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Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List

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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)
Cover of Babylon Sisters: A Novel
Babylon Sisters: A Novel
by Pearl Cleage
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One World/Ballantine (Mar 29, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780345456090Publisher: Penguin Random House
February 2006 – Selection
Cover of The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
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
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List Price: $22.95
Doubleday (Apr 05, 2005)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN: 9780385511476Publisher: Penguin Random House
March 2006 – Selection
Cover of On Beauty
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
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List Price: $17.00
Penguin Press (Aug 29, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 464 pages
ISBN: 9780143037743Publisher: Penguin Random House
April 2006 – Selection
Cover of Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
by Michael Eric Dyson
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List Price: $16.99
Basic Civitas Books (Jan 24, 2006)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780465017201Publisher: Perseus Books
May 2006 – Selection
Cover of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by ZZ Packer
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List Price: $16.00
Riverhead Books (Feb 03, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN: 9781573223782Publisher: Penguin Random House
June 2006 – Selection
Cover of Freshwater Road
Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas
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List Price: $15.00
Agate (Apr 12, 2016)
Fiction, Paperback, 346 pages
ISBN: 9781572841956Publisher: Agate Publishing
July 2006 – Selection
Cover of Fledgling: A Novel
Fledgling: A Novel
by Octavia E. Butler
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List Price: $24.95
Seven Stories Press (Sep 08, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9781583226902Publisher: Seven Stories Press
August 2006 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Cover of Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
by Immaculée Ilibagiza
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List Price: $15.99
Hay House (Apr 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781401944322Publisher: Penguin Random House
September 2006 – Selection
Cover of Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel
Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
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List Price: $28.99
Fiction, Paperback, 496 pages
ISBN: 9780743449045Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.