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Go On Girl! Book Club’s Complete Reading List

Launched in 1991, Go On Girl! Book Club 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.

Added Bonus: If you purchase all 6 books from the July – December 2022 list, you will get free shipping and no sales tax (unless you ship to the state of Florida). Plus, half of the profit from the sales of these books will be donated to the Go On Girl! Book Club’s Scholarship Fund.

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• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Aug 28, 2018
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250305176
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Read a Description of Housegirl: A Novel

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• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2019)

Publication Date: Feb 20, 2018
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250112576
Imprint: St. Martin’s Press
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Read a Description of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists

Publication Date: Feb 20, 2018
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316509640
Imprint: Mulholland Books
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Hachette Livre

Read a Description of Down the River unto the Sea

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• 7 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Publication Date: May 08, 2018
List Price: $24.99
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062748201
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation

Read Our Review of Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Read a Description of Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Mar 06, 2018
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781938235382
Imprint: Hub City Press
Publisher: Hub City Press
Parent Company: Hub City Writers Project

Read a Description of Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel

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• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2019)
• Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2018
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Publication Date: Jan 22, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781501168000
Imprint: Atria / 37 Ink
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation

Read a Description of Heads of the Colored People (paperback): Stories

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• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• A 2018 Oprah Book Club Selection
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
• 2019 BCALA Literary Award

Publication Date: Nov 13, 2018
List Price: $32.50
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781524763138
Imprint: Crown
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read Our Review of Becoming

Read a Description of Becoming

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• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2018
• 2019 Children’s Africana Book Award Winner or Honoree

Publication Date: Mar 06, 2018
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9781250170972
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company (BYR)
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Read a Description of Children of Blood and Bone

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• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• 2018 BCALA Literary Award
• A New York Times Notable Book for 2017

Publication Date: Aug 15, 2017
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781619029224
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Parent Company: Counterpoint

Read a Description of A Kind of Freedom: A Novel

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• 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Nov 01, 2001
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781556520747
Imprint: Lawrence Hill & Co
Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co
Parent Company: Lawrence Hill & Co

Read a Description of Assata: An Autobiography

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• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Publication Date: Mar 17, 2020
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780812988284
Imprint: Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of American Spy: A Novel

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• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jan 30, 2018
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781501154287
Imprint: Atria / 37 Ink
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation

Read a Description of Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

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