Suggested Reading

The titles on this list were selected by the general membership and submitted to the GOG Book Review Committee for consideration. After reading and reviewing the books the committee then decides by vote which books will make the Go On Girl Reading list. Our Reading list winners are announced twice a year for the January-June reading period and July-December. Click here to find out which books made the Current Reading List!

Our club strives to read books within a broad range of literary styles and currently focuses on the following genres:

• Anthology - a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works by different authors. Can be either fiction or non-fiction.
• New Author - any fiction or non-fiction work by a previously unpublished writer.
• Novel - an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with the human experience through a usually connected sequence of events. This is fiction. (Known for our purposes as Novel 1 and Novel 2.)
• Autobiographical/Biographical - the biography of a person narrated by himself/the biography of a person narrated by someone else. This is non-fiction.
• Classic - a fiction or non-fiction work of enduring excellence, a typical or perfect example OR at least 20 years old.
• Short Story Collection - a collection of short fiction by the same author.
• Science-Fiction/Fantasy - fiction principally with the impact of actual or imagined science on society or individuals/imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters.
• International - any fiction or non-fiction work written by an author of African descent writing from a cultural perspective/experience outside the United States. NOT restricted to authors living outside the U.S.
• Social Commentary/Cultural Criticism - A work of non-fiction addressing social and cultural issues of interest to people of African descent.
• Mystery - a piece of fiction dealing with the solution of a mysterious crime or event.
• Historical - a fiction or non-fiction work based on a historical event or a period in history; a written narrative of past events.
  

Some suggested reads include: