Feb, 2005.  Here are the voting results for LAVA discussion books for the period April 2005 to April 2006. 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. Fifteen people participated in the voting.

Reading Lolita in Tehran	8.2
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	8.1
The Turn of the Screw	7.9
Arabian Days and Nights	7.9
The Origin of Satan	7.2
Last Orders	7.1
A Fine Balance	7.1
By the Lake	6.4
The Forgetting	5.7
Crossing to Safety	5.6
Washington Square	5.4
Love in the Time of the Cholera	5.3
The Golden Compass	5.3
The Storyteller	5.3
The Great Fire	4.9
Alias Grace	4.7
Nickel and Dimed	4.6
Rising from the Plains	4.2
Full Catastrophe Living	2.5
Empire Falls	2.3