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.
January 1992 – Selection
The Street: A Novel
by Ann Petry
- A Top 10 Book in the “Urban Fiction Books – Pre 1999” Category
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Mar 28, 1999)
Fiction, Paperback, 448 pages
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February 1992 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Bailey’s Cafe
by Gloria Naylor
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Vintage Books (Aug 31, 1993)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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March 1992 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara Neely
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
St. Martin’s Press (Feb 01, 1992)
Fiction, Hardcover, 180 pages
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April 1992 – Selection
Jazz
by Toni Morrison
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Vintage Books (Jun 08, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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May 1992 – Selection
High Cotton: A Novel
by Darryl Pinckney
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Picador (Feb 07, 2017)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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June 1992 – Selection
1959: A Novel
by Thulani Davis
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Grove Press (Sep 02, 2001)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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July 1992 – Selection
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters
by Mary Helen Washington
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Nonfiction, Paperback, 271 pages
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August 1992 – Selection
Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers
by Mary Helen Washington
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Anchor (Dec 01, 1990)
Fiction, Paperback, 432 pages
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September 1992 – Selection
Waiting To Exhale
by Terry McMillan
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Viking Press (May 28, 1992)
Fiction, Hardcover, 409 pages
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October 1992 – Selection
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (Radical Thinkers)
by Michele Wallace
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Verso Books (Nov 08, 2016)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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November 1992 – Selection
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
by Octavia Butler
- Voted #43 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Grand Central Publishing (Mar 17, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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