This week’s Unshelved Book Club features books about the U.S. in 1927, reading, a minor functionary in an afterworld bureaucracy, a future in which 1 in 1,000 people randomly die at a predetermined time and date, a painful period in a writer’s life, a serial wedding guest, futuristic Soviet architecture, and a graphic novel about a witch, a cat, and an owl who spend a lot of time getting high.