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 1993 – Selection
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
by bell hooks
Publication Date: Oct 29, 2014
List Price: $27.95
Format: Paperback, 250 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781138821750
Imprint: Routledge
Publisher: Routledge
Parent Company: Taylor & Francis
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February 1993 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Publication Date: Aug 10, 1993
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 332 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780345383952
Imprint: Ballantine Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
Read a Description of Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
March 1993 – Selection
And Do Remember Me
by Marita Golden
Publication Date: Jul 19, 1994
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 206 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780345382719
Imprint: Ballantine Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 1993 – Selection
One Dark Body
by Charlotte Watson Sherman
Publication Date: Oct 27, 2020
List Price: $8.99
Format: Paperback, 210 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780984709533
Imprint: Sweet Inspiration Press
Publisher: Sweet Inspiration Press
Parent Company: Sweet Inspiration Press
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May 1993 – Selection
Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography
by Zora Neale Hurston
Publication Date: Nov 02, 2010
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062004833
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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June 1993 – Selection
Joy
by Marsha Hunt
Publication Date: Jan 01, 1991
List Price: $19.95
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525249429
Imprint: Dutton Adult
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
Read a Description of Joy
July 1993 – Selection
Buppies, B-boys, Baps, And Bohos: Notes On Post-soul Black Culture
by Nelson George
Publication Date: Jul 12, 2001
List Price: $19.99
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780306810275
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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August 1993 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories
by Barbara Summers
Publication Date: Jun 01, 1994
List Price: $8.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781567430431
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
Read a Description of Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories
September 1993 – Selection
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel
by Ntozake Shange
Publication Date: Sep 28, 2010
List Price: $19.99
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312541248
Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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October 1993 – Selection
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
- A Top 10 Book in the “Science Fiction Books” Category
- Voted #15 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2004
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780807083697
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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November 1993 – Selection
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
by Elaine Brown
- A Top 10 Book in the “Books about the Black Panther Party” Category
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: Dec 01, 1993
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 452 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780385471077
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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December 1993 – Selection
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Voted #16 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- A 1997 Oprah Book Club Selection
- 1994 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1994
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375702709
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann