Controversial Books for fionaboyd

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
1.247 3.39 A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1.241 3.74 Divine Proportion: Phi In Art, Nature, and Science by Priya Hemenway
1.231 3.50 Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.202 3.78 Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
1.198 3.55 The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
1.159 2.91 Waking Raphael by Leslie Forbes
1.157 3.65 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
1.142 3.46 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.136 3.60 Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
1.135 3.68 Sick Heart River by John Buchan
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.118 3.48 The Bible as History by Werner Keller
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.097 3.63 Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.090 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.083 2.98 A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne
1.076 3.64 The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
1.071 3.91 The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
1.071 3.09 American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri LĂ©vy
1.068 3.65 Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.061 3.50 Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler
1.061 2.87 A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
1.060 3.91 The Times Atlas of World History, Concise edition by Geoffrey Barraclough
1.059 3.27 The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
1.055 3.83 Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
1.050 3.68 DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Greece, Athens & the Mainland by Marc Dubin
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.045 3.99 Atlas of the Second World War by John Keegan
1.041 3.22 The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
1.041 3.73 Masada by Yigael Yadin
1.038 3.69 Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
1.028 3.43 News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance by William Morris
1.024 3.67 Romola by George Eliot
1.021 3.75 Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
1.017 3.75 The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.017 4.07 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.40 The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
1.016 3.32 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
1.015 3.37 Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
1.013 3.81 The Silver Darlings by Neil Miller Gunn
1.011 3.80 Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
1.010 4.17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 3.80 The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
1.007 3.75 The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott
1.007 4.00 Lanark by Alasdair Gray
1.007 3.75 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.007 3.93 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 4.02 Possession by A. S. Byatt
1.003 3.59 Flatterland by Ian Stewart
1.002 4.13 The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
0.999 3.87 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
0.998 3.99 Paradise Lost by John Milton
0.998 3.95 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.997 3.99 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.996 3.86 Don Juan by Lord Byron
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.994 4.02 The Bike Lesson by Stan Berenstain
0.994 4.13 A Life of Picasso, Volume 1: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
0.993 3.75 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
0.993 3.82 Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
0.993 3.63 The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
0.992 3.68 Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
0.991 3.90 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.988 3.89 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.987 3.89 The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
0.986 3.70 Camilla by Fanny Burney
0.984 3.84 Ethan Frome / Summer by Edith Wharton
0.983 3.77 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
0.978 3.79 Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
0.978 3.54 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.977 3.74 Evelina by Frances Burney
0.974 3.62 Melbourne by David Cecil
0.973 3.49 Maigret and the Killer by Georges Simenon
0.973 3.76 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
0.973 4.06 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
0.972 4.04 Precious Bane by Mary Webb
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.971 3.45 Jesus : A Life by A. N. Wilson
0.970 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.968 3.99 Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats
0.968 3.61 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
0.966 3.85 Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
0.966 3.52 Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
0.965 3.77 The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery by Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alam
0.965 3.66 An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton
0.964 3.84 Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
0.964 3.87 In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
0.964 3.85 Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.963 3.28 Stars and Bars by William Boyd
0.961 3.96 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
0.961 3.90 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.960 3.66 Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
0.960 4.11 War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke by Alan Brooke
0.959 3.43 Balzac: A Biography by Graham Robb
0.958 3.70 Winter by Len Deighton
0.958 3.78 Murphy by Samuel Beckett
0.957 3.71 The Bridge by Iain Banks
0.957 3.56 The Bostonians by Henry James
0.956 4.02 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 4.00 The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
0.955 3.45 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
0.954 3.96 Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
0.954 3.98 The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
0.954 3.69 The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.954 3.80 Candide by Voltaire
0.953 3.72 Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.952 4.00 To the End of the Land by David Grossman
0.952 3.93 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
0.951 3.06 A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas C. Reeves
0.951 3.82 A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
0.949 3.76 Silas Marner by George Eliot
0.948 3.71 Spy Hook by Len Deighton
0.948 3.65 The Song of Roland by Turoldus
0.948 4.04 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
0.947 4.12 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
0.943 3.37 Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
0.942 3.34 The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac
0.942 4.07 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
0.942 4.02 The Odyssey by Homer
0.940 3.93 Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction by George Bain
0.940 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.940 3.62 Utz by Bruce Chatwin
0.938 3.87 A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Edith Wharton
0.937 3.80 The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.937 3.78 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Gilgamesh Poet
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.29 Solar by Ian McEwan
0.935 3.73 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
0.935 3.66 The Vatican Cellars by André Gide
0.934 4.07 Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
0.934 3.96 A Little History of the World by Ernst Hans Gombrich
0.933 4.04 Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
0.932 3.68 Two Lives by Vikram Seth
0.932 3.63 The Lady of the Lake: A Poem by Sir Walter Scott
0.932 3.30 History of the First World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
0.931 3.85 The Reef by Edith Wharton
0.930 3.44 The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
0.930 4.07 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.63 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
0.928 3.69 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
0.927 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov (2/2) by Fedor MikhaĂŻlovitch DostoĂŻevski
0.926 3.71 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.924 3.82 Ursule Mirouët by Honoré de Balzac
0.924 3.95 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
0.924 3.64 Philosophy: The Basics by Nigel Warburton
0.923 3.71 Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.920 3.77 King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler
0.920 3.63 An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
0.919 3.39 The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
0.919 3.68 Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
0.919 4.00 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.918 3.76 The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
0.918 4.16 Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
0.915 3.92 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
0.915 3.79 Philosophy Made Simple by Richard H. Popkin
0.915 3.59 The Tombs by Clive Cussler
0.914 4.00 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 3.77 Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
0.914 3.94 A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
0.913 4.12 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
0.913 4.06 Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
0.912 3.69 Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
0.912 3.81 Spy Sinker by Len Deighton
0.912 3.79 In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
0.911 3.60 Two Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard
0.910 3.89 Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
0.910 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.910 3.58 Heartburn by Nora Ephron
0.909 4.39 Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
0.908 3.85 Beyond the Glass by Antonia White
0.908 4.30 The Brothers Karamazov (1/2) by Fedor MikhaĂŻlovitch DostoĂŻevski
0.908 4.01 The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
0.908 3.25 Dead Air by Iain Banks
0.908 3.15 Crudo by Olivia Laing
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.908 3.66 Enigma : The battle for the code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
0.907 3.42 Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
0.906 3.81 Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
0.906 3.59 Orkneyinga Saga: the History of the Earls of Orkney by Anonymous
0.906 3.94 500 Self-Portraits by Julian Bell
0.905 3.58 A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
0.903 3.79 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
0.902 3.63 Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
0.901 3.90 Eisenhower, Volumes 1 & 2: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect 1890-1952 / The President 1952-1969 by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.901 3.96 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
0.901 3.60 The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
0.900 3.48 The House By the Thames: And the People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall
0.899 3.90 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.899 4.15 The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.898 4.04 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
0.898 3.99 The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
0.897 3.51 Archangel by Robert Harris
0.896 3.46 The Judge by Rebecca West
0.896 3.69 A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
0.896 3.70 Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
0.895 3.90 Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
0.895 3.87 Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
0.895 4.02 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
0.893 3.94 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
0.893 3.69 The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
0.892 3.90 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
0.891 4.02 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
0.890 3.99 The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir
0.890 3.63 The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott
0.890 3.81 Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
0.890 3.80 The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming
0.889 3.58 The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
0.888 3.84 Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
0.887 3.80 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
0.887 4.12 The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
0.887 4.02 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
0.887 3.94 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider
0.886 3.90 Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
0.886 3.81 Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.885 3.62 Pompeii by Robert Harris
0.885 4.05 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
0.884 4.09 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.884 3.64 The Sentinel by Lee Child
0.883 3.71 My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
0.883 4.08 Into the silence by Wade Davis
0.883 4.07 Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell
0.883 3.85 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
0.882 4.14 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
0.882 3.68 Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
0.881 4.01 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
0.879 4.13 The Great Terror : A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
0.878 3.95 Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
0.878 3.65 Personal by Lee Child
0.877 3.93 White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
0.877 3.51 The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks
0.877 4.00 The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
0.877 4.09 Ariel by Sylvia Plath
0.876 4.17 Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
0.876 4.09 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
0.876 3.98 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
0.875 3.90 Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
0.875 3.49 Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
0.875 3.81 More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
0.875 3.52 Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
0.874 4.06 GaudĂ­ : 1852-1926 : Antoni GaudĂ­ i Cornet, a life devoted to architecture by Rainer Zerbst
0.873 4.14 The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
0.873 3.89 The Reprieve by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.873 3.78 Espedair Street by Iain Banks
0.872 3.84 The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
0.871 3.67 Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
0.871 4.00 Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
0.870 3.88 Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
0.870 3.82 The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
0.870 3.73 Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
0.869 3.88 Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson
0.869 3.79 The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
0.869 3.78 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
0.869 4.06 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
0.868 3.82 Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
0.867 4.20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.867 3.84 The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.867 3.66 Enigma by Robert Harris
0.867 4.04 Lincoln by Gore Vidal
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.865 3.98 Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
0.864 3.94 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
0.864 3.96 The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
0.864 3.93 Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
0.864 3.83 Mexico Set by Len Deighton
0.864 4.19 Apeirogon by Colum McCann
0.864 3.84 The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson
0.864 3.97 Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
0.864 3.76 The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
0.863 3.89 A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000 B.C. - 1603 A.D by Simon Schama
0.862 3.51 The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
0.862 3.80 An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
0.862 3.42 Caesar by Allan Massie
0.862 3.85 The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.861 3.82 The New Confessions by William Boyd
0.860 3.94 In Siberia by Colin Thubron
0.859 4.03 Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
0.859 3.44 Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant
0.858 3.95 The Debacle by Émile Zola
0.858 3.64 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
0.858 3.86 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
0.857 3.81 The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
0.856 4.24 Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
0.856 4.06 Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
0.856 3.79 Never Go Back by Lee Child
0.855 3.80 Spy Line by Len Deighton
0.855 4.15 Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
0.855 4.28 I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
0.854 3.69 The Blackwater Lightship by Colm TĂłibĂ­n
0.854 3.79 On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
0.853 3.03 A Theft by Saul Bellow
0.853 4.15 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.853 3.91 A Hero of Our Time by Michail JurjeviÄŤ Lermontov
0.852 3.82 The Far Cry by Emma Smith
0.851 3.71 The Penguin Dictionary of Saints by Donald Attwater
0.851 4.06 DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: London by Michael Leapman
0.850 4.13 L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
0.850 3.89 The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
0.850 4.19 A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
0.850 3.84 Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems Selected and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Arthur Cooper
0.849 3.91 They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald
0.849 3.90 Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
0.849 3.77 The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.847 3.76 Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
0.847 3.48 Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
0.847 3.82 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote
0.847 3.39 The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
0.847 4.21 Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara
0.846 3.80 The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer by Georges Ifrah
0.846 3.94 The Jewish war by Flavius Josephus
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.846 4.30 Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
0.846 3.92 Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
0.845 4.10 Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.845 3.84 The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller
0.845 3.97 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.840 4.06 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
0.840 3.75 Complicity by Iain Banks
0.840 4.06 Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
0.839 3.85 London Match by Len Deighton
0.836 4.15 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
0.836 4.27 Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan
0.835 3.94 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.835 3.77 Crossriggs by Mary Findlater
0.835 3.63 A Hero of France by Alan Furst
0.835 4.19 The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
0.834 4.13 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
0.834 3.95 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
0.833 3.67 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.832 3.77 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
0.832 3.93 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.831 3.83 Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
0.831 3.70 Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes
0.830 3.86 Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood by Grayson Perry
0.830 4.14 The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
0.829 3.47 The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
0.827 4.15 Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
0.826 4.04 The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
0.826 3.86 In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
0.826 3.78 Echo Burning by Lee Child
0.826 4.07 The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
0.825 3.67 Night School by Lee Child
0.824 3.90 Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
0.824 3.77 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies
0.824 3.98 Letters Home by Sylvia Plath
0.824 4.09 Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
0.823 3.85 Berlin Game by Len Deighton
0.823 4.15 The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
0.822 3.98 Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
0.821 3.84 The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
0.821 3.96 Revolt in the Desert by T. E. Lawrence
0.820 4.14 A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.820 3.83 Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile, and Crosswords by Sandy Balfour
0.820 4.03 Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
0.820 4.06 The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) by Kevin Lynch
0.818 4.07 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
0.818 3.74 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
0.818 4.27 Banksy: Wall and Piece by Banksy
0.818 3.84 61 Hours by Lee Child
0.817 4.30 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
0.817 3.83 Running Blind by Lee Child
0.816 3.50 The Dead Sea Scrolls by John M. Allegro
0.816 3.83 Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest
0.816 3.84 Persuader by Lee Child
0.815 4.11 Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
0.815 3.93 Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner
0.815 4.21 The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
0.813 3.64 Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
0.813 3.79 Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
0.812 3.74 The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
0.812 3.85 Vermeer: A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey
0.812 4.13 Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde
0.812 3.48 Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst
0.812 4.19 The Collaborator by Gerald Seymour
0.811 4.04 My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
0.811 3.92 Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper by Peter Hill
0.811 3.77 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
0.811 4.23 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.811 3.75 Make Me by Lee Child
0.811 3.82 The Midnight Line by Lee Child
0.810 4.04 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
0.810 4.14 The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
0.810 3.79 A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
0.810 3.83 Tripwire by Lee Child
0.809 3.68 Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.809 4.02 The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter
0.808 3.76 A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil
0.808 3.82 The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
0.807 4.33 Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill
0.807 3.88 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
0.806 3.43 My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
0.806 3.97 Hope by Len Deighton
0.806 3.89 Worth Dying For by Lee Child
0.805 3.53 Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel Drezner
0.805 3.86 Noonday by Pat Barker
0.805 4.14 D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.804 3.89 Without Fail by Lee Child
0.803 3.86 Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
0.803 3.99 The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
0.802 3.86 Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
0.802 3.70 The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
0.801 3.94 The Enemy by Lee Child
0.801 4.14 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
0.801 3.66 The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal
0.801 3.68 The Semi-Attached Couple, and The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden
0.801 4.18 How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
0.801 3.76 The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky
0.800 3.67 Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
0.799 3.70 On Violence by Hannah Arendt
0.798 4.02 Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (ZĂ©lide) by James Boswell
0.798 4.15 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
0.798 4.16 The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
0.797 4.15 Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
0.797 4.18 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
0.797 3.68 The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen E. Ambrose
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 4.25 The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
0.794 3.50 Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J. R. Curtis
0.794 3.73 The Lido by Libby Page
0.794 4.13 Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.793 3.91 The Hard Way by Lee Child
0.793 4.11 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
0.793 4.05 Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Tschechow
0.792 4.15 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
0.792 3.90 The Affair by Lee Child
0.792 4.10 The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
0.791 3.87 Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
0.791 4.12 The Rattle Bag by Seamus Heaney
0.791 3.73 The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
0.791 4.17 Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
0.790 3.68 Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
0.790 3.61 Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton
0.790 4.29 The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
0.789 4.05 The Wrench by Primo Levi
0.789 3.96 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
0.789 3.94 Faith by Len Deighton
0.788 3.78 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey
0.787 4.11 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
0.785 3.80 Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
0.784 4.36 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.783 3.70 Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland
0.782 4.05 One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
0.782 4.48 If This Is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz (If This Is a Man / The Truce (a/k/a The Rewakening) / Moments of Reprieve) by Primo Levi
0.782 4.14 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
0.781 3.70 The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
0.781 3.67 The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
0.780 3.96 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
0.780 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.779 3.82 The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel by Alan Furst
0.779 3.94 The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
0.779 3.83 Charity by Len Deighton
0.778 4.00 Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
0.777 3.76 Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
0.777 4.15 Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
0.776 4.05 The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
0.774 3.94 History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
0.773 4.02 The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
0.773 3.85 A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby
0.773 4.12 The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
0.771 3.95 Diaries by Alan Clark
0.771 4.12 The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling
0.771 3.87 His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
0.771 3.97 One Shot by Lee Child
0.770 3.74 Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
0.770 3.96 Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown
0.770 4.14 Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
0.769 4.30 The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
0.769 4.40 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.768 3.95 The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
0.767 3.89 Sweet Caress by William Boyd
0.767 3.61 The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman
0.765 4.08 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
0.765 4.30 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.765 4.05 The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
0.764 4.33 All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
0.763 4.25 The Hinge of Fate by Winston S. Churchill
0.763 3.98 The Second World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
0.763 3.88 The Drifter by Nick Petrie
0.763 3.97 Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life by Carlo D'Este
0.762 3.86 Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light
0.762 3.70 On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming
0.761 4.06 If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
0.761 4.06 South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
0.759 3.31 It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene