Archived Title Selections & Ratings

2020

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

January - The Warmth of Other Suns (NF)

4.48

Isabel Wilkerson

February - Sula

4.39

Toni Morrison

March - The Moviegoer

3.79

Walker Percy

April - My Antonia

4.79

Willa Carter

May - Homegoing

3.83

Yaa Gyasi

June - The Somme (NF)

3.65

Peter Hart

July - Crime and Punishment

4.79

Fyodor Dostoevsky

August - Animal Farm

4.03

George Orwell

September - Look Homeward Angel

4.58

Thomas Wolfe

October - Caste (NF)

4.65

Isabel Wilkerson

November - The Shipping News

4.29

Annie Prouix

December - The Ice at the End of the World - (NF)

3.96

John Gertner

2020 Average

4.27

Average of 12 titles

2021

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

January - Adventures of Augie March

4.23

Saul Bellow

February - The Overstory

4.38

Richard Powers

March - The Age of Innocence

4.62

Edith Wharton

April - The Fixer

4.33

Bernard Malamud

May - The Origins of Totalitarianism (NF)

4.50

Hanna Arendt

June - A Handful of Dust

3.75

Evelyn Waugh

July - The Bridge at San Luis Rey

3.90

Thornton Wider

August - Arthur and George

4.45

Julian Barnes

September - Ironweed

4.77

William Kennedy

October - Appeasement (NF)

4.26

Tim Bouverie

November - The Beautiful and the Damned

3.23

F Scott Fitzgerald

December - A Passage to India

3.99

E.M. Forster

2021 Average

4.20