Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2016

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

January - To Explain the World (NF)

3.87

Steven Weinberg

February - Gilead

4.21

Marilynne Robinson

March - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

3.64

Stephen Crane

March - The Turn of the Screw

2.18

Henry James

April - Lowland

4.55

Jhumpa Lahiri

May - To the Lighthouse

3.32

Virginia Woolf

June - The Secret History

4.25

Donna Tartt

July - Song of Solomon

4.52

Toni Morrison

August - Spain In Our Hearts (NF)

3.91

Adam Hochschild

September - All the Light We Cannot See

4.25

Anthony Doerr

October - Murder On the Orient Express

3.14

Agatha Christie

November - Nothing To Be Frightened Of (NF)

3.17

Julian Barnes

December - no selection

N/A

2016 Average

3.75

Average of 12 Titles

2017

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

January - Alexander Hamilton (NF)

4.81

Ron Chernow

February - Exit Ghost

3.90

Philip Roth

March - Purity

3.30

Johathan Franzen

April -Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (NF)

2.64

Paul Theroux

May - It Can't Happen Here

3.88

Sinclair Lewis

June - The Little Friend

3.83

Donna Tart

July - Sons and Lovers

4.23

D.H. Lawrence

August - The Underground Railroad

3.99

Colson Whitehead

September - Hillbilly Elegy (NF)

3.23

J.D. Vance

October - The Blind Assassin

3.34

Margaret Atwood

November - Darkness At Noon

4.61

Arthur Koestler

December - Wide Sargasso Sea

4.01

Jean Rhys

2017 Average

3.81