Author Ayana Mathis' "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" is the newest addition to Oprah Winfrey's book club, now known as Oprah's Book Club 2.0.

When a book is added to Oprah's Book Club 2.0, there is every chance of it becoming a best seller. Hence, it is every author's wish to be included in the prestigious club, especially if it is a debutant writer.

And so was the case with author Ayana Mathis. Her first and latest book "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie" has been chosen by Winfrey as the latest addition to her book club. According to the ex-host of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Mathis works can be compared to those of Toni Morrison.

"The opening pages of Ayana's debut took my breath away," said Ms.Winfrey, now the chief executive officer of OWN, her television network. "I can't remember when I read anything that moved me in quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison."

According to a report on NY Times, the novel "tells the story of the Great Migration through the life of an African-American teenager named Hattie Shepherd. Hattie leaves the racial terrorism of Georgia in 1923 for a new life in Philadelphia. The 12 tribes are Hattie's children, and the book follows their lives over the decades that follow. The novel has earned starred pre-publication reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist."

The book will be available for purchase come Thursday. This entry to the Winfrey book club comes as a great endorsement for the book as after this news was broken, the publishers increased the book's first printing to 125,000 copies.

Also because of the endorsement, the publication date has also been moved forward which was initially supposed to take place in January. "We obviously had to advance our on-sale date," Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf said. "The books with the Oprah sticker will be landing today. This is a book that everyone at Knopf is completely enamored of. As a result of Oprah's endorsement we took our printing up to 125,000, from 50,000. All kinds of retail windows have opened."