Controversial Books for Desolate

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.421 3.86 Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences by Robert Bruce
1.167 2.93 Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac
1.135 3.77 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism] by James Joyce
1.131 3.35 Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit
1.114 3.62 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.112 3.46 Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe
1.098 3.78 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1.097 3.40 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
1.082 3.82 The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
1.047 3.56 Journals by Kurt Cobain
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.023 3.84 Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
1.020 3.65 Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.019 3.75 The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
1.013 3.63 Smile, You're Traveling (Black Coffee Blues Part 3) by Henry Rollins
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.004 3.81 The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
0.991 3.46 Where's Mom Now That I Need Her?: Surviving Away from Home by Betty Rae Frandsen
0.990 2.87 Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth
0.987 4.01 The Transformation [Metamorphosis] and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime by Franz Kafka
0.978 3.95 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.977 4.00 Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
0.976 4.02 Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
0.968 3.77 Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) by Mary Shelley
0.968 3.72 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.968 3.34 Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk by Hunter S. Thompson
0.965 3.60 In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
0.962 3.80 Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
0.946 4.16 Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion by Mickey Hart
0.940 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.930 4.07 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.930 3.44 Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
0.928 4.07 The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.920 3.76 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
0.912 3.48 Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them by Hans Biedermann
0.902 3.32 Eye scream by Henry Rollins
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sófocles
0.897 3.76 Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
0.895 3.97 The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson
0.883 4.01 Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor
0.880 4.03 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
0.878 4.37 Transfigurations by Alex Grey
0.873 3.89 The Reprieve by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.869 4.35 Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by Alex Grey
0.867 3.67 Descriptionary by Marc McCutcheon
0.866 3.90 A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
0.854 4.15 The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.830 4.29 Night by Elie Wiesel
0.818 3.69 What is Literature? by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.804 3.76 Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine by Maria Reidelbach
0.803 3.87 Introducing Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz
0.797 4.27 Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by John Frederick Nims
0.785 4.09 The Top 500 Poems by William Harmon
0.778 3.57 Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown
0.746 4.10 Blood Song: A Silent Ballad by Eric Drooker
0.695 4.33 The Law Is For All: The Authorized Popular Commentary of Liber Al Vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
0.687 4.53 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman