This is the 2017 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 29, 2017 - RW

The Hunter

by Richard Stark 155 pages

University of Chicago Press, an unlikely publisher, has done crime-fiction fans a great service by returning the first 20 Parker novels to print. Main character declares war on the entire Mob.


Sunday February 26, 2017- BC

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

by Dinaw Mengestu 228 pages

Author is a Fenwick HS graduate. Main character flees the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor section of Washington, D.C.


SUNDAY March 26, 2017 - RS

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance 272 pages

A book to help understand the results of the most recent Presidential election.


SUNDAY April 30, 2017 - PK

Nightmare Alley

by William Lindsay Graham 274 pages

Circus performer who thinks he is better than the geeks gets his comeuppance.


SUNDAY May 28, 2017 - SW

At the Edge of the Orchard

by Tracy Chevalier 289 pages

Main character's past catches up with him and he is forced to confront what he is running from.


SUNDAY June 25, 2017 - KL

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold.

by Daniel James Brown 227 pages

True story of the 1936 Olympic team from the University of Washington as they shock the world by challenging the German boat team rowing for Adolf Hitler.


SUNDAY July 30, 2017 - BC

Perfume: The Story of Murder

by Patrick Suskind, John E Woods (translater) 263 pages

A terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion, leads to murder.


SUNDAY August 27, 2017 - SW

The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel

by Nina George 416 pages

Internationally bestselling and filled with adventure, a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to change people's lives.


SUNDAY September 24, 2017 - RS

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

by Ben Fountain 336 pages

Soldiers, footballers and high rollers looking for a movie deal.


SUNDAY October 29 2017 - BC

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter 128 pages

Her work evokes the powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life and death, the apocalypse.


SUNDAY November 26, 2017 - RS

Listen to Me

by Hannah Pittard 208 pages

Modern gothic style story about a marriage and a road trip gone hauntingly awry.


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