Jan 29, 2007.  Here are the voting results for LAVA discussion books for the period April 2007 to April 2008. 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. Nineteen people participated in the voting.

Things They Carried	8.5
Atonement	7.9
Gilead	7.8
Dreams from My Father	7.8
Year of Magical Thinking	7.7
Snow	7.5
Crow Lake	7.2
Forgetting	7.2
Collapse	7.1
Waiting	6.6
East of Eden	6.5
Mapping Human History	6.4
Three Junes	6.4
Eventide	6.2
Blink	6.1
Songlines	6.0
Human Stain	5.8
This Boys Life	5.7
Tracks	5.6
Digging to America	5.4
Freakonomics	5.3
Mind at a Time	5.0
Pride and Prejudice	4.3
Metamorphosis	4.0