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 1997 – Selection
Big Girls Don’t Cry
by Connie Briscoe
One World/Ballantine (Jul 01, 1997)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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February 1997 – Selection
Nappy: Growing Up Black and Female in America
by Aliona L. Gibson
Writers and Readers Publishing (Jul 01, 2000)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 176 pages
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March 1997 – Selection
Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice
by April Sinclair
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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April 1997 – Selection
Don’t Block the Blessings
by Patti Labelle
Riverhead Hardcover (Oct 04, 1996)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 305 pages
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May 1997 – Selection
The Wedding: A Novel
by Dorothy West
Anchor (Jan 01, 1996)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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June 1997 – Selection
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
by J. California Cooper
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Voted #60 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Anchor (Sep 01, 1996)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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July 1997 – Selection
Tumbling: A Novel
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Harper Perennial (Jun 29, 2010)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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August 1997 – Selection
Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6)
by Walter Mosley
Fiction, Hardcover, 244 pages
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September 1997 – Selection
The Hand I Fan With
by Tina McElroy Ansa
Anchor (Dec 29, 1997)
Fiction, Paperback, 480 pages
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October 1997 – Selection
He Say, She Say
by Yolanda Joe
Grand Central Publishing (Feb 01, 1998)
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
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November 1997 – Selection
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven
by Dawn Turner Trice
Anchor (Feb 28, 1998)
Fiction, Paperback, 318 pages
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December 1997 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Tryin’ To Sleep In The Bed You Made
by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
St. Martin’s Press (Jan 08, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback
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