Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2008

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

January - The Big Sleep

3.89

Raymond Chandler

February - American Pastoral

Philip Roth

March - 1491 (NF)

3.97

Charles C. Mann

April - 100 Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May - Dancing To Almendra

3.66

Mayra Montero

June - Tender Is the Night

3.98

F. Scott Fitzgerald

July - Mudbound

4.40

hillary Jordan

August - Billy Budd

4.19

Herman Melville

August - The Incident At Owl Creek (SS)

4.54

Ambrose Bierce

September - One Minute to Midnight (NF)

4.54

Michael Dobbs

October - Steppenwolf

3.73

Herman Hesse

November - The Water Method Man

4.05

John Irving

December - Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight

3.87

Alexandra Fuller

2008 Average

4.04

Average of 11 Titles

2009

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

January - Frankenstein

4.36

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

February - Indignation

4.31

Philip Roth

March - White Noise

3.04

Don DeLillo

April - American Lion (NF)

3.87

John Meacham

May - A Mercy

4.49

Toni Morrison

June - Life/Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

3.88

Bill Bryson

July - Oil

4.01

Upton Sinclair

August - The Sparrow

4.37

Mary Doria Russell

September - History Of Love

3.58

Nicole Krauss

October - Sophie's Choice

4.64

William Styron

November - Short History of Tractors/Ukraine

2.93

Marina Lewycka

December - No Selection/ Holiday Meeting

N/A

2009 Average

3.95