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 2007 – Selection
Ghosts of Saint-Michel
by Jake Lamar
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312289256
Imprint: Minotaur Books
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Parent Company: Minotaur Books
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February 2007 – Selection (Author of the Year)
The Pursuit of Happyness
by Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Publication Date: Oct 24, 2006
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780060744878
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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March 2007 – Selection
Jump at the Sun: A Novel
by Kim McLarin
Publication Date: Jan 01, 2006
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060528508
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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April 2007 – Selection
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
Publication Date: Aug 28, 2007
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060557577
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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May 2007 – Selection
The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty
by Lawrence Otis Graham
Publication Date: Jul 03, 2007
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060985134
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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June 2007 – Selection
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2007 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Jan 08, 2008
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780767915472
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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July 2007 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
The Other Brother
by Brandon Massey
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2006
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780758210715
Imprint: Kensington
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Parent Company: Kensington Publishing Corp.
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August 2007 – Selection
Ancestor Stones
by Aminatta Forna
Publication Date: Sep 10, 2007
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780802143211
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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September 2007 – Selection
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York
by Mat Johnson
Publication Date: Jan 23, 2007
List Price: $19.95
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781582340999
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Parent Company: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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October 2007 – Selection
The Importance of Being Dangerous
by David Dante Troutt
Publication Date: Jun 03, 2008
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060789305
Imprint: Harper Paperbacks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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November 2007 – Selection
Iola Leroy
by Frances E. W. Harper
Publication Date: Dec 10, 1999
List Price: $19.00
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780807065198
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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December 2007 – Selection
You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of the Way
by Connie Briscoe, Lolita Files, and Anita Bunkley
Publication Date: Feb 20, 2007
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780373830596
Imprint: Kimani Press
Publisher: Kimani Press
Parent Company: News Corp