Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2004

Month, Title, Author, Rating (NF- Nonfiction, NR- Not Rated)

January - Slaughterhouse Five

3.78

Kurt Vonnegut

February - Grapes of Wrath

5.00

John Steinbeck

March - Charming Billy

2.92

Alice McDermott

April - The Gathering Storm (NF)

4.63

Winston Churchill

May - The Power and the Glory

4.21

Graham Greene

June - Lie Down in Darkness

3.81

William Styron

July - A Prayer for Owen Meany

4.08

John Irving

August - The Known World

3.75

Edward P. Jones

September - The Professor and the Madman (NF)

3.70

Simon Winchester

October - Babbit

2.91

Sinclair Lewis

November - A Study in Scarlet

3.56

Arthur Conan Doyle

December - A Stranger in a Strange Land

3.25

Robert Heinlein

2004 Average

3.24

Average of 12 Titles

2005

Month, Title, Author, Rating (NF- Nonfiction, NR- Not Rated)

January - Under the Banner of Heaven (NF)

3.75

Jon Krakauer

February - The Honorable Schoolboy

3.50

John LeCarre

March - A House for Mr. Biswas

V.S. Naipal

April - Collapse (NF)

4.29

Jared Diamond

May - Lord Jim

4.67

Joseph Conrad

June - The Fencing Master

3.30

Arturo Perez-Reverte

July - All the Kings Men

4.86

Robert Penn Warren

August - The Kite Runner

4.50

Khaled Hosseini

September - The Sun Also Rises

2.50

Ernest Hemingway

October - A Burnout Case

4.03