Controversial Books for TommyRoyalLibrary

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
1.19 3.81 The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.119 3.72 The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson
1.108 3.64 The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark by Meryl Gordon
1.103 2.83 The Other Tudors : Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards by Philippa Jones
1.07 3.39 Granuaile by Anne Chambers
1.065 3.65 The Age of Aristocracy, 1688-1830 by William B. Willcox
1.063 3.86 Wellington: The Years of the Sword by Elizabeth Longford
1.061 3.5 Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler
1.045 3.42 Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence by A. J. Langguth
1.043 3.36 The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
1.039 4.03 The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder
1.037 3.34 Paul McCartney: The Life by Philip Norman
1.035 3.48 The Black Death: A Personal History by John Hatcher
1.027 3.11 The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
1.026 3.56 Lasher by Anne Rice
1.013 3.4 Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith
1.009 3.75 Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.006 3.42 The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
1.005 4.05 The History of England from the Accession of James II [complete set] by Thomas Babington Macaulay
1.004 3.27 My Story by of York Sarah Ferguson Duchess
1.003 3.56 An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah: A Memoir by Farah Pahlavi
1 4.1 A Lifelong Passion by Sergei Mironenko
0.995 3.43 Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King by Charles Beauclerk
0.994 3.23 Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
0.99 3.31 High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto
0.985 3.54 The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen
0.982 3.53 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.971 3.67 How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
0.971 4 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
0.971 3.64 Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser
0.97 3.77 A Guide to Biltmore Estate by Rachel Carley
0.968 3.68 To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl
0.967 3.76 Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
0.965 4.16 The Night Before Christmas (Christian Birmingham) by Clement C. Moore
0.963 3.72 The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
0.961 3.62 Born Fighting by James Webb
0.96 3.65 The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes by Elizabeth Longford
0.958 3.46 The Royals by Kitty Kelley
0.957 3.68 Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
0.957 3.57 The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
0.946 3.99 Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead
0.945 3.68 Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.94 3.54 The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
0.938 4.02 Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
0.936 3.6 New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden
0.935 3.62 Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
0.934 3.67 Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.926 4.16 The Complete Plays: The Histories by William Shakespeare
0.924 3.96 The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga by John Curtis Perry
0.923 3.7 A History of Wales by John Davies
0.921 3.36 That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
0.92 3.76 King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler
0.919 3.78 Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
0.919 3.63 History of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present by Bonnie S. Anderson
0.919 3.45 Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden
0.917 3.57 Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir
0.916 4.11 Treasures of Britain by Automobile Association
0.916 3.44 Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
0.915 3.07 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by Andrew Morton
0.913 3.91 The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin
0.91 3.56 George III: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
0.909 3.69 The house of Wittgenstein : a family at war by Alexander Waugh
0.908 3.8 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
0.906 3.83 Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
0.905 3.26 Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen
0.903 3.53 A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell
0.9 3.37 The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
0.895 3.99 The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G. J. Meyer
0.894 3.48 Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers
0.889 3.65 Broken Music: A Memoir by Sting
0.889 4.02 View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary
0.888 3.79 Henry II by W. L. Warren
0.888 3.85 The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
0.887 3.56 Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
0.884 4.07 The Renaissance by Will Durant
0.883 3.69 Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat
0.883 3.78 Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
0.882 4.09 The Reformation by Will Durant
0.881 3.96 The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
0.877 3.69 The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey
0.877 3.27 Victoria & Abdul by Shrabani Basu
0.876 3.83 How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy by John Bridges
0.872 3.88 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
0.872 3.02 The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France by Joanna Richardson
0.87 3.91 The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
0.87 3.58 Mistress Anne: The Exceptional Life of Anne Boleyn by Carolly Erickson
0.868 3.52 The Lady Queen : The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
0.867 3.86 The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England by Antonia Fraser
0.867 3.84 Finest Hour by Phil Craig
0.867 3.77 A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by Michael Farquhar
0.867 3.57 The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert
0.866 3.72 The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn
0.865 3.83 Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
0.864 3.81 The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise
0.864 4.09 The Age of Faith by Will Durant
0.862 4 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
0.862 3.78 The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy by Leanda de Lisle
0.86 3.7 Wait for Me! Memoirs by Deborah Devonshire
0.859 4.18 Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
0.857 3.87 Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
0.857 3.22 The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach
0.856 3.93 Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
0.853 3.98 The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant
0.852 3.94 When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett
0.851 3.79 Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
0.851 4.06 The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant
0.85 3.61 The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
0.85 4.02 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
0.849 3.82 Kings & Queens of England and Scotland by Plantagenet Somerset Fry
0.849 3.9 Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
0.849 3.79 Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
0.848 3.74 The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue
0.848 3.62 Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
0.846 4.12 The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George
0.845 3.51 Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon
0.845 3.88 Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
0.845 3.19 William and Kate: A Royal Love Story by Christopher Andersen
0.841 4.13 The Life of Greece by Will Durant
0.837 3.99 The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky
0.837 3.99 Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson
0.835 3.95 Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
0.835 3.86 The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
0.832 3.78 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
0.832 3.87 The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible! by Otto Bettmann
0.832 4.16 Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
0.83 3.53 The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell
0.83 3.78 How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman
0.83 3.91 1066 by David Howarth
0.829 3.69 The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
0.827 4.1 Rosseau and Revolution by Will Durant
0.825 3.89 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
0.824 4.07 Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
0.823 4.14 The Age of Voltaire by Will Durant
0.823 4 Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
0.823 3.67 Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir
0.818 3.78 Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman
0.814 3.98 Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell
0.809 3.88 Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir
0.809 3.75 The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain by Kenneth O. Morgan
0.808 3.94 The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
0.807 3.49 Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon
0.807 3.57 The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
0.805 3.86 Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup
0.803 3.88 Aristotle : On man in the universe by Aristotle
0.802 3.71 The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
0.795 4.18 Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
0.794 3.91 Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
0.794 3.35 A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 by Robert A. Kann
0.792 3.67 Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton
0.789 4.05 The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
0.786 3.91 Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
0.785 3.87 Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
0.782 3.53 Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes
0.782 3.78 In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia by Michael Wood
0.781 3.75 The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
0.775 3.81 The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
0.775 4.37 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
0.772 3.74 The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
0.771 3.49 On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families by Jeremy Paxman
0.77 4.26 The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown by Thomas J. Fleming
0.77 4.12 The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age by Simon Schama
0.769 3.81 Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
0.765 4.01 The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
0.763 3.89 Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery
0.762 3.75 The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
0.758 3.86 Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
0.758 4.1 Austerity Britain: 1945-51 by David Kynaston
0.755 3.77 Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
0.751 4.13 Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
0.75 3.47 Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky
0.749 4.13 The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
0.749 3.97 The Churchills: In Love and War by Mary S. Lovell
0.746 3.98 Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson
0.745 3.91 Mellon: An American Life by David Cannadine
0.743 4.2 The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant
0.742 4.03 The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
0.741 3.68 Cromwell, Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
0.739 3.74 The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch
0.736 4.09 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
0.733 4.03 The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
0.732 4.15 The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
0.724 3.8 The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf
0.724 3.87 American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin
0.715 4.02 Ivan the Terrible by Henri Troyat
0.715 4.33 Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
0.712 3.91 Great Harry: The Extravagant Life of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson
0.707 3.58 Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson
0.707 3.97 Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
0.705 3.36 American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
0.704 3.99 The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman
0.696 3.58 Robert the Bruce: King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott
0.696 3.88 Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick
0.691 3.88 Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor by Carolly Erickson
0.688 3.92 The Roosevelts: An American Saga by Peter Collier
0.687 3.88 Illustrated Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends by Ronan Coghlan
0.683 4.05 To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman
0.682 3.69 The War for All the Oceans From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins
0.681 3.64 A Brief History of British Kings and Queens: British Royal History from Alfred the Great to the Present by Mike Ashley
0.679 4.46 Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
0.678 3.76 The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly
0.677 3.36 The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris
0.676 4.3 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
0.671 4.12 The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones
0.668 3.74 The King's Peace, 1637-1641 by C. V. Wedgwood
0.667 4.14 A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
0.664 3.61 The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France by Maria Perry
0.663 3.87 Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs by Carolly Erickson
0.659 4.1 Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
0.657 3.99 King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
0.647 3.71 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
0.61 4.18 The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Ian Ousby
0.577 3.8 Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
0.569 3.83 The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666 by Neil Hanson
0.542 3.53 Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock
0.53 3.67 Richard III by Charles Derek Ross