Jan 27, 2008.  Here are the voting results for LAVA discussion books for the period April 2008 to April 2009. 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. Seventeen people participated in the voting.

Intuition	8.4
Collapse	8.4
A Thousand Splendid Suns	8.2
The Human Stain	8.1
The Ghost Map	7.8
March	7.3
Mapping Human History	7.1
East of Eden	7.1
Waiting	6.9
Omnivore's Dilemma	6.9
The World to Come	6.8
Eventide	6.6
The Language Instinct	6.5
Lidie Newton	6.1
Moneyball	5.9
The Spiral Staircase	5.6
Divisadero	5.6
Blink	5.4
Three Junes	5.3
The World Without Us	5.3
Songlines	5.1
Northanger Abbey	4.9
Monkeyluv	4.9
The Master	4.9
Who Wrote the Bible	4.8
Behind the Scenes at the Museum	4.6