Controversial Books for hvega

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
1.263 3.34 The Third Eye by T. Lobsang Rampa
1.224 3.64 Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes
1.188 3.90 I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard
1.144 3.48 A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Ignatius of Loyola
1.136 3.74 Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy by Juan Ramón Jiménez
1.135 3.29 Electra by Jean Giraudoux
1.127 3.99 The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
1.125 4.12 Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Pope Benedict XVI
1.121 3.78 The Mystery of the Cathedrals by Fulcanelli
1.118 3.52 Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
1.116 3.98 Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincaré
1.111 4.03 Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field by Barbara Brennan
1.107 3.44 Colomba by Prosper Mérimée
1.093 3.58 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid by Romain Gary
1.091 3.53 The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1.080 3.60 Fruits of the Earth by André Gide
1.078 3.61 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
1.063 3.53 Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Institoris
1.047 3.46 If It Die by André Gide
1.038 3.61 The Art of Always Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer
1.037 3.83 On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
1.034 4.14 The Second Sex, Volume 1: Facts and Myths by Simone de Beauvoir
1.030 3.48 Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy by Irvin Yalom
1.029 3.51 Belief or Nonbelief? by Umberto Eco
1.018 3.65 Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux
1.017 3.75 The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.016 3.43 The Princess of Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
1.016 3.63 Strait is the Gate by André Gide
1.010 4.04 The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
1.010 4.08 Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil by Liz Greene
1.005 3.88 The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
1.000 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.998 3.31 L'envers et l'endroit by Albert Camus
0.997 4.22 The world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
0.996 4.03 On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.990 3.50 Chaos and Night by Henry de Montherlant
0.987 3.96 The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
0.987 3.88 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
0.985 3.60 Penguin Island by Anatole France
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.983 3.77 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
0.982 3.65 Les faux-monnayeurs by André Gide
0.980 4.18 Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
0.977 3.98 Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man by G. I. Gurdjieff
0.976 3.74 Nana by Émile Zola
0.975 3.92 Orientalism by Edward W. Said
0.974 3.64 The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal
0.972 4.06 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.971 3.10 The Devil’s Pool by George Sand
0.968 3.85 The Kites by Romain Gary
0.968 3.60 The Time of Love by Marcel Pagnol
0.963 3.79 Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
0.960 3.88 Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson
0.959 4.24 Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands by Gertrud Hirschi
0.951 3.51 The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau
0.950 3.54 The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute
0.949 4.11 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.947 4.11 Essays, Part 1/3 by Michel de Montaigne
0.946 4.10 Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
0.943 3.82 The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.941 4.06 History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.937 3.78 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Gilgamesh Poet
0.937 3.89 The Ethics Of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 4.04 Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
0.935 3.66 The Vatican Cellars by André Gide
0.933 4.20 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
0.933 3.81 A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant
0.931 3.87 The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm
0.928 3.92 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
0.927 3.92 The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
0.927 3.91 Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
0.923 3.57 The Immoralist by André Gide
0.922 4.20 The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky
0.921 3.91 The Citadel (author/director unknown) by A. J. Cronin
0.919 4.28 Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes
0.918 3.74 Gigi [L'Enfant Malade; La Dame du Photographe; Flore et Pomone] by Colette
0.918 3.85 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
0.912 3.77 The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
0.910 2.91 The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus by Christopher Knight
0.907 3.87 The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.907 3.97 The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar
0.906 3.77 Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
0.906 4.30 Sepher Yetzirah by Akiba ben Joseph
0.903 4.16 Germinal by Émile Zola
0.902 3.51 The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup
0.898 3.52 La Reine morte by Henry de Montherlant
0.898 3.61 The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
0.896 3.91 Astrology, Karma & Transformation: The Inner Dimensions of the Birth Chart by Stephen Arroyo
0.896 4.24 King Solomon by Romain Gary
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.893 3.65 The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis
0.890 3.84 Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.889 3.68 The Nun by Denis Diderot
0.888 4.24 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
0.885 3.86 Jamilia by Chingiz Aĭtmatov
0.885 3.69 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
0.882 3.68 The Secret History by Procopius
0.878 3.76 The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
0.870 3.80 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
0.868 4.25 Dictionary of Symbols by Jean Chevalier
0.866 4.13 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
0.865 4.07 Poems and Fragments by Sappho
0.864 4.09 The Age of Faith by Will Durant
0.863 4.12 The Life before Us by Romain Gary
0.863 4.06 Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
0.858 3.86 The Time of Secrets by Marcel Pagnol
0.857 4.00 The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 1 (1931-1934) by Anaïs Nin
0.845 4.18 Paroles by Jacques Prévert
0.845 3.62 Topaze by Marcel Pagnol
0.844 3.62 The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
0.841 4.14 The Life of Greece by Will Durant
0.834 4.03 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
0.834 4.08 The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
0.832 4.01 Mythologies by Roland Barthes
0.831 3.99 Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
0.830 3.98 My Father's Glory by Marcel Pagnol
0.825 3.79 Anthologie de la poésie française by Georges Pompidou
0.824 4.16 A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.819 4.21 Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
0.818 4.21 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
0.817 3.95 The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
0.816 3.97 When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
0.816 3.82 Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guérin
0.815 3.68 Arab Historians of the Crusades by Francesco Gabrieli
0.813 4.16 Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.811 3.94 Gödel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel
0.807 3.96 My Mother's Castle by Marcel Pagnol
0.805 3.86 The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy by Mircéa Eliade
0.797 4.18 Psychology and Alchemy by C. G. Jung
0.788 3.87 Lowest of the Low by Günter Wallraff
0.777 3.92 Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Ann Brennan
0.777 4.02 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
0.768 4.13 Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
0.768 4.21 The Act of Creation: A Study of the Conscious and Unconscious in Science and Art by Arthur Koestler
0.746 3.80 The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs
0.745 3.92 Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
0.742 3.81 Caligula / Cross Purpose by Albert Camus
0.697 4.06 Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
0.695 4.51 Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes
0.665 4.26 Puslu Kitalar Atlasi by Ihsan Oktay Anar
0.634 4.20 Venice: Art & Architecture by Marion Kaminski
0.633 4.24 On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism (Mysticism & Kabbalah) by Gershom Scholem