This is the 2024 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet on the last Sunday of each month. Please call to set up the meeting if your selection is being read. Check us out on the web via FaceBook (Bobby LaGrange RifRaff book club) for meeting details and updates or the website at http://condor.depaul.edu/~rstuba Send e-mail comments and critiques prior to the suggested meeting date to rifraffbc@hotmail.com You could always give us a call for details of the meeting if you are interested in discussing any of the books.


SUNDAY January 28, 2024 - RS

The Perfect Nanny

by Leila Slimani 228 pages

A suspense thriller story of a perfect nanny turned imperfect.


Sunday February 25, 2024 - RS

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite 240 pages

Darkly funny novel of a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.


SUNDAY March 31, 2024 - BC

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, The Selected Stories of Bette Howland

by Bette Howland 336 pages

Short stories that give the reader a birds eye view of the Jewish population in the westside of Chicago.


SUNDAY April 28, 2024 - BC

Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses " No, But " Thinking and Improves Creativity-Collaboration

by Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton 256 pages

Executives from the Second City reveal improvisational techniques that can help develop innovators.


SUNDAY May 26, 2024 - RS

Vintage Contemporaries: A Novel

by Dan Kois 256 pages

New York coming of age novel about the power of leaning into the moment and learning to forgive ourselves.


SUNDAY June 30, 2024 - RW

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

by Carrie Brownstein 280 pages

Intimate and revealing narrative of escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue.


SUNDAY July 28, 2024 - RS

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

by Maria Bamford 287 pages

Hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health and the comfort of rigid belief systems.


SUNDAY August 25, 2024 - BC

The Perfect Son

by Freida McFadden 371 pages

A gripping psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist.


SUNDAY September 29, 2024 - RS

Big Swiss: A Novel

by Jen Beagin 336 pages

A sex therapist's transcriptionist falls in love with her client while listening to her sessions.


SUNDAY October 27 2024 - RS

Lone Woman: A Novel

by Victor LaValle 304 pages

A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk and a town on the edge of nowhere.


SUNDAY November 24, 2024 - RS

Silver Nitrate

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 336 pages

Dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film.


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