Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2010

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

January - Team of Rivals (NF)

4.68

Doris Kearns Goodwin

February - Red and Me

2.00

Bill Russell

March - Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man

3.75

James Joyce

April - Gates of Fire

4.36

Steven Pressfield

May - Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

June - Lancelot

4.14

Walker Percy

July - The Big Short (NF)

4.30

Michael Lewis

August - His Excellency: George Washington (NF)

3.58

Joseph Ellis

September - The Secrets of the Hopewell Box (NF)

4.25

Joseph Ellis

October - City of Thieves

4.36

David Benoiff

November - Of Mice and Men

4.38

Ernest Hemingway

November - The Old Man and the Sea

4.59

Ernest Hemingway

December - No Selection/ Holiday Meeting

N/A

2010 Average

4.04

Average of 11 Titles

2011

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

January - Trinity

4.34

Leon Uris

February - Wise Blood

3.14

Flannery O'Connor

March - The Wake of Forgiveness

3.63

Bruce Machart

April - Toussaint Louverture (NF)

3.75

Madison Smartt Bell

May - No Meeting

June - Cleopatra (NF)

3.79

Stacy Schiff

July - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

4.86

Carson McCullers

August - The Big Rock Candy Mountain

4.93

Wallace Stegner

September - Memoirs of Hadrian

3.67

Marguerite Yourcenar

October - Mr. Peanut

4.44

Adam Ross

November - Dracula

4.08

Bram Stoker

December - no selection

N/A

2011 Average

4.06

Average of 10 Titles

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