Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List

Launched in 1991, Go On Girl! Book Club, Inc. is one of the largest national reading organizations in the U.S. for Black women. Their reading list spans over a quarter of a century.

January 1998 – Selection (Author of the Year)

Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman

by Jill Nelson

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Imprint: Penguin Books (Feb 01, 1999)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780140277241

Categorized under:

Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Social Science / Media Studies

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February 1998 – Selection (New Author of the Year)

The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

by Akosua Busia

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Imprint: Touchstone (Dec 01, 1997)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
ISBN: 9780671014094

Categorized under:

Fiction / General

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March 1998 – Selection

The Best of Simple

by Langston Hughes

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Imprint: Hill and Wang (Sep 28, 1990)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780374521332

Categorized under:

Fiction / Literary

Selected for 1 Book Club Reading List
Ranked #63 in Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century

April 1998 – Selection

Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story

by Gladys Knight

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Imprint: Hyperion (Oct 07, 1998)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780786883714

Categorized under:

Biography & Autobiography / Music
Biography & Autobiography / Women

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May 1998 – Selection

Keep Still (Marti MacAlister Mysteries)

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

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Imprint: St. Martin’s Paperbacks (Feb 15, 1998)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780312961725

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