Jan, 2006.  Here are the voting results for LAVA discussion books for the period April 2006 to April 2007.  The average vote for each book is at the right with higher scores indicating increasing preference on a scale of 1 to 10.  The first eight books will go into the schedule and the most popular of the remaining books will be eligible for next year’s vote.  Books in italics are longer books that were reserved for our summer reading.  Twenty people participated in the voting. 

 

 

The Kite Runner

9.6

Feast of Love

8.2

Life of Pi

7.9

The Adventures of Augie March

7.8

Copies in Seconds

7.4

Love in the Time of the Cholera

7.1

Stones for Ibarra

7.1

Summons to Memphis

7.0

Dreams from My Father

6.9

Eventide

6.9

Freakonomics

6.6

Human Stain

6.5

Mind at a Time

6.5

Songlines

6.0

Metamorphosis

5.9

Pride and Prejudice

5.7

Will in the World

5.6

Forgetting

5.5

Alias Grace

5.5

Never Let Me Go

5.4

Amsterdam

4.6

By the Lake

4.2

Howards End

3.8

Washington Square

2.9