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.
January 2006 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Babylon Sisters: A Novel
by Pearl Cleage
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Publication Date: Mar 29, 2005
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780345456090
Imprint: One World/Ballantine
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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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
Publication Date: Apr 05, 2005
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780385511476
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2006 – Selection
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Publication Date: Aug 29, 2006
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780143037743
Imprint: Penguin Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2006 – Selection
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
by Michael Eric Dyson
Publication Date: Jan 24, 2006
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780465017201
Imprint: Basic Civitas Books
Publisher: Perseus Books
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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May 2006 – Selection
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by ZZ Packer
Publication Date: Feb 03, 2004
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781573223782
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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June 2006 – Selection
Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas
Publication Date: Apr 12, 2016
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 346 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781572841956
Imprint: Agate
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Parent Company: Agate Publishing, Inc
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July 2006 – Selection
Fledgling: A Novel
by Octavia Butler
Publication Date: Sep 08, 2005
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781583226902
Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Parent Company: Seven Stories Press
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August 2006 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Publication Date: Apr 07, 2014
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781401944322
Imprint: Hay House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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September 2006 – Selection
Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Publication Date: Sep 19, 2006
List Price: $28.99
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780743449045
Imprint: Washington Square Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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October 2006 – Selection
They Tell Me Of A Home: A Novel
by Daniel Black
Publication Date: Dec 29, 2020
List Price: $9.99
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250802811
Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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November 2006 – Selection
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
Publication Date: Oct 31, 2006
List Price: $28.00
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780374530471
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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December 2006 – Selection
The Covenant with Black America
by Tavis Smiley
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- 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
Publication Date: Feb 22, 2006
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 254 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780883782774
Imprint: Third World Press
Publisher: Third World Press
Parent Company: Third World Press