Book club recommendations & reading guides for books beginning with "R".

59 reading guides for book titles starting with "R"

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Runemarks
by Joanne Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: Oct 2009

Master storyteller Joanne Harris has created a magical and epic romp– a fresh, funny, and wonderfully irreverent new take on the old Norse tales, sure to be enjoyed by readers young and old.

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Running the Rift : A Novel
by Naomi Benaron
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: Oct 2012

Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions.

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Running with Scissors : A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003

The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.

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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon

"I cannot say why it is so important that I make this daily record. Perhaps because I have been ...
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch's 2023 Booker Prize–winning Prophet Song is a speedboat of a novel that hurtles...
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynda Cohen Loigman's delightful novel The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern opens in 1987. The titular ...
Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell

At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...