Controversial Books for joenicholls

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
1.242 3.06 Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates
1.221 3.72 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
1.186 3.6 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.18 3.37 A Certain Chemistry by Mil Millington
1.147 3.79 Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman
1.145 4.1 A Course in Miracles by Foundation for Inner Peace
1.139 3.91 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
1.135 3.35 Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer
1.113 3.85 Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) by Derek Rowntree
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.111 3.71 Experience and Education by John Dewey
1.108 3.69 Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
1.082 3.63 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1.081 3.53 Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
1.079 3.85 The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
1.078 3.92 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
1.074 3.67 Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel by Mil Millington
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.058 3.61 The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley
1.056 3.85 The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
1.053 3.58 Intimate Behaviour by Desmond Morris
1.049 3.68 Puckoon by Spike Milligan
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.049 3.57 I Ching, Book of Changes by James Legge
1.04 3.72 The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
1.032 4.02 slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
1.021 3.8 The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1.015 4.06 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
0.996 3.93 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
0.995 3.83 The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
0.994 3.49 The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
0.99 3.78 The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 3.7 Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received by Dannion Brinkley
0.984 3.81 The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson
0.981 3.33 Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.98 4.18 Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
0.969 4.06 Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder
0.961 3.77 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
0.96 3.66 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.943 3.6 Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression by Gwyneth Lewis
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.938 3.66 The Whistler by John Grisham
0.937 3.96 Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
0.936 3.84 Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
0.928 3.5 Understanding Organizations (Penguin Business Library) by Charles B. Handy
0.928 3.41 The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
0.923 3.85 Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray
0.919 4.08 Gray's Anatomy: The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.918 3.03 Second Life: The Official Guide by Michael Rymaszewski
0.917 3.75 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
0.917 4.11 American Gods: Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
0.914 3.41 The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
0.914 3.5 Providence by Anita Brookner
0.914 3.62 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
0.912 4.03 Papillon by Henri Charrière
0.912 3.77 The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
0.91 4.01 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
0.91 4.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
0.907 3.72 The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
0.906 3.96 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
0.905 3.59 Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillion by Henri Charrière
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.899 3.84 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
0.897 3.38 Azazel by Isaac Asimov
0.897 3.83 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
0.897 3.94 Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
0.896 3.94 Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
0.896 3.72 Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
0.894 3.47 The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
0.891 4.09 Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design by Terry Winograd
0.89 3.9 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
0.89 3.98 The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
0.889 3.98 The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas Hofstadter
0.887 3.55 Teach Your Child How to Think by Edward de Bono
0.885 4 Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler
0.885 3.13 More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
0.879 3.36 The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
0.878 4.05 Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
0.875 4.21 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.873 4.04 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
0.872 3.92 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
0.871 3.95 Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.867 4.2 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.864 3.81 The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
0.863 3.72 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
0.855 3.76 The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki
0.851 2.88 Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.844 2.99 Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope
0.842 4.26 Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
0.841 3.67 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
0.839 4.12 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
0.839 3.96 Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
0.838 3.94 D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics) by D. H. Lawrence
0.831 3.62 Daughter of Regals and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson
0.831 4.18 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.83 4.17 Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
0.829 3.99 Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
0.828 3.94 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
0.827 3.99 Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
0.827 3.96 The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
0.825 3.7 Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
0.823 4.12 The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
0.82 4.2 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.812 3.76 The Essential Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
0.81 3.84 The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
0.808 3.76 The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
0.807 3.56 Twisting the Rope by R. A. MacAvoy
0.804 4.32 The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
0.798 4.1 Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich
0.792 3.79 The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
0.791 4.09 Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
0.781 3.4 We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production by Charles Leadbeater
0.78 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.78 3.96 User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn
0.758 3.93 Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
0.751 3.95 Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
0.742 4.31 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
0.736 3.76 How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process by John Dewey
0.733 4.29 The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Władysław Szpilman
0.732 4.12 This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
0.709 4.14 How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
0.702 3.9 The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
0.693 3.9 Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin
0.59 4.44 Collins dictionary of the English language by Patrick Hanks
0.452 4.61 The Annotated Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen