Controversial Books for brettcarnell

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
1.147 3.75 Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.05 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.121 3.93 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.114 3.62 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1.077 3.68 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1.067 3.69 London Fields by Martin Amis
1.051 3.61 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
1.049 3.73 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
1.045 3.94 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.041 3.73 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 - 1750 by Marcus Rediker
1.037 3.43 Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times by James Finn Garner
1.036 3.51 King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
1.034 3.86 Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Ninth Edition by Websters Merriam
1.033 3.87 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1.033 3.67 The Lover by Marguerite Duras
1.030 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.024 3.51 Moo by Jane Smiley
1.015 3.87 An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
1.014 3.53 Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
1.014 3.19 Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.009 3.71 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
1.006 3.90 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1.006 3.60 The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.004 3.34 The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
1.003 4.02 Possession by A. S. Byatt
1.000 3.78 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
0.997 3.66 The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
0.995 3.45 Duffy by Julian Barnes
0.992 3.82 Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
0.992 3.64 Mortals by Norman Rush
0.991 3.90 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.990 3.43 Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin
0.990 3.51 The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.990 3.87 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
0.989 3.77 The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
0.986 3.61 The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.983 3.56 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
0.982 3.41 Favorite Father Brown stories by G. K. Chesterton
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.979 3.71 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.977 3.47 I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
0.977 3.87 The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.974 3.81 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
0.974 3.38 Ciao, America! by Beppe Severgnini
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
0.973 3.73 Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.969 3.87 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
0.968 3.70 Maigret on the Defensive by Georges Simenon
0.964 3.56 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
0.964 3.86 Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.54 The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch
0.962 3.56 Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by David Remnick
0.961 3.68 Saturday by Ian McEwan
0.961 3.85 Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.961 3.76 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
0.960 3.40 Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
0.960 4.16 Independent People by Halldór Laxness
0.959 3.68 Postcards by Annie Proulx
0.959 3.74 No Night is Too Long by Barbara Vine
0.958 3.67 Hold Tight by Christopher Bram
0.956 3.85 A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
0.955 3.73 Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.953 3.76 A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
0.952 3.73 The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
0.952 3.76 An Italian Education by Tim Parks
0.951 3.93 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
0.948 3.63 The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
0.945 3.89 City Boy by Herman Wouk
0.942 3.99 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.941 4.13 Selected Poems by W. H. Auden
0.941 3.75 Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.938 3.96 The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
0.935 3.44 The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert
0.933 4.08 The Once and Future King by T. H. White
0.933 3.79 How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine by John Jeavons
0.933 3.92 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
0.931 3.91 Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
0.930 4.07 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.22 Summer People by Marge Piercy
0.928 3.69 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
0.927 3.83 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
0.927 4.00 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.927 3.84 Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
0.926 3.58 A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
0.926 3.74 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
0.926 3.69 The Ice House by Minette Walters
0.925 3.92 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.923 3.66 The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
0.923 3.57 The Immoralist by André Gide
0.921 3.96 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
0.920 4.10 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.920 3.76 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
0.919 4.15 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.919 3.84 Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories by Ruth Rendell
0.918 4.04 The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Sławomir Rawicz
0.917 4.14 The Good Master by Kate Seredy
0.916 3.45 Saint Augustine by Garry Wills
0.916 3.92 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
0.915 4.15 The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
0.914 3.60 The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
0.913 3.34 The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
0.912 3.34 The Food Taster by Peter Elbling
0.912 4.20 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
0.911 3.54 The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
0.911 4.04 The Art Book by Phaidon Press
0.910 3.87 The Complete Fables by Aesop
0.910 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.909 3.66 The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
0.908 3.75 A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
0.907 4.00 The Life to Come: And Other Stories by E. M. Forster
0.907 3.75 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
0.906 4.03 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
0.906 4.16 Mountain Interval by Robert Frost
0.905 3.77 The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.901 3.83 A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
0.901 3.61 Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
0.901 4.17 Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
0.899 3.88 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
0.899 3.99 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
0.899 3.92 The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
0.898 4.07 The Anarchy : The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
0.896 3.81 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
0.893 3.94 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
0.893 3.92 Living With Books by Alan Powers
0.892 3.77 Restoration by Rose Tremain
0.891 4.13 A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
0.890 3.78 Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
0.888 4.14 Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
0.887 3.59 Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
0.886 3.33 Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.881 4.01 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
0.881 4.23 501 French Verbs by Christopher Kendris
0.880 3.87 A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
0.880 3.74 The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
0.880 3.61 The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel by Pierre Boulle
0.879 4.05 One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell
0.878 4.03 Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
0.878 3.74 Leonardo: The Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly
0.877 3.46 Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard
0.877 3.61 Lonely Planet : Paris by Steve Fallon
0.876 3.98 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
0.875 4.21 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.875 3.83 The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
0.875 4.00 The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
0.874 3.84 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
0.872 3.69 The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor—and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car by Tim Harford
0.871 3.62 Cat o'Nine Tales: And Other Stories by Jeffrey Archer
0.870 4.40 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.870 4.03 Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home by Ina Garten
0.869 3.93 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
0.868 4.23 The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
0.868 3.88 Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman
0.868 3.80 Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles by Francine Prose
0.865 3.75 The Old Silent by Martha Grimes
0.864 3.83 Mexico Set by Len Deighton
0.861 4.11 This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow
0.861 3.46 The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
0.860 3.78 Cheating at Canasta: Stories by William Trevor
0.860 4.35 Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
0.860 3.77 Gallowglass by Barbara Vine
0.860 4.26 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
0.859 4.15 The Greek Myths: Volume 2 by Robert Graves
0.859 3.67 Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher
0.858 4.16 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
0.858 3.74 Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
0.857 3.38 Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell
0.857 3.72 Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
0.857 4.30 The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
0.857 4.24 The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
0.855 3.99 Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier by Wallace Stegner
0.854 3.75 How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge
0.854 3.65 Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
0.854 4.22 Peterson Field Guides to Eastern Birds, 4th Edition by Roger Tory Peterson
0.853 4.03 Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
0.852 3.70 Napoleon by Paul Johnson
0.852 3.71 How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
0.849 3.90 Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
0.848 3.94 Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
0.848 3.79 A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
0.847 3.94 The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
0.847 3.90 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.846 3.94 The Collector by John Fowles
0.846 3.92 More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.845 3.74 The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories by Patricia Craig
0.845 4.27 American Primitive by Mary Oliver
0.845 3.46 Gossip by Christopher Bram
0.844 4.45 Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook by Peter Blood
0.842 4.10 Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates
0.842 4.20 My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.841 3.68 Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker
0.841 3.79 Sure of You by Armistead Maupin
0.840 3.88 Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
0.839 3.85 London Match by Len Deighton
0.839 4.03 Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
0.838 3.93 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
0.837 3.81 Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
0.837 3.86 Small World by David Lodge
0.837 3.83 Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
0.836 4.08 What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
0.835 3.56 And Thereby Hangs a Tale: Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer
0.834 4.03 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
0.833 3.97 A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
0.831 4.17 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.829 4.01 Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
0.828 4.16 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
0.827 4.00 The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 15: Fanfare for the Area Man by Onion Editors
0.827 3.96 The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
0.826 4.35 Joy of Cooking [1975] by Irma S. Rombauer
0.825 4.05 Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Chandler S. Robbins
0.824 4.12 Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.823 3.85 Berlin Game by Len Deighton
0.821 4.00 Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
0.821 3.91 Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.821 3.86 Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
0.821 4.16 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by National Audubon Society
0.820 4.20 Élet és halál Sanghajban by Nien Cheng
0.820 4.20 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.817 4.19 The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
0.815 3.95 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
0.812 4.21 The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
0.810 4.16 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
0.810 3.57 An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill
0.810 3.69 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
0.809 3.88 Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir
0.808 3.95 The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
0.806 4.08 World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
0.805 4.21 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
0.803 3.77 The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan DeJean
0.803 3.59 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
0.801 3.94 The Manticore by Robertson Davies
0.801 4.25 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
0.800 4.16 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
0.800 3.93 At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
0.799 3.52 Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 by Thomas J. Schlereth
0.796 3.92 The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: 1872-1914 by Bertrand Russell
0.794 3.66 Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
0.794 3.67 Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
0.792 3.67 Rothko by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
0.786 4.05 The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy
0.785 4.36 The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
0.785 4.07 Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
0.784 4.43 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
0.782 3.65 The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
0.782 3.91 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
0.778 4.27 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.771 4.33 John Adams by David McCullough
0.770 4.06 The Small Bachelor by P. G. Wodehouse
0.767 4.05 Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
0.765 4.02 The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
0.765 4.31 Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America by Jim P. Brock
0.765 4.02 Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
0.762 4.10 Claudius the God by Robert Graves
0.754 3.62 Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
0.750 4.31 The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem by Mary Oliver
0.745 3.85 Classical Greece by Maurice Bowra
0.744 3.65 New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual by Editors of Reader's Digest
0.740 4.32 The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child
0.738 4.05 The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces by Diane Seed
0.732 4.31 Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
0.731 3.50 Times without number by John Brunner
0.728 4.02 The Minimalist Cooks at Home: Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time by Mark Bittman
0.728 3.98 The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine
0.727 3.90 Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David A. Price
0.721 4.08 The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse
0.719 4.56 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
0.718 4.38 This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
0.714 3.86 Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
0.708 3.47 Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
0.700 4.37 The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch
0.700 4.17 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
0.691 4.01 Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work by Mel Bartholomew
0.690 3.63 The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin by Christopher McGowan
0.687 3.77 The Switch by Elmore Leonard
0.670 4.20 Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976 by E. B. White
0.645 3.81 Selected Short Stories by H. G. Wells
0.638 4.26 Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins
0.497 4.08 Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire by Simon Baker