Controversial Books for isabelle1970

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
1.196 3.53 Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers by David Perlmutter
1.128 3.4 The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom by Paulo Coelho
1.123 4.03 Practical English Usage by Michael Swan
1.106 3.86 Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
1.1 3.66 Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo
1.09 3.33 The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
1.087 3.76 Grammar Is a Sweet, Gentle Song by Erik Orsenna
1.079 3.61 Salt on Our Skin by Benoîte Groult
1.029 4.18 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1.018 3.62 Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux
1.018 3.72 The Character of Rain: A Novel by Amélie Nothomb
1.01 4.17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.01 3.81 How Languages Are Learned by Patsy M. Lightbown
1.003 3.47 Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
0.999 3.9 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
0.997 4.1 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
0.988 4.19 Dictionnaire de douze mille verbes (Bescherelle : L'Art de conjuguer) by Louis Nicolas Bescherelle
0.986 3.28 Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
0.981 3.67 The Sebastopol Sketches by León Tolstói
0.974 3.9 The Vagabond by Colette
0.973 3.59 The School for Wives by Molière
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.968 3.51 My Wish List by Grégoire Delacourt
0.962 3.7 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
0.96 3.53 The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
0.952 3.74 Tartuffe by Molière
0.945 3.63 Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis
0.937 3.74 Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac
0.936 3.7 The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal
0.934 3.9 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
0.934 3.95 A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
0.924 4.04 Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
0.919 3.64 The Horla [short story] by Guy de Maupassant
0.901 4.02 Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
0.897 4.03 Room by Emma Donoghue
0.896 3.5 Once Upon the River Love by Andreï Makine
0.895 3.78 Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier
0.895 4 The Beast Within by Émile Zola
0.894 3.98 The Wealthy Barber by David Barr Chilton
0.891 3.78 What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
0.884 3.8 Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
0.879 3.4 The Dark Child by Camara Laye
0.866 3.75 The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
0.86 3.5 The Truth About Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
0.86 3.35 Almost Vegetarian by Diana Shaw
0.858 4.16 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
0.858 4.02 The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy by David Servan-Schreiber
0.854 4.14 The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
0.852 3 Whore by Nelly Arcan
0.842 3.92 Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting by John Gottman
0.84 4.09 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
0.831 3.71 Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley
0.826 3.89 Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann
0.825 3.83 Ru by Kim Thúy
0.823 3.99 The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
0.82 3.6 Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal
0.811 4.03 Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.809 4.24 Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
0.779 3.82 The Story of French by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
0.771 3.98 The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
0.745 3.63 The Nicolas Le Floch Affair by Jean-Francois Parot
0.728 3.98 Street of Riches by Gabrielle Roy
0.722 4.03 The Return by Dany Laferrière
0.707 4.04 English Grammar for Students of French by Jacqueline Morton
0.659 3.66 Les Chevaliers du Subjonctif by Erik Orsenna
0.624 3.58 The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow
0.474 4.77 Toda Mafalda by Quino