This is the 2018 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

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SUNDAY January 28, 2018 - RS

Train Dreams: A Novella

by Denis Johnson 116 pages

Gothic sensibilities of wilderness and isolated settings in early America.


Sunday February 25, 2018- BC

Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin 192 pages

Essays on life in Harlem NY written during the 1940s and 1950s era.


SUNDAY March 25, 2018 - SW

A Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood 336 pages

Set in the future, this novel contains such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and forecast.


SUNDAY April 28, 2018 - RS

Mariette in Ecstacy

by Ron Hansen 192 pages

Gripping novel of convent life at the turn of the century.


SUNDAY May 27, 2018 - RW

Assassination Vacation

by Sarah Vowell 258 pages

Author embarks on a US road trip to sites of political violence from Washington DC to Alaska.


SUNDAY June 24, 2018 - MK

Montana Noir

edited by James Grady and Keir Graff 228 pages

Fourteen short stories written by authors with strong emotional ties to the areas particular lifestyle.


SUNDAY July 29, 2018 - BC

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

by Jim Harrison 247 pages

Brown Dog Indian story in search for what is irretrievably lost and the incandescent under the ordinary.


SUNDAY August 26, 2018 - RS

Speedboat

by Renata Adler 192 pages

Newly liberated way of writing views the quality of contemporary consciousness.


SUNDAY September 30, 2018 - BC

The Strangers in the House

by Geaorges Simenon 194 pages

Recluse in a dilapidated mansion raising a teenage daughter stumbles on a murder in his own home.


SUNDAY October 28 2018 - RS

The Thief

by Fuminori Nakamura 224 pages

Crime masterpiece of a Japanese pickpocket.


SUNDAY November 25, 2018 - BC

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty First Century

by Jessica Bruder 273 pages

Immersive reporting that chronicles the lives of older American workers who have taken to the road full time.


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