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.
Added Bonus: If you purchase all 6 books from the July – December 2022 list, you will get free shipping and no sales tax (unless you ship to the state of Florida). Plus, half of the profit from the sales of these books will be donated to the Go On Girl! Book Club’s Scholarship Fund.
January 2002 – Selection
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
by Randall Robinson
Publication Date: Jan 01, 2001
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780452282100
Imprint: Plume
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2002 – Selection
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
by Zora Neale Hurston
Publication Date: Nov 27, 2001
List Price: $25.00
Format: Hardcover, 316 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780060188931
Imprint: Harper
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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March 2002 – Selection
The Future Has a Past
by J. California Cooper
Publication Date: Oct 16, 2001
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385496810
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2002 – Selection
The Fall of Rome: A Novel
by Martha Southgate
Publication Date: Jan 07, 2003
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 219 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780743227216
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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May 2002 – Selection
The Justus Girls
by Slim Lambright
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2002
List Price: $12.95
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060959272
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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June 2002 – Selection
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
by Hans J. Massaquoi
Publication Date: Feb 06, 2001
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060959616
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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July 2002 – Selection
Black No More: Being An Account Of The Strange And Wonderful Working Of Science In The Land Of The Free, A.D. 1933-1940
by George S. Schuyler
Publication Date: Nov 07, 1989
List Price: $19.95
Format: Paperback, 222 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781555530631
Imprint: Northeastern
Publisher: Northeastern
Parent Company: Northeastern
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August 2002 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Finding Fish: A Memoir
by Antwone Fisher
Publication Date: Dec 18, 2001
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 339 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780060007782
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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September 2002 – Selection
Shades of Jade: A Novel (Strivers Row)
by Gloria Mallette
Publication Date: Jun 19, 2001
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375757433
Imprint: Villard
Publisher: Villard
Parent Company: Villard
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October 2002 – Selection
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
by Charles Henry Rowell
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Publication Date: Jan 12, 2002
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312288983
Imprint: St. Martin’s Press
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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November 2002 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Harlem Redux: A Novel
by Persia Walker
Publication Date: May 28, 2002
List Price: $54.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780743224970
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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December 2002 – Selection
All I Need
by Jacquie Bamberg Moore
Publication Date: Aug 10, 2001
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 280 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780971192409
Imprint: Reading Time Publishing
Publisher: Reading Time Publishing
Parent Company: Reading Time Publishing