This is the 2003 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Check the web site at http://condor.depaul.edu/~rstuba for meeting details. You can e-mail comments prior to the meeting date to: rifraffbc@hotmail.com


SUNDAY January 26, 2003

Rapture

by Susan Minot

A horror story novella that documents a liason between on/again off/again lovers.

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SUNDAY February 23, 2003

The Souls of Black Folks

by W. E. B. DuBois

A largely autobiographical book written in 1903. Insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century.

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SUNDAY March 30, 2003

Electroboy

by Andrew Behrman

Put sex, drugs, art forgeries, and manic depression into a blender run it at top speed and out pops this book. A high-octane autobiography.

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SUNDAY April 27, 2003

Stories in an Almost Classical Mode

by Harold Brodkey

A finely tuned exploration of the short story form.

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SUNDAY May 25, 2003

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

A haunting and heartbreaking debut novel about a murdered 14 year old girl who keeps watch over her family from heaven.

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SUNDAY June 29, 2003

Let Them Call Me Rebel

by Sanford Horwitt

The story of a great Chicago community organizer who takes on the mob, the Catholic Church and city hall to fight poverty and oppression in Chicago.

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SUNDAY July 27, 2003

Porno

by Irvine Welsh

Regional comic fiction sequel to Welsh's cult classic "Trainspotting." The gang returns trying to scheme their way into the annals of adult entertainment.

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SUNDAY August 31, 2003

Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

A writer works in low wage America to see how the poor really live.

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SUNDAY September 28, 2003

Down Where the Moon is Small

by Richard Llewellyn

Second book in the series of four by this author of "How Green is My Valley." This might be the first time you need to watch a movie from 1941 before you read the book.

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SUNDAY October 26, 2003

From a Buick 8

by Stephen King

An abandoned 1954 Buick turns out to be a conduit to another dimension.

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SUNDAY November 30, 2003

Santaland Diaries

by David Sedaris

A scathing, funny account of the authors stint as a Christmas elf at Macys. Written in two plays.

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