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 2011 – Selection
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
by Maaza Mengiste
Publication Date: Jan 11, 2010
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 305 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780393071764
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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February 2011 – Selection
Brainwashed
by Tom Burrell
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: May 07, 2010
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781401925925
Imprint: SmileyBooks
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2011 – Selection
Buying Time (Angela Evans Series No. 1)
by Pamela Samuels Young
Publication Date: Nov 01, 2009
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 370 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780981562711
Imprint: Goldman House Publishing
Publisher: Goldman House Publishing
Parent Company: Goldman House Publishing
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April 2011 – Selection (New Author of the Year)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2011)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Oct 04, 2011
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780679763888
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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May 2011 – Selection
A Taste of Honey: Stories
by Jabari Asim
Publication Date: Mar 02, 2010
List Price: $13.00
Format: Paperback, 205 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780767919784
Imprint: Broadway Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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June 2011 – Selection (Author of the Year)
Perfect Peace: A Novel
by Daniel Black
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Publication Date: Dec 06, 2011
List Price: $17.99
Format: Paperback, 341 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312571658
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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July 2011 – Selection
Live Again
by Lamar Giles
Publication Date: Apr 22, 2011
List Price: $9.99
Format: Paperback, 172 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781461055266
Imprint: CreateSpace
Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
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August 2011 – Selection
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Publication Date: May 08, 2012
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781616201425
Imprint: Algonquin Books
Publisher: Workman Publishing Co., Inc.
Parent Company: Workman Publishing Co., Inc.
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September 2011 – Selection
Forest Gate: A Novel
by Peter Akinti
Publication Date: Feb 02, 2010
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 210 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781439172179
Imprint: Free Press
Publisher: Free Press
Parent Company: Free Press
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October 2011 – Selection
The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publication Date: Nov 21, 2013
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780486493220
Imprint: Dover Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Parent Company: Dover Publications
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November 2011 – Selection
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
by Otto Penzler
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2009
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781605980577
Imprint: Pegasus Books
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Parent Company: Pegasus Books
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December 2011 – Selection
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2011 BCALA Literary Award
- 2010 Winner African American Literary Awards Show
Publication Date: Jan 11, 2011
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 250 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780385528207
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann