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 1994 – Selection
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
by Helen Oyeyemi
Knopf (Mar 06, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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February 1994 – Selection
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 9 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
The New Press (Jan 07, 2020)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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March 1994 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Citycide: A Danny Cavanaugh Mystery
by Gary Hardwick
HardBooks Publishing (May 31, 2012)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 246 pages
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April 1994 – Selection
Citizens Creek: A Novel
by Lalita Tademy
Atria Books (Nov 04, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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May 1994 – Selection
Going Home In Chains
by Glenville Lovell
Chattel House Books (Jan 16, 2012)
Fiction, Paperback, 182 pages
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June 1994 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Saint Monkey: A Novel
by Jacinda Townsend
W. W. Norton & Company (Feb 02, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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July 1994 – Selection
Forty Acres: A Novel
by Dwayne Alexander Smith
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2015 BCALA Literary Award
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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August 1994 – Selection (Author of the Year)
An Untamed State
by Roxane Gay
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2015)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grove Press (May 06, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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September 1994 – Selection
The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics)
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Modern Library (Aug 09, 2005)
Poetry, Paperback, 480 pages
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October 1994 – Selection
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
by Barbara Ransby
Yale University Press (Feb 25, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 424 pages
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November 1994 – Selection
Passion’s Pride: Return to the Dawning
by Cathie Wright-Lewis
Hard Ball Press (Dec 10, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
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December 1994 – Selection
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
by Jill Nelson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 1994 American Book Award
Nonfiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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