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 2004 – Selection (Author of the Year)
The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
Vintage (May 27, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 672 pages
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February 2004 – Selection
The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters
by Tonya Bolden
Adams Media Corporation (Jan 01, 2004)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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March 2004 – Selection
Getting Mother’s Body: A Novel
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Random House Trade Paperbacks (Apr 13, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
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April 2004 – Selection
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
by Alice Walker
Ballantine Books (Oct 02, 2001)
Fiction, Paperback, 234 pages
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May 2004 – Selection
Hottentot Venus: A Novel
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Anchor (Nov 09, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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June 2004 – Selection
Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex
by Marita Golden
Anchor (Jan 04, 2005)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 208 pages
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July 2004 – Selection
American Desert
by Percival Everett
Adept Publishers (May 05, 2004)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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August 2004 – Selection
The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
Vintage (Mar 08, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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September 2004 – Selection
Bling
by Erica Kennedy
Fiction, Hardcover, 528 pages
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October 2004 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Shifting Through Neutral
by Bridgett M. Davis
Amistad (May 03, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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November 2004 – Selection
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
by James Weldon Johnson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 20th Century” Category
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Dover Publications (May 10, 1995)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 112 pages
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December 2004 – Selection
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
W. W. Norton & Company (Aug 17, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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