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. You may review the complete list below. You’ll definitely discover some great books and authors.
Purchase all 6* books on the January – June 2024 reading list, and you will get 10% off, free shipping, and no sales tax (unless books are shipped to the state of Florida). *Shadow Dancing by Louise Meriwether is out of print, but can be borrowed from your local library and used copies are available on Amazon.
January 1991 – Selection
Lucy: A Novel
by Jamaica Kincaid
Publication Date: Sep 04, 2002
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780374527358
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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February 1991 – Selection
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
by Terry McMillan
Publication Date: Oct 01, 1990
List Price: $29.00
Format: Paperback, 720 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780140116977
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 1991 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Devil In A Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
by Walter Mosley
- Voted #36 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: Sep 17, 2002
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780743451796
Imprint: Washington Square Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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April 1991 – Selection
The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors
by Frances Cress Welsing
- Voted #72 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 27 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: Dec 28, 2004
List Price: $19.95
Format: Paperback, 305 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781602819597
Imprint: Afrikan World Books
Publisher: Afrikan World Books
Parent Company: Afrikan World Infosystems
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May 1991 – Selection
Black Ice
by Lorene Cary
Publication Date: Feb 04, 1992
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 237 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780679737452
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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June 1991 – Selection
The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
- Voted #53 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- A 1997 Oprah Book Club Selection
Publication Date: Apr 21, 2009
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780812980325
Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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July 1991 – Selection
Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
Publication Date: Jul 01, 1998
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 209 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780684855882
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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August 1991 – Selection
The Matter Is Life
by J. California Cooper
Publication Date: Sep 13, 1992
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 227 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385411745
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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September 1991 – Selection
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
by Shelby Steele
Publication Date: Sep 23, 1998
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780060974152
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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October 1991 – Selection
A Measure of Time
by Rosa Guy
Publication Date: Jun 01, 1983
List Price: $16.95
Format: Hardcover, 365 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780030576539
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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November 1991 – Selection
Baby of the Family
by Tina McElroy Ansa
Publication Date: May 31, 1991
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 265 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780156101509
Imprint: Mariner Books
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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December 1991 – Selection
Jim Brown Out of Bounds
by Jim Brown
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1989
List Price: $17.95
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780821728574
Imprint: Zebra
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Parent Company: Kensington Publishing Corp.