Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2014

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

January - An American Tragedy

4.04

Theodore Dreiser

February - Of Human Bondage

4.49

W. Somerset Maugham

March - The Sound of Things Falling

3.66

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

April - Empire of the Summer Moon (NF)

4.24

S.C. Gwynne

May - Gone Girl

3.34

Gillian Flynn

June - The Historian

3.89

Elizabeth Kostova

July - Aimless Love (Poetry)

4.41

Bill Collins

August - No Meeting

N/A

September - Catherine the Great (NF)

4.17

Robert K. Massie

October - Death Comes for the Archbishop

3.04

Willa Cather

November - The Goldfinch

4.60

Donna Tartt

December - Holiday Meeting

N/A

2014 Average

3.99

Average of 10 Titles

2015

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

January - A Visit From the Goon Squad

3.14

Jennifer Egan

February - The Bully Pulpit (NF)

4.02

Doris Kearns Goodwin

March - Alias Grace

4.62

Margaret Atwood

April - Invisible Man

4.62

Ralph Ellison

May - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

3.89

Robert Heinlein

June - Sabbath's Theater

3.94

Philip Roth

July - Wolf Hall

3.13

Hilary Mantel

August - Paris Trout

4.10

Pete Dexter

September - The Sound and the Fury

3.81

William Faulkner

October - The Graves are Walking (NF)

3.38

John Kelly

November - Transatlantic

3.93

Colum McCann

December - Silas Marner

4.28

George Eliot

2015 Average

3.90

Average of 12 Titles

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