Controversial Books for CM2NET

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
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.184 2.98 Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
1.172 3.64 Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
1.167 3.85 Contemporary Political Philosophy by Will Kymlicka
1.167 3.92 A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.117 3.21 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.104 3.85 Political Liberalism by John Rawls
1.094 3.4 The Law of Peoples - with "the Idea of Public" by John Rawls
1.093 3.67 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
1.084 3.52 Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.07 3.3 Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe
1.067 3.24 Fury by Salman Rushdie
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.055 3.91 On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.051 3.98 The Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.045 3.8 The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
1.04 3.32 The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1.037 3.58 The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
1.035 3.13 Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II by Bill Gunston
1.032 3.86 Fragments by Heraclitus
1.031 3.98 Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.024 3.39 Room at the Top by John Braine
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.69 Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
1.012 3.62 Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
1.005 3.85 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.001 3.87 The Republic by Plato
1 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
1 3.55 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.999 3.94 Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Meno / Phaedo by Plato
0.998 3.95 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.94 A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
0.997 3.67 Politics by Aristotle
0.996 3.77 Selected Works by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.994 3.57 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0.994 3.95 The Boomer Bible by R. F. Laird
0.993 3.44 Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
0.992 3.49 Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.992 3.73 Phaedrus by Plato
0.991 3.72 The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
0.989 4.11 On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman
0.987 3.46 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
0.986 3.48 Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.982 3.62 The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
0.981 3.1 Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
0.978 3.58 On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0.978 3.75 Gorgias by Plato
0.977 3.87 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
0.976 3.98 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
0.968 3.9 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.967 3.83 Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
0.966 3.55 Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Barnes
0.964 3.13 Socrates : A Very Short Introduction by C. C. W. Taylor
0.964 3.87 A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
0.963 3.68 Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco
0.962 3.84 Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
0.961 3.77 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.96 3.49 Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
0.96 3.45 Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
0.959 3.76 The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
0.955 3.74 Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's & Party Guide by Leo Cotton
0.954 3.87 The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.952 3.92 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
0.95 3.62 On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
0.948 3.66 The Song of Roland by Turoldus
0.946 3.67 Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life without God by A. C. Grayling
0.942 3.88 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
0.94 3.97 Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.936 4.27 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.935 3.98 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
0.935 3.99 Enchiridion by Epictetus
0.932 4.03 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.932 2.96 The Winds of Limbo by Michael Moorcock
0.928 3.89 What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.923 3.59 Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
0.923 3.57 Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.85 Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
0.92 3.75 Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch by George Eliot
0.919 3.68 Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
0.919 3.98 De Officiis [Latin text] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.918 3.83 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.918 3.86 Dear Life by Alice Munro
0.917 3.84 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
0.915 3.87 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
0.914 4 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 4.12 The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco
0.913 3.35 The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
0.912 4.04 Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
0.911 3.52 Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosopy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
0.911 3.9 Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
0.911 3.68 Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.91 3.94 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.907 3.79 The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
0.905 3.62 The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood
0.905 4.1 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.903 4.09 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
0.903 4.26 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
0.902 4.06 The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin
0.9 4.08 Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls
0.898 3.62 Tusculan Disputations by Cicero
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.897 3.83 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
0.897 3.91 The Door by Margaret Atwood
0.895 3.39 Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
0.892 3.62 Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
0.891 3.86 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
0.888 4.05 Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
0.886 3.59 Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
0.882 3.97 The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
0.882 4.09 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman
0.882 3.93 Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Jr. Dana
0.88 3.99 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.877 4.1 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
0.875 4.21 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.873 4.06 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.868 4.03 Runaway by Alice Munro
0.865 4.41 Plato: Complete Works by Plato
0.865 3.69 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
0.864 4.26 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
0.862 4.18 The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
0.861 3.71 The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
0.856 4.11 The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
0.856 3.46 The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations by Robert Nozick
0.855 3.92 The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.852 3.82 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
0.85 3.93 Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
0.846 3.98 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
0.845 3.68 The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
0.842 3.99 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
0.839 4.09 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
0.837 4.03 The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
0.836 4.17 The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
0.83 3.66 The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
0.827 3.02 Hume: A Very Short Introduction by A. J. Ayer
0.822 3.8 Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore
0.817 3.94 MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
0.812 4.1 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
0.805 4.09 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.803 3.97 Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
0.803 4.01 Northanger Abbey / Lady Susan / Sanditon / The Watsons by Jane Austen
0.802 3.85 Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality by Michael Walzer
0.8 3.54 The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
0.787 4.15 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
0.778 3.6 Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
0.767 4.08 War by Gwynne Dyer
0.764 3.61 The Wealthy Barber Returns : Dramatically Older and Marginally Wiser, David Chilton Offers His Unique Perspectives on the World of Money by David Barr Chilton
0.754 4.01 The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
0.752 4.3 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
0.741 4.12 Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
0.732 4.38 Prince Valiant, Volume 1: 1937-1938 by Hal Foster
0.729 3.73 Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle
0.728 3.97 D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
0.727 4.23 The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
0.717 4.09 The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy by Robert Audi
0.714 4.33 The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
0.713 4.05 Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
0.712 4.32 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
0.712 3.53 Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
0.693 4.5 Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay
0.692 4.01 Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
0.691 4.18 Letters to Lucilius [in translation] by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
0.68 4.14 The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol
0.673 3.65 The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
0.602 4.45 Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman