Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List
Launched in 1991, Go On Girl! Book Club 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.
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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: Routledge
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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 and Pearson PLC
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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 and Pearson PLC
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April 1993 – Selection
One Dark Body
by Charlotte Watson Sherman
Publication Date: Oct 26, 2011
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781450282055
Imprint: iUniverse
Publisher: Author Solutions
Parent Company: Najafi Companies
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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 Corporation
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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 and Pearson PLC
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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: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780306810275
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Parent Company: Hachette Livre
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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 Corporation
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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: St. Martin’s Press
Parent Company: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck
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October 1993 – Selection
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
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
Publication Date: Dec 01, 1993
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 452 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780385471077
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann and Pearson PLC
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December 1993 – Selection
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1994
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375702709
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann and Pearson PLC
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