Culpability (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

Culpability explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, and other nonhuman forces in ways that are thrilling, challenging, and unimaginably provocative.

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Published Jul 8, 2025

380 pages

Average rating: 7.77

415 RATINGS

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Readers say *Culpability* is a gripping, realistic family drama that thoughtfully explores guilt, grief, and the ethical challenges of AI. Many praise...

Larry Burns
Mar 24, 2026
7/10 stars
All AI!
BenRowswell
Nov 08, 2025
9/10 stars
A tale that explores AI which in highly readable, whodunit style. Great character development and a plot that is difficult to predict. The best part, though, is the manner in which the author makes ethical distinctions and prioritizations more compelling by embodying them in the emotions of a fatal car crash and the familiar tensions of family dynamics
SL
Mar 11, 2026
8/10 stars
Culpability was a great read. I found it stimulated me to think about AI and our future, the roles it may play, where it may be super useful, where it could be detrimental. The author also stimulates us in how we react, and or others, family members to a situation, and the complexity of life. Often I believe we are trying so hard to have life easy, simple... Life is complex.
scarroll
Feb 19, 2026
3/10 stars
Lackluster writing and somewhat dishonest about the trajectory and success of Artificial Intelligence
rachel075
Feb 18, 2026
10/10 stars
What a great book on the growing impact to AI in our lives and the moral question behind AI

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