This is the 2016 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Check us out on the web via FaceBook. Search RifRaff book club for live meeting notes and updates. Go to our official webpage http://condor.depaul.edu/~rstuba Send e-mail comments and book reviews prior to the suggested meeting date to rifraffbc@hotmail.com You could always give us a call for details of the monthly meeting if you are interested in discussing any of the books on this years list.


SUNDAY January 31, 2016 - BC

Man's Search for Meaning

by Victor Frankl 165 pages

Experiences in a concentration camp. Logotherapy in a nutshell.


Sunday February 28, 2016 - BC

The Kid

by Sapphire 373 pages

The story of Precious son, Abdul, opening scene is the day of his mothers funeral.


SUNDAY March 29, 2016 - BC

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash trade

by Adam Mintar 284 pages

Tale of the lucrative garbage industry and more surprisingly, a deeply affecting memoir.


SUNDAY April 24, 2016 - RS

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

by Jan Morris 224 pages

An intriguing vision of a small seaside Italian city and an eloquent reflection on growing old.


SUNDAY May 29, 2016 - RW

Chicago Confidential: A Nathan Heller Novel

by Max Allan Collins 292 pages

Private investigator returns home to Chicago where a congressional probe into organized crime sparks an all-out mob war.


SUNDAY June 26, 2016 - BC

Blood Will Out: The True Story of Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade

by Walter Kirn 362 pages

True story of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter the German con man who claimed to be a Rockefeller.


SUNDAY July 31, 2016 - BC

The Wasp Factory : A Novel

by Iain Banks 184 pages

This Scottish author strikes a balance between horrific content and matter of fact comic delivery.


SUNDAY August 28, 2016 - BC

Love Medicine

by Louise Erdich 275 pages

Unforgettable saga of two families and how their destinies intertwine over the course of fifty years on a North Dakota Indian reservation.


SUNDAY September 25, 2016 - BC

You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me : Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures With Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes

by Nathan Rabin 261 pages

Author spends 2 years immersed in the subcultures surrounding the bands.


SUNDAY October 30 2016 - BC

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

by Lafcadio Hearn 181 pages

A quiet, chilly collection of Japanese ghost stories


SUNDAY November 27, 2016 - RS

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrick Backman 368 pages

Grumpy but lovable old man finds his solitary world rattled when a boisterous family moves next door.


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