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 2007 – Selection
Ghosts of Saint-Michel
by Jake Lamar
Minotaur Books (May 30, 2006)
Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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February 2007 – Selection (Author of the Year)
The Pursuit of Happyness
by Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Amistad (Oct 24, 2006)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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March 2007 – Selection
Jump at the Sun: A Novel
by Kim McLarin
Harper Perennial (Jan 01, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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April 2007 – Selection
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2007)
Amistad (Aug 28, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 416 pages
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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
Harper Perennial (Jul 03, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 512 pages
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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
2-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2007 BCALA Literary Award
Anchor (Jan 08, 2008)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 528 pages
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July 2007 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
The Other Brother
by Brandon Massey
Kensington (Jul 01, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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August 2007 – Selection
Ancestor Stones
by Aminatta Forna
Grove Press (Sep 10, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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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
Bloomsbury USA (Jan 23, 2007)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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October 2007 – Selection
The Importance of Being Dangerous
by David Dante Troutt
Harper Paperbacks (Jun 03, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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November 2007 – Selection
Iola Leroy
by Frances E. W. Harper
Beacon Press (Dec 10, 1999)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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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
Kimani Press (Feb 20, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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