This is the 2004 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 or e-mail comments prior to the meeting date to: rifraffbc@hotmail.com You could always give us a call for details.


SUNDAY January 25, 2004

What's Not to Love: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

by Jonathon Ames

This book crosses the line of "good taste" with tongue in cheek cosmopolitan humor.

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SUNDAY February 29, 2004

White Teeth: A Novel

by Zadie Smith

The debut novel of a young black writer is about mixed-race immigrant family life in the sprawl of London.

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SUNDAY March 28, 2004

The Clarinet Polka

by Keith Maillard

Story of sin and redemption among a Polish-American community in a fading industrial town.

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SUNDAY April 25, 2004

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Fascinating esoteria combined with an international murder mystery.

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SUNDAY May 30, 2004

The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler

A travel writer, a dog, an adventure.

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SUNDAY June 27, 2004

The Wedding

by Nicholas Sparks

A man tries to get his wife to fall in love with him again.

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SUNDAY July 25, 2004

Watchmen

by Alan Moore

Comic book that deconstructs the traditional interpretation of the superhero. Known as the best comic book ever written.

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SUNDAY August 29, 2004

The Blue Moon Circus: A Three-Ring Novel

by Michael Raleigh

Honest storytelling and down home wit about circus freaks in Oklahoma.

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SUNDAY September 26, 2004

Officer Friendly

by Lewis Robinson

A suspenseful volume of stories with strange characters and twists.

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SUNDAY October 31, 2004

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Eric Larson

Horrifying dark side of 19th Century Chicago during the 1893 Worlds Fair.

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SUNDAY November 28, 2004

Everybody Pays: Two Men and the Price of Truth

by Maurice Possley and Rick Kogan

A meat and potatoes tale of murder, memory and the Mafia in Chicago.

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