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. 

Note: at the January meeting, we decided to watch the three-part PBS video that is based on Your Inner Fish and discuss it in July, a month that we usually reverse for seeing a movie together. That book was on the voting list, so I removed it from the table below.

Candidate	Average Rating
Gut	8.88
Hamnet	8.64
Hidden Life of Trees	8.50
Caste	8.22
The Stranger	7.56
Trust Exercise	7.40
Writers and Lovers	7.00
Fates and Furies	6.72
Underland	6.62
Normal People	6.60
Americanah	6.18
Suffrage	6.14
Lost City of Z	6.08
Unsheltered	6.06
The Yellow House	5.84
Lincoln in the Bardo	5.36