Controversial Books for Monografias

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
1.805 3.25 The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith
1.272 3.47 The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
1.271 3.85 What's So Great about Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza
1.262 4.10 Steps to Christ by Ellen G. White
1.235 3.58 The Book of Good Love by Arcipreste de Hita Juan Ruiz
1.186 3.59 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.180 3.17 The Vortex by José Eustasio Rivera
1.174 2.66 The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
1.174 3.73 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.160 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.159 2.99 A Fable by William Faulkner
1.142 3.71 The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel
1.142 3.46 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.140 3.44 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
1.131 3.61 The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.120 3.73 Heart: A School-Boy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis
1.118 3.48 The Bible as History by Werner Keller
1.112 3.85 Fields of Castile = Campos de Castilla: A Dual-Language Book by Antonio Machado
1.110 3.13 The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
1.106 3.88 The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles by Bruce H. Lipton
1.104 3.69 Jerusalen by J. J. Benitez
1.100 3.39 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.085 4.05 Narraciones extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe
1.082 3.25 Legacy by James A. Michener
1.081 3.87 The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
1.075 3.86 Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.072 3.77 María by Jorge Isaacs
1.069 3.87 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.068 3.93 The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
1.065 3.44 Petals On The Wind by V. C. Andrews
1.064 3.81 More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
1.050 4.16 Dialogues of Plato by Plato
1.046 3.45 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.041 3.85 Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
1.039 3.64 Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1.033 3.55 Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
1.030 3.58 The Making of Mankind by Richard E. Leakey
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.023 3.91 The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel
1.019 4.25 Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
1.017 4.07 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.013 4.03 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
1.006 4.06 The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray by Jorge Amado
1.002 3.62 The Postman by Antonio Skármeta
1.001 3.85 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1.000 3.78 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
0.999 3.65 Tales of Count Lucanor by Manuel Juan
0.997 4.10 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
0.997 3.85 The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.994 3.79 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
0.990 3.92 Crossing the Threshold of Hope by John Paul II
0.988 4.10 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.986 3.93 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.985 3.66 Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
0.983 3.77 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
0.979 3.61 Carrot Top [novel] by Jules Renard
0.978 3.95 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.976 3.58 Discourse on Method by René Descartes
0.975 3.65 Origins by Richard E. Leakey
0.975 3.67 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anónimo
0.974 4.06 The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
0.974 3.66 Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
0.974 3.68 Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James E. Lovelock
0.972 3.95 Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
0.972 3.98 Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo
0.972 3.62 Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
0.970 3.55 L Albergo Delle Donne Tristi (Universale Economica) by Marcela Serrano
0.970 3.98 Martín Fierro by José Hernández
0.968 3.72 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.964 3.80 The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
0.962 3.70 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
0.962 3.94 The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
0.961 3.89 Rimas y Leyendas by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
0.961 3.77 The Poem of the Cid by Anonymous
0.961 3.90 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.960 3.87 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
0.959 3.87 If I Stay by Gayle Forman
0.959 3.40 The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer
0.959 3.68 The Hive by Camilo José Cela
0.957 3.73 The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West
0.956 4.02 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.84 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
0.956 4.02 Alexander the Great by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
0.954 4.13 Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
0.952 3.82 Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne
0.951 3.88 Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod
0.951 3.53 The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
0.950 3.83 In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
0.948 3.86 No Wonder They Call Him the Savior by Max Lucado
0.948 3.53 Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
0.948 3.65 The Song of Roland by Turoldus
0.944 4.15 The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda
0.943 3.99 La tregua by Mario Benedetti
0.942 3.81 Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.942 4.02 The Odyssey by Homer
0.940 3.84 The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
0.940 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 3.47 Easy Money by Jens Lapidus
0.939 3.92 Demian by Hermann Hesse
0.939 4.10 Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar
0.939 3.87 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
0.937 3.68 Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas
0.935 4.22 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.931 3.71 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
0.931 4.15 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
0.930 4.07 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.928 4.06 Blindness by José Saramago
0.926 3.74 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
0.926 3.90 The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
0.925 3.67 Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
0.924 3.75 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
0.923 3.89 The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures by Malba Tahan
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.86 Abel Sánchez by Miguel de Unamuno
0.921 4.28 The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
0.921 3.81 A Plain Account of Christian Perfection by John Wesley
0.920 4.01 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
0.919 4.28 Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes
0.918 3.66 Fuenteovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega Carpio
0.918 3.83 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.918 3.91 Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
0.915 3.80 Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
0.915 3.57 Marianela by Benito Pérez-Galdós
0.914 4.00 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 3.68 Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving
0.912 3.77 The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
0.912 4.11 The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
0.911 3.99 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
0.908 3.81 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.906 3.60 Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares
0.906 3.20 Masada by J. J. Benitez
0.905 4.19 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
0.903 3.86 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
0.903 3.93 Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
0.902 3.81 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
0.901 4.04 Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
0.898 3.84 The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.895 4.30 The Gospel of Life: Evangelium Vitae by John Paul II
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
0.893 4.03 The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
0.892 3.73 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
0.891 3.96 The Clown by Heinrich Böll
0.891 3.99 How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.884 3.84 The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
0.882 3.85 Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes
0.881 4.01 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
0.880 3.69 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
0.880 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.880 4.25 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
0.879 3.80 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
0.879 3.61 The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
0.878 3.93 Escape From Reason: A Penetrating Analysis Of Trends In Modern Thought by Francis A. Schaeffer
0.877 3.43 The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
0.877 3.42 Bad Vibes by Alberto Fuguet
0.871 3.71 No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.869 4.06 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
0.867 4.20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.867 4.08 The Witches by Roald Dahl
0.863 4.01 The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
0.863 3.55 The Second Lady by Irving Wallace
0.862 3.77 A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson
0.861 4.09 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
0.859 4.13 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.858 4.04 Mist by Miguel de Unamuno
0.857 4.07 Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
0.856 3.90 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin
0.856 4.06 Nicholas by René Goscinny
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.852 3.83 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
0.850 4.09 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
0.847 4.48 Novum Testamentum Graece by Eberhard Nestle
0.845 4.10 Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.840 4.13 Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
0.840 3.69 The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
0.837 3.91 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
0.835 3.51 The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking
0.832 4.19 Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI
0.825 4.24 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
0.821 3.89 Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
0.819 3.55 The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind
0.815 4.26 Matilda by Roald Dahl
0.808 3.96 The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati
0.808 4.26 Roots by Alex Haley
0.807 4.28 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
0.807 3.74 The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queirós
0.806 4.40 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.805 3.95 South American Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga
0.798 3.78 Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.787 4.39 Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda
0.786 4.49 Lectures to My Students by C. H. Spurgeon
0.780 4.36 My Tender Matador: A Novel by Pedro Lemebel
0.780 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.770 3.85 The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
0.769 4.03 What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell by Erwin Schrödinger
0.766 3.87 The Duel by Joseph Conrad
0.762 3.78 Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
0.752 3.71 Favorite Greek Myths by Mary Pope Osborne
0.751 3.89 Giant by Edna Ferber
0.745 4.20 The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.733 4.21 Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
0.723 4.05 Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective by Paul A. Colinvaux
0.719 4.24 The Complete Stories, Volume 2 by Isaac Asimov
0.716 4.05 The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens
0.710 4.26 Romancero gitano by Federico García Lorca
0.703 4.28 The Book of Fantasy by Jorge Luis Borges
0.645 4.19 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living by H.R. Maturana