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 2008 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
Like Trees, Walking: A Novel
by Ravi Howard
Harper Paperbacks (Jan 22, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
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February 2008 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Casanegra
by Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Honored by a 2008 Essence Award
- 2007 Winner African American Literary Awards Show
Atria Books (Jun 19, 2007)
Fiction, Hardcover, 308 pages
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March 2008 – Selection
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
by Rita Williams
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 01, 2006)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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April 2008 – Selection
That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir
by Stacey Patton
Washington Square Press (Sep 16, 2008)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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Read Our Review of That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir
May 2008 – Selection
Daughters Of Men: Portraits Of African-American Women And Their Fathers
by Rachel Vassel
Amistad (Oct 30, 2007)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
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June 2008 – Selection
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories
by J. California Cooper
Doubleday (Apr 10, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 209 pages
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July 2008 – Selection
The New Moon’s Arms
by Nalo Hopkinson
Grand Central Publishing (Feb 23, 2007)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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August 2008 – Selection
Measuring Time: A Novel
by Helon Habila
W. W. Norton & Company (Feb 17, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 383 pages
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September 2008 – Selection
Orange Mint And Honey: A Novel
by Carleen Brice
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2009 BCALA Literary Award
- 2008 Winner African American Literary Awards Show
One World/Ballantine (Feb 12, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 324 pages
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Read Our Review of Orange Mint And Honey: A Novel
October 2008 – Selection
Standing Tall: A Memoir Of Tragedy And Triumph
by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
Knopf (Mar 04, 2008)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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November 2008 – Selection
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Jan 08, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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December 2008 – Selection
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas
by Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper
Atria Books (Oct 02, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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