Controversial Books for Strehlke

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
1.168 3.89 Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy by L. P. Hartley
1.088 3.56 The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
1.073 3.17 Wilt in Nowhere by Tom Sharpe
1.061 3.66 Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
1.046 4.09 The Best Loved Poems of the American People by Hazel Felleman
1.032 3.32 Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
1.018 4.01 Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton
1.017 4.07 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.43 The Princess of Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
1.010 3.75 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
1.007 3.84 Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine with 48 illustrations by Jean de La Fontaine
1.001 3.65 Andromache by Jean Racine
1.000 3.23 A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac
0.993 3.46 Britannicus by Jean Racine
0.992 4.04 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
0.984 3.66 The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac
0.978 3.38 Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
0.978 3.92 The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki
0.972 3.73 Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
0.962 3.77 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.91 Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.961 3.90 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.960 3.98 Richard III by William Shakespeare
0.957 3.59 A Doctor in Spite of Himself by Molière
0.957 4.15 Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
0.954 4.13 Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
0.952 3.74 Tartuffe by Molière
0.948 3.78 Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
0.948 4.06 King Lear by William Shakespeare
0.944 3.66 The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
0.940 3.26 The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of Three Virtues by Christine de Pisan
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.934 3.91 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
0.934 3.96 A Little History of the World by Ernst Hans Gombrich
0.933 3.73 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
0.930 4.07 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.84 Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac
0.923 3.72 Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
0.921 3.84 Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
0.917 3.84 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
0.917 4.07 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
0.916 3.91 The Penguin Poets: John Donne by John Donne
0.915 3.87 The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac
0.907 4.25 New Catholic Edition of the Holy Bible by Catholic Book Publishing
0.907 3.56 The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
0.907 4.17 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
0.906 4.19 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
0.904 4.06 Epodes and Odes by Horace
0.895 3.90 Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
0.894 3.81 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
0.890 4.19 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
0.884 3.84 The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
0.883 4.08 Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
0.882 3.94 The Physiology of Taste or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
0.877 3.64 Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines
0.876 4.07 The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth
0.872 3.89 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
0.871 3.97 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
0.864 3.73 Persian Letters by Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
0.862 4.19 Shakespeare after All by Marjorie Garber
0.858 4.20 The Family of Man by Edward Steichen
0.850 3.84 Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Cooper
0.847 3.63 The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais
0.845 4.13 The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman
0.842 4.17 Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
0.840 3.84 The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by María Rosa Menocal
0.832 3.88 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
0.816 3.69 Under Orders by Dick Francis
0.795 4.25 The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish Dictionary (El New World Diccionario español/inglés, inglés/español) (Spanish and English Edition) by Salvatore Ramondino
0.791 3.48 César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
0.790 4.16 My Life in France by Julia Child
0.782 3.46 1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
0.781 3.82 The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
0.747 4.20 Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca
0.733 4.12 The Sicilian Vespers, a history of the Mediterranean world in the later 13th century by Steven Runciman
0.724 3.88 DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Japan by DK
0.713 4.05 Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel Chamberlain
0.703 4.57 The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI) by Plato
0.673 4.08 Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
0.659 3.87 The Life of Monsieur de Molière by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
0.623 4.22 The Oxford Dictionary of Popes by John N. D. Kelly
0.583 4.38 Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester