club is getting back to Facebook's college roots by highlighting the Book part of Facebook.

Zuckerberg took to Facebook with a length post asking followers to join his new page "A Year of Books." By Sunday afternoon, the page had more than 100,000 likes.

"I'm excited for my reading challenge. I've found reading books very intellectually fulfilling. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books," Zuckerberg wrote.

"My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week - with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies," Zuckerberg continued.

Oprah opened a digitally interactive version of her book club, Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and she has over 138,000 Twitter followers, though she's not on Facebook.

Zuckerberg's A Year of Books group challenges members to read a new title every two weeks. Mark Zuckerberg is already hitting Oprah-sized numbers. The Facebook book club's first selection is already sold out on Amazon. Moises Naim's "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be," was out of stock Sunday on Amazon.com and had a sales ranking of No. 123.

Naim is an award-winning columnist, author and television host, a former trade minister in his native Venezuela. He is a distinguished fellow in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Zuckerberg has called Virgil's "The Aeneid" his favorite book.

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