Here are the voting results for the next series of LAVA discussion books.  The vote was based on this list of candidates.  The average vote for each book is at the right, with higher scores indicating increasing preference on a scale of 1 to 10.  The first eight books will go into the LAVA schedule and the most popular of the remaining books will be eligible for next year’s vote. 

Candidate	Average Rating
The Dutch House	8.61
Evil Geniuses	8.44
Frederick Douglass	8.00
Nickel Boys	7.67
The Splendid and the Vile	7.56
A Tale for the Time Being	6.89
Warlight	6.72
Wind in the Willows	6.72
Americanah	6.61
Lincoln in the Bardo	6.33
The Stranger	6.22
Lost City of Z	6.00
Unsheltered	5.78
Fates and Furies	5.72
Hero of the Empire	5.67
Overstory	5.50
Where the Crawdads Sing	5.44
Moonglow	5.06
One Giant Leap	4.83
A Gentleman in Moscow	4.78