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 2021 – Social Commentary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Crown Publishing Group (Nov 17, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 768 pages
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February 2021 – International
His Only Wife
by Peace Adzo Medie
Algonquin Books (Sep 01, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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March 2021 – Nonfiction
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
- A 2025 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2020
Random House (Aug 04, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 496 pages
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April 2021 – Mystery/Suspense
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
by Alyssa Cole
William Morrow (Sep 01, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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May 2021 – Short Stories
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
West Virginia University Press (Sep 01, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 192 pages
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June 2021 – Novel
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Riverhead Books (Jun 02, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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July 2021 – Novel
Wild Women and the Blues
by Denny S. Bryce
Kensington (Mar 30, 2021)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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August 2021 – New Author
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
by Dawnie Walton
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2022)
Atria / 37 Ink (Mar 30, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
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September 2021 – Classic
The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright
Library of America (Apr 20, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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October 2021 – Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror/Speculative Fiction
Creatures of Passage
by Morowa Yejide
Akashic Books (Mar 16, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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November 2021 – Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Amistad (Jan 26, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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December 2021 – Anthology
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
by Natalie Baszile
Amistad (Apr 06, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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