Feb 2, 2009.  Here are the voting results for LAVA discussion books for the period April 2009 to April 2010. 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.

Free Lunch	8.8
Out Stealing Horses	8.5
The Sea	8.5
Benjamin Franklin	8.3
The Moral Instinct	8.2
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	8.1
The Omnivore's Dilemma	7.9
Waiting	7.1
American Pastoral	7.0
Eventide	7.0
The Other Side of the Bridge	7.0
Marie Antoinette	7.0
The Seven Story Mountain	6.9
Here If You Need Me	6.7
The Master	6.7
The World to Come	6.6
The Sheltering Sky	6.3
Slave Girl	6.1
The Space Between Us	5.7
Audition (Barbara Walters)	5.5
Frederick Douglass	5.3
The Spiral Staircase	5.3
How Doctors Think	4.9
Moneyball	4.6
Midnight's Children	4.3