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 2000 – Selection
No Time to Die
by Grace Edwards
Publication Date: Jun 15, 1999
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385492478
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2000 – Selection
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson
Publication Date: Mar 01, 2016
List Price: $12.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781574781267
Imprint: The Woodson Series
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Parent Company: Black Classic Press
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March 2000 – Selection
Slapboxing With Jesus
by Victor Lavalle
Publication Date: Oct 05, 1999
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375705908
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2000 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
The Coldest Winter Ever
by Sister Souljah
- A Top 10 Book in the “Urban Fiction Book – Post 1999” Category
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: Sep 20, 2005
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 255 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780743270106
Imprint: Washington Square Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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May 2000 – Selection
Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
Publication Date: Nov 01, 2000
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 283 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780226649290
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Parent Company: University of Chicago
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June 2000 – Selection
The True History of Paradise: A Novel
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Publication Date: Jul 14, 2009
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 345 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780812979831
Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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July 2000 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Sugar: A Novel
by Bernice L. McFadden
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2001 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Jan 28, 2001
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780452282209
Imprint: Plume
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2000 – Selection
Jubilee
by Margaret Walker
Publication Date: Sep 06, 2016
List Price: $17.99
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780544812123
Imprint: Mariner Books
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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September 2000 – Selection
Men Cry in the Dark
by Michael Baisden
Publication Date: Dec 01, 2011
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 330 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780984776504
Imprint: Baisden Publishing
Publisher: Baisden Publishing LLC
Parent Company: Baisden Publishing LLC
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October 2000 – Selection
Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit and Encourage the Heart
by Donna Marie Williams
Publication Date: Nov 14, 1997
List Price: $20.95
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780684837451
Imprint: Touchstone
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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November 2000 – Selection
Midnight Robber
by Nalo Hopkinson
Publication Date: Mar 01, 2000
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780446675604
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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December 2000 – Selection
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America
by Philippe E. Wamba
Publication Date: Apr 01, 1999
List Price: $19.00
Format: Hardcover, 383 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780756756451
Imprint: Dutton/Penguin
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann