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

Just Kids	8.4
My Beloved World	8.4
Still Life with Bread Crumbs	8.0
Destiny of the Republic	8.0
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena	7.9
Empire of the Summer Moon	7.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist	7.5
The Newlyweds	7.3

Salvage the Bones	7.0
Year of Wonders	6.9
Truth and Beauty	6.8
Louisa May Alcott biography	6.7
Walden	6.7
Where'd You Go, Bernadette	6.6
The Namesake	6.5
Mayflower	6.5
The Condition	6.4
Unbroken	6.4
Summer in a Glass	6.3
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	6.1
Amy and Isabelle	5.8
Me Before You	5.5
Let the Great World Spin	5.5
The Signature of All Things	5.2
The Goldfinch	5.0
Middlesex	4.8