Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List

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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 2000 – Selection

No Time to Die

by Grace Edwards

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Imprint: Doubleday (Jun 15, 1999)
Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780385492478

February 2000 – Selection

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson

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March 2000 – Selection

Slapboxing With Jesus

by Victor Lavalle

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Imprint: Vintage (Oct 05, 1999)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375705908

April 2000 – Selection (New Author of the Year)

The Coldest Winter Ever

by Sister Souljah

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May 2000 – Selection

Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

by Mary Pattillo-McCoy

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press (Nov 01, 2000)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 283 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226649290

June 2000 – Selection

The True History of Paradise: A Novel

by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

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Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks (Jul 14, 2009)
Fiction, Paperback, 345 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780812979831

July 2000 – Selection (Author of the Year)

Sugar: A Novel

by Bernice L. McFadden

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Imprint: Plume (Jan 28, 2001)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780452282209

August 2000 – Selection

Jubilee

by Margaret Walker

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September 2000 – Selection

Men Cry in the Dark

by Michael Baisden

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Imprint: Baisden Publishing (Dec 01, 2011)
Fiction, Paperback, 330 pages
Publisher: Baisden Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9780984776504

October 2000 – Selection

Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit and Encourage the Heart

by Donna Marie Williams

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November 2000 – Selection

Midnight Robber

by Nalo Hopkinson

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Imprint: Grand Central Publishing (Mar 01, 2000)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780446675604

December 2000 – Selection

Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America

by Philippe E. Wamba

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Imprint: Dutton/Penguin (Apr 01, 1999)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 383 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780756756451