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.

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• 2003 BCALA Literary Award

Publication Date: May 27, 2003
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375712920
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read Our Review of The Emperor of Ocean Park

Read a Description of The Emperor of Ocean Park

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jan 01, 2004
List Price: $12.95
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781580629287
Imprint: Adams Media Corporation
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Parent Company: Adams Media Corporation

Read a Description of The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Apr 13, 2004
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 280 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780812968002
Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of Getting Mother’s Body: A Novel

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Oct 02, 2001
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 234 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780345407955
Imprint: Ballantine Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• 2004 BCALA Literary Award

Publication Date: Nov 09, 2004
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781400032082
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of Hottentot Venus: A Novel

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jan 04, 2005
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781400077366
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: May 05, 2004
List Price: $29.99
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780786869176
Imprint: Adept Publishers
Publisher: Adept Publishers
Parent Company: Adept Publishers

Read a Description of American Desert

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Mar 08, 2005
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781400034291
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of The Dew Breaker

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jun 16, 2004
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781401352158
Imprint: Hyperion Books
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group

Read a Description of Bling

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: May 03, 2005
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060572501
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

Read a Description of Shifting Through Neutral

• A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
• Voted #99 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: May 10, 1995
List Price: $4.00
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780486285122
Imprint: Dover Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Parent Company: Dover Publications

Read a Description of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Aug 17, 2004
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780393325805
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Read a Description of Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women