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 2006 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Babylon Sisters: A Novel
by Pearl Cleage
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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February 2006 – Selection
The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
by Oral Lee Brown and Caille Millner
Doubleday (Apr 05, 2005)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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March 2006 – Selection
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Penguin Press (Aug 29, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 464 pages
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April 2006 – Selection
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
by Michael Eric Dyson
Basic Civitas Books (Jan 24, 2006)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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May 2006 – Selection
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by ZZ Packer
Riverhead Books (Feb 03, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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June 2006 – Selection
Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas
Agate (Apr 12, 2016)
Fiction, Paperback, 346 pages
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July 2006 – Selection
Fledgling: A Novel
by Octavia Butler
Seven Stories Press (Sep 08, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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August 2006 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Hay House (Apr 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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September 2006 – Selection
Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Washington Square Press (Sep 19, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 496 pages
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October 2006 – Selection
They Tell Me Of A Home: A Novel
by Daniel Black
St. Martin’s Griffin (Dec 29, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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November 2006 – Selection
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Oct 31, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 416 pages
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December 2006 – Selection
The Covenant with Black America
by Tavis Smiley
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 6 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Nonfiction, Paperback, 254 pages
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