Controversial Books for jimMauk

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
1.426 3.78 The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion by Phil Stutz
1.223 3.31 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
1.180 3.77 Ballad by Blexbolex
1.140 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.136 3.35 Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
1.127 3.85 Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas
1.114 3.62 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.106 3.73 Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
1.082 3.80 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.074 3.63 Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman
1.057 3.48 The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
1.050 3.97 Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
1.032 3.33 A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
1.029 4.18 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1.026 3.54 The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
1.013 4.02 Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
1.011 3.78 Feed by M. T. Anderson
1.007 3.81 The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
1.007 4.08 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
0.998 3.43 On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
0.996 3.44 Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
0.993 3.56 A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto
0.990 3.02 The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.52 Eleven by Mark Watson
0.988 3.92 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
0.986 3.97 The Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions) by Thomas Merton
0.985 4.01 A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
0.983 3.29 Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz
0.979 3.25 Praying the Psalms by Thomas Merton
0.979 3.64 A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
0.970 3.67 Gridlinked by Neal Asher
0.970 3.83 S. by Doug Dorst
0.969 3.66 This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
0.964 4.08 Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton
0.963 3.91 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
0.963 4.12 The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
0.962 3.84 Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
0.958 3.29 Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx
0.958 3.88 Blindsight by Peter Watts
0.956 3.82 Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.953 4.18 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
0.952 3.73 The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
0.951 4.06 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
0.948 3.84 A Time to Kill by John Grisham
0.946 4.02 Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan
0.944 4.16 Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) by Walt Whitman
0.944 4.11 A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson
0.942 3.74 Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.940 4.23 Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
0.940 3.97 Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
0.939 3.81 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
0.938 3.74 The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
0.937 4.06 The Dhammapada by Anonymous
0.937 4.00 Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality by Brad Warner
0.936 3.93 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
0.935 3.79 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
0.935 3.98 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
0.934 3.92 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
0.932 3.96 The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
0.931 3.75 The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
0.929 3.59 In the Midst of Death by Lawrence Block
0.927 3.85 A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
0.927 3.73 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
0.924 3.70 Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
0.922 4.15 The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Norman Wirzba
0.920 4.35 The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
0.919 3.87 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
0.918 4.06 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
0.917 3.70 The Confession by John Grisham
0.917 3.93 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
0.917 3.85 Ragtime: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
0.915 4.02 Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon
0.915 4.21 The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
0.910 4.01 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
0.908 3.91 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
0.906 3.79 Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
0.906 4.04 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
0.901 3.46 Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure by Michael Chabon
0.901 3.96 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
0.897 3.96 The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
0.897 4.27 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Jr. Martin
0.896 3.93 The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard by Elmore Leonard
0.896 4.04 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
0.895 4.06 Questions about Angels: Poems by Billy Collins
0.894 3.69 Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
0.892 3.93 The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
0.891 4.03 Silence by Shusaku Endo
0.890 3.83 The Beautiful Ones by Prince
0.890 4.38 Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright
0.890 3.97 The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
0.889 3.64 The Resisters by Gish Jen
0.889 3.98 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
0.888 3.88 Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
0.885 4.05 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
0.884 3.98 A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
0.882 4.09 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
0.881 3.89 Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
0.881 3.95 Burr by Gore Vidal
0.879 3.69 Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
0.879 4.20 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
0.875 3.76 Mystics and Zen Masters by Thomas Merton
0.875 3.70 Echopraxia by Peter Watts
0.875 4.10 The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
0.874 3.68 Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.869 3.94 Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
0.869 3.54 The Wandering Earth {story} by Cixin Liu
0.868 3.92 Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies by J. K. Rowling
0.866 3.80 The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, Book 2) by Eoin Colfer
0.866 4.02 The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
0.865 3.69 Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
0.862 3.79 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
0.861 3.82 Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas
0.860 4.34 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
0.860 4.15 Everyday Zen: Love & Work by Charlotte Joko Beck
0.860 3.65 The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
0.859 3.95 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
0.858 3.84 Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
0.858 3.91 Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
0.858 3.89 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
0.857 4.30 The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley Hauerwas
0.857 3.82 Bossypants by Tina Fey
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
0.854 3.56 Hornet Flight by Ken Follett
0.852 4.36 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
0.851 4.01 Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
0.850 4.19 A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
0.847 3.76 Hansel and Gretel: A Toon Graphic by Neil Gaiman
0.846 4.10 Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
0.845 3.97 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
0.845 4.09 Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry
0.844 3.82 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
0.844 3.61 Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets by Dick Cavett
0.842 3.91 How Music Works by David Byrne
0.842 3.54 American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
0.841 3.82 The Gun by C. J. Chivers
0.840 4.31 Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
0.840 4.38 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
0.840 3.87 The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
0.839 4.35 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin
0.837 4.30 Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
0.836 4.15 Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett
0.835 3.80 Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
0.833 4.08 How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking—for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens
0.832 3.67 A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt
0.832 3.96 A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block
0.831 4.05 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
0.830 4.39 The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr
0.829 4.10 Wolves by Emily Gravett
0.829 4.06 Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
0.828 3.75 Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow
0.828 4.15 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
0.827 4.19 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender
0.826 4.07 The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
0.826 3.91 The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
0.825 3.88 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
0.825 4.33 The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
0.825 4.21 11/22/63 by Stephen King
0.825 3.87 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
0.824 4.02 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
0.823 4.13 The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
0.823 3.97 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
0.822 4.17 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
0.821 4.21 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
0.821 3.59 Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes by Paula Szuchman
0.820 4.20 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.819 3.84 Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
0.815 4.14 True Grit by Charles Portis
0.814 3.64 Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block
0.813 4.30 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
0.811 4.10 Here by Richard McGuire
0.811 4.44 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
0.810 3.68 The Cove by Ron Rash
0.808 3.83 A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block
0.807 3.79 What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
0.807 4.00 The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
0.805 4.08 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.805 4.11 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
0.804 4.08 Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
0.803 4.16 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
0.803 3.91 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
0.802 4.33 Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond
0.801 4.18 How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
0.800 3.87 Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood
0.800 4.09 Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
0.800 4.18 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
0.799 4.04 Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
0.798 3.98 Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke
0.797 3.85 Shiloh by Shelby Foote
0.796 4.31 The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
0.795 3.85 Matter by Iain M. Banks
0.795 3.91 The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
0.789 3.81 Strange Dogs by James S. A. Corey
0.788 4.34 The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert
0.786 3.86 Sourdough by Robin Sloan
0.783 4.10 All Systems Red by Martha Wells
0.783 3.55 Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens
0.780 3.78 Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle
0.779 4.14 The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry
0.779 4.07 Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words by Stanley Hauerwas
0.779 4.24 The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
0.777 3.98 Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey
0.777 3.98 Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
0.777 3.95 The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
0.777 3.99 The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
0.776 4.37 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.775 4.00 The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland by Bill Holm
0.774 3.87 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
0.774 3.99 Redeployment by Phil Klay
0.773 4.32 Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon
0.771 4.04 Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke
0.770 4.18 Exhalation by Ted Chiang
0.769 4.15 War by Sebastian Junger
0.769 4.27 Circe by Madeline Miller
0.768 4.12 Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
0.764 4.32 Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
0.764 3.74 My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt
0.763 3.69 Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block
0.762 3.91 The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown
0.762 4.55 Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
0.762 4.36 The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
0.760 4.34 El Deafo by Cece Bell
0.759 4.24 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
0.758 4.21 The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
0.757 4.42 Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
0.757 4.32 New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
0.751 3.91 Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
0.750 4.12 Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
0.750 3.69 Polaris by Jack McDevitt
0.747 3.70 The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
0.746 4.06 Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey
0.746 4.31 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
0.745 3.79 The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
0.743 3.74 Seeker by Jack McDevitt
0.743 4.42 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
0.742 3.84 The Reversal by Michael Connelly
0.738 4.29 Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
0.737 3.95 The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
0.736 4.25 Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sís
0.733 4.43 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
0.733 4.02 Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey
0.730 4.22 My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown
0.730 4.05 The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
0.728 4.11 Home Economics by Wendell Berry
0.725 4.10 The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke
0.725 4.25 Deacon King Kong by James McBride
0.725 4.22 The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
0.724 4.43 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
0.722 4.28 H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
0.721 4.00 Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
0.716 4.25 Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey
0.710 3.82 Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson
0.709 4.14 How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
0.704 4.30 The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa by Robert Hass
0.700 4.04 Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
0.700 4.48 The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
0.696 4.27 The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson
0.695 4.31 A Timbered Choir by Wendell Berry
0.694 3.96 Displacement by Lucy Knisley
0.692 4.17 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
0.691 4.15 Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
0.688 4.00 Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
0.687 3.83 Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
0.684 3.69 The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner
0.680 4.19 What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
0.676 4.34 The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant
0.675 4.36 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
0.674 4.24 Here I Am (NA) by Patricia Hee Kim
0.673 4.15 Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey
0.664 4.47 D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
0.660 3.99 Gravity by Jason Chin
0.653 3.75 Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid
0.643 4.28 Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
0.620 4.16 Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
0.589 3.74 Improvement by Joan Silber