February 12, 2014. Here are the voting results for the next series of LAVA discussion books. The vote was based on this list of candidates. 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 LAVA schedule and the most popular of the remaining books will be eligible for next year’s vote. 16 people participated in the voting.

Candidate	Average Rating

The River of Doubt	8.3
State of Wonder	7.9
Behind the Beautiful Forevers	7.6
Flight Behavior	7.4
The Lifeboat	7.3
Breakfast of Champions	7.2
The Stone Diaries	7.1
The Woman Upstairs	6.8

Mayflower	6.7
The Condition	6.7
Alcott, Louisa May - biography	6.7
Where'd You go, Bernadette	6.6
Newlyweds	6.5
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	6.4
Middlesex	6.4
Walden	6.3
Amy and Isabelle	6.2
Wild	6.2
Gone Girl	6.1
In Evening Class	5.8
Suite Francaise	5.6
Lysistrata	5.3
The Emperor of All Maladies	5.2
Aloft	5.1
Sweet Tooth	4.9
Robots of Dawn	3.9