Controversial Books for ainhize

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
1.208 3.35 It‘s Getting Later All the Time by Antonio Tabucchi
1.199 3.26 The Parrot's Theorem by Denis Guedj
1.142 3.47 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.114 3.62 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.113 3.23 Maktub by Paulo Coelho
1.107 3.38 La sombra del Ciprés es alargada by Miguel Delibes
1.096 3.78 Justine by Lawrence Durrell
1.094 3.67 The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.046 4.32 La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
1.031 3.86 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.026 3.68 Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
1.018 3.72 The Character of Rain: A Novel by Amélie Nothomb
1.010 3.74 The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
1.010 3.53 Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse
1.006 3.65 Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
0.996 3.93 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
0.994 3.16 In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk
0.994 3.55 The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town by Amos Tutuola
0.989 3.45 An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
0.988 3.91 The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.979 3.82 Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust
0.970 3.77 From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
0.969 3.97 How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Pólya
0.963 3.81 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
0.958 3.86 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
0.957 3.80 The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.952 3.82 Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne
0.951 4.04 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
0.950 4.19 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.948 3.85 The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
0.944 3.85 What Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan Chalmers
0.944 4.27 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
0.943 3.88 Smith of Wootton Major by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.941 3.65 Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
0.931 3.81 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
0.929 3.94 Clea by Lawrence Durrell
0.928 3.95 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
0.927 3.75 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
0.927 3.91 Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
0.924 3.79 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
0.923 3.79 No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston
0.920 3.94 Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
0.920 3.74 Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
0.919 4.21 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.916 3.61 Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
0.914 3.71 Return From The Stars by Stanisław Lem
0.912 3.69 The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
0.910 3.25 Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
0.909 3.97 The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.909 3.69 The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.903 3.86 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
0.903 3.93 Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
0.902 4.09 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe
0.901 3.79 Billiards at half-past nine by Heinrich Böll
0.900 4.14 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
0.897 4.00 Ubik by Philip K. Dick
0.896 4.05 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
0.896 4.14 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.894 3.96 Dracula by Bram Stoker
0.892 3.73 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
0.892 3.96 Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
0.892 4.06 The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.889 3.82 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
0.885 3.71 Death and the Penguin by Andreï Kourkov
0.882 3.96 Epileptic by David B.
0.882 4.17 The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi
0.881 3.99 Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
0.881 3.96 Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
0.876 3.98 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
0.876 3.96 Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
0.875 3.70 For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri
0.874 3.70 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
0.874 3.60 Kiki de Montparnasse by Catel Muller
0.872 3.80 Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
0.870 3.67 Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
0.865 3.94 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
0.865 3.63 Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Gogol
0.860 3.68 The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
0.857 3.93 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
0.855 3.81 Leviathan by Paul Auster
0.855 3.85 A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.850 3.93 Klimt by Gilles Néret
0.847 3.84 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
0.845 3.72 The Forest of the Hanged Foxes by Arto Paasilinna
0.844 3.75 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
0.840 3.90 Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
0.838 4.36 Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
0.836 4.19 Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
0.832 4.33 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
0.831 4.17 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.828 4.16 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
0.826 3.92 The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
0.823 3.87 White Jenna by Jane Yolen
0.815 4.14 The Alienist by Machado de Assis
0.813 4.08 The Last of the Sky Pirates by Paul Stewart
0.810 3.96 When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
0.806 4.40 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.803 3.91 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
0.800 4.35 The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
0.799 3.78 The Roman by Mika Waltari
0.797 4.08 Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon Singh
0.795 4.26 We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.790 3.92 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
0.788 3.98 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
0.784 4.20 Palestine by Joe Sacco
0.783 3.78 Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
0.781 3.60 In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
0.780 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.764 3.88 The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell
0.760 4.16 The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
0.751 4.50 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass / The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
0.750 3.96 St Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
0.745 4.10 Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot
0.728 3.87 A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
0.712 3.99 Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir R. Alexander
0.687 4.53 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
0.686 4.31 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
0.629 3.74 The Bridge in the Jungle by B. Traven
0.612 4.04 El viaje vertical by Enrique Vila-Matas
0.610 4.09 Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
0.575 4.61 The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin