Winfrey selects another memoir for book club

Daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey has named another autobiographical work as the newest pick for her book club.

But this time she's gone with a safer selection: Night by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. 

Winfrey announced on her hit show Monday that the Holocaust survival tale would be the next title she was advocating for her highly influential reading series.

She said she hoped "that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten. That you who read this book will feel, as I do, that these 120 pages … should be required reading for all humanity."

Night draws on Wiesel's experiences as a  teen deported with his family to Auschwitz by the Nazis. The title, first published in French in the 1950s, was the first of Wiesel's more than 40 books, essays and plays.

In addition to writing, Wiesel has been a outspoken critic of racism and genocide, culminating in his being named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Winfrey's last pick, the addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, has been in a storm of controversy since investigative website the Smoking Gun alleged that he had fabricated and exaggerated sections of the book.

The talk show queen voiced her support of Frey when the author was interviewed on Larry King Live last week.

Winfrey did not mention Frey's book on Monday's show.