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 2005 – Selection
Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Little, Brown and Company (Jul 05, 2004)
Fiction, Hardcover, 306 pages
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February 2005 – Selection
Success Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My Nose and Found My Passion
by Lisa Price and Hilary Beard
One World/Ballantine (Apr 27, 2004)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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March 2005 – Selection
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
by Esi Edugyan
Harper Paperbacks (Aug 30, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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April 2005 – Selection
Passing Through
by Colin Channer
One World (Jun 29, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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May 2005 – Selection
The Full Matilda: A Novel
by David Haynes
Broadway Books (May 11, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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June 2005 – Selection
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Harper Perennial (Jul 27, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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July 2005 – Selection
Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?: A Fantastical Tale
by Maryse Conde
Washington Square Press (Aug 30, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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August 2005 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2004)
Algonquin Books (Apr 17, 2012)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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September 2005 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Leaving Cecil Street: A Novel
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Harper Perennial (Mar 01, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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October 2005 – Selection
The Professor’s Daughter: A Novel
by Emily Raboteau
Picador (Jan 24, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 277 pages
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November 2005 – Selection
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
by Nella Larsen
Anchor (Nov 01, 2011)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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December 2005 – Selection
Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Berkley Books (Jan 04, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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