Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2018

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

January - In the Garden of Beasts (NF)

4.21

Erik Larson

February - The Call of the Wild

4.17

Jack London

March - The End of the Affair

3.96

Graham Greene

April - Jude the Obscure

3.53

Thomas Hardy

May - Ragtime

4.38

E.L.Doctorow

June - Their Finest Hour (NF)

4.49

Winston Churchill

July - The Good Soldier

4.22

Ford Madox Ford

August - Beloved

4.87

Toni Morrison

September - Sister Carrie

4.08

Theodore Dreiser

October - Native Son

4.15

Richard Wright

November - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

3.93

Yuval Noah Harari

December - Blood Meridian

4.53

Cormac McCarthy

2018 Average

4.21

Average of 12 Titles

2019

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

January - The Human Stain

4.90

Philip Roth

February - The Great Alone

4.09

Kristin Hannah

March - On the Road

3.38

Jack Kerouac

April - Brave New World

4.06

Aldous Huxley

May - Manhattan Beach

3.68

Jennifer Egan

June - Just Mercy (NF)

4.40

Bryan Stevenson

July - Lincoln in the Bardo

4.03

George Saunders

August - Last Bus to Wisdom

4.04

Ivan Doig

September - Sing, Unburied, Sing

4.57

Jesmyn Ward

October - The Only Story

4.37

Julian Barnes

November - Desert Solitaire

4.05

Edward Abbey

December - A Clockwork Orange

3.86

Anthony Burgess

2019 Average

4.12