This is the 2009 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Please call to set up the meeting if your selection is being read. 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 And you could always give us a call for details of the meeting if you are interested in discussing any of the books.


SUNDAY January 25, 2009

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri 198 pages

Bengali writer tells stories that navigate between the cultural Indian traditions they inherited and the baffling new modern world.


Sunday February 22, 2009

Cry, The Beloved Country

by Alan Paton 283 pages

South African story of the tragedies that flow from racial persecution.


SUNDAY March 29, 2009

War with the Newts

by Karel Capek 348 pages

European Classic . An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of anti-utopian fantasy.


SUNDAY April 26, 2009

God's Middle Finger

by Richard Grant 228 pages

British travel writer barely survives a trip along the Sierra Madre.


SUNDAY May 31, 2009

The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre That Revolutionized Comedy

by Janet Coleman 362 pages

The Compass Players, in Bohemian 1950s Chicago . Skits that satirized American culture and influenced the Second City Theatre.


SUNDAY June 28, 2009

The Last Patriot

by Brad Thor 342 pages

Retired agent discovers a secret that could rock the Islamic faith.


SUNDAY July 26, 2009

The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories

by Richard Bausch 224 pages

A collection of short stories told with deep moving insight and wit.


SUNDAY August 30, 2009

Oblivion: Short Stories

by David Foster Wallace 336 pages

A collection of stories by this talented 43 year old author who hung himself last year in his home. Stories go from grotesque to gross-out.


SUNDAY September 27, 2009

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

by George V. Higgins 183 pages

Classic novel from one of Americas best crime novelists.


SUNDAY October 25, 2009

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie 275 pages

Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all time.


SUNDAY November 29, 2009

The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein 336 pages

Over the top drama of what a dog is thinking.


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