Controversial Books for jonfaith

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
1.402 3.8 Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen
1.396 2.93 The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman
1.318 3.14 Only Revolutions: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.294 3.77 The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen
1.253 2.88 In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
1.24 3.36 Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
1.234 3.77 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
1.231 3.65 Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
1.229 3.43 A Handbook of American Prayer: A Novel by Lucius Shepard
1.227 3.41 The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
1.226 3.24 The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington
1.223 3.17 The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio
1.22 3.9 In Parenthesis by David Jones
1.219 3.36 Let the Dog Drive by David Bowman
1.217 3.46 In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring
1.213 3.56 Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen
1.212 3.38 A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi
1.208 3.21 Umbrella by Will Self
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.203 3.41 The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
1.196 3.76 The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
1.192 3.61 Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
1.192 3.68 Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
1.191 3.37 Too Far Afield by Günter Grass
1.19 3.81 The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
1.177 3.61 Thursbitch by Alan Garner
1.176 3.18 Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
1.171 3.58 Empire by Michael Hardt
1.17 3.43 White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
1.169 3.53 Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
1.167 3.15 Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
1.166 3.9 Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
1.165 3.83 Compass by Mathias Énard
1.164 3.55 The Politics Of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible by Jacques Rancière
1.16 3.74 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.158 3.82 In Ruins by Christopher Woodward
1.157 2.94 The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
1.157 3.68 Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Brontë
1.154 3.29 The Box: Tales from the Darkroom by Günter Grass
1.153 3.59 The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
1.151 2.37 Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
1.145 3.22 Inez by Carlos Fuentes
1.145 3.4 The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
1.142 3.46 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.139 3.78 Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
1.138 3.47 Next by James Hynes
1.138 3.16 Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
1.136 3.15 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.135 3.38 Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
1.134 3.81 Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
1.134 4.09 The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
1.134 4.02 Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
1.131 3.81 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.129 3.26 I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim
1.128 3.96 The Instructions by Adam Levin
1.128 3.48 The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.126 3.5 The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández
1.124 3.46 The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk
1.122 3.53 Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
1.122 3.75 Praise of Folly, and Letter to Maarten van Dorp by Desiderius Erasmus
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.118 3.49 The Dream by Émile Zola
1.117 3.83 The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
1.115 3.1 J by Howard Jacobson
1.115 3.6 The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.114 3.68 A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.112 3.56 The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
1.112 3.91 Kabbalah by Gershon Scholem
1.107 3.86 Jerusalem by Alan Moore
1.107 4.04 As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks, and Other Light Verse by W. H. Auden
1.107 3.31 The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
1.106 2.99 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
1.105 3 Consumed by David Cronenberg
1.104 3.59 Manituana by Wu Ming
1.102 3.65 The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
1.1 4.15 Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.1 4.04 The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin
1.099 3.17 Ourika by Claire de Duras
1.098 3.42 A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
1.097 3.71 Darkmans by Nicola Barker
1.097 3.48 Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
1.096 3.78 Justine by Lawrence Durrell
1.095 3.28 The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass
1.095 3.21 The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.094 3.8 The Public Burning by Robert Coover
1.094 3.78 Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
1.094 3.7 The Walk by Robert Walser
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.092 3.75 The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
1.091 3.19 Prague by Arthur Phillips
1.091 3.92 On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.089 3.72 Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine
1.088 3.49 The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.087 3.58 Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
1.087 3.01 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
1.087 3.29 Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
1.084 3.43 The Vorrh by Brian Catling
1.084 3.37 Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
1.084 4.23 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.082 3.23 England Made Me by Graham Greene
1.081 3.79 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
1.079 3.47 The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Viktor Pelevin
1.079 3.43 Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
1.079 3.42 Submergence by J. M. Ledgard
1.078 3.95 A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
1.078 3.62 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
1.077 4.05 Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
1.077 3.67 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1.076 3.8 Some Thing Black by Jacques Roubaud
1.074 3.82 Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš
1.074 3.58 Rabbit, Run by John Updike
1.073 3.36 The Procedure by Harry Mulisch
1.072 3.89 At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
1.072 3.7 Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
1.071 3.61 Smonk by Tom Franklin
1.07 3.33 Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
1.07 3.78 Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {Male Edition} by Milorad Pavić
1.07 3.42 Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
1.069 3.76 Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1.069 4.08 The Tunnel by William H. Gass
1.069 3.82 The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
1.069 3.48 Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
1.069 3.62 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.068 3.59 Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
1.068 3.65 Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein
1.068 3.13 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.067 3.24 Fury by Salman Rushdie
1.067 3.86 To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
1.067 3.69 London Fields by Martin Amis
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.064 3.89 Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.063 3.17 Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
1.063 3.45 Hotel World by Ali Smith
1.062 3.46 Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
1.062 3.9 Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
1.061 2.86 A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
1.058 3.19 The Red Badge of Courage / The Veteran by Stephen Crane
1.058 3.64 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.058 3.67 London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
1.056 3.45 City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
1.056 3.71 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
1.056 3.98 Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
1.054 3.55 Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer by Wesley Stace
1.054 3.54 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
1.053 3.01 Politics by Adam Thirlwell
1.052 3.82 See Under: Love by David Grossman
1.052 3.57 The Collector of Worlds by Ilija Trojanow
1.052 3.9 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
1.052 3.44 The Rat by Günter Grass
1.051 3.79 The Flounder by Günter Grass
1.05 3.64 The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.049 3 The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
1.049 3.89 Underworld by Don DeLillo
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.049 3.66 Berlin : Imagine a city by Rory MacLean
1.049 3.72 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
1.048 3.81 Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
1.047 3.3 Blue Angel by Francine Prose
1.046 3.87 Danube by Claudio Magris
1.045 3.94 Paterson by William Carlos Williams
1.044 3.68 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
1.044 4.16 Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.042 4.13 Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Cornbelt by Tristan Egolf
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.042 3.4 American Desert by Percival Everett
1.042 3.59 The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
1.042 4.01 Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
1.041 3.6 My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
1.041 3.96 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
1.04 3.13 Spurious by Lars Iyer
1.04 3.32 The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1.04 3.33 The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
1.04 3.9 As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] by William Faulkner
1.04 3.72 The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
1.04 3.7 Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.039 3.65 H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
1.037 3.62 The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
1.037 3.75 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.037 3.77 Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
1.037 3.63 Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into The Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
1.036 3.28 The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.036 4.05 The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
1.035 3.67 The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
1.035 3.98 Q by Wu Ming
1.035 3.68 Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
1.035 3.43 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
1.035 3.36 Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.034 3.68 Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
1.033 3.67 The Lover by Marguerite Duras
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.033 3.38 The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
1.033 3.72 The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
1.033 4.12 The Outsider by Richard Wright
1.032 3.55 Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
1.032 3.96 Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi
1.032 3.52 Chimera by John Barth
1.032 3.98 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
1.031 3.47 Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
1.031 3.86 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.031 3.64 All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom
1.031 3.67 Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník
1.03 3.65 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.72 The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
1.029 3.46 Void Star by Zachary Mason
1.028 4 'A' by Louis Zukofsky
1.028 3.31 Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes
1.026 3.56 Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon
1.026 3.77 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
1.026 3.9 Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.026 3.88 Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
1.025 4.08 Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
1.025 3.7 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1.024 3.97 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
1.024 3.93 No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
1.024 3.63 Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
1.024 3.88 The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
1.023 3.86 Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
1.023 3.52 The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
1.023 3.58 Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
1.023 4.19 Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
1.022 3.85 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
1.022 3.59 You Shall Know Our Velocity! {Vintage} by Dave Eggers
1.021 3.66 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.61 The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
1.021 3.74 Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
1.021 3.47 Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.61 Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
1.02 3.68 The Letter Killers Club by Sigismund Krzyżanowski
1.02 3.84 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
1.02 3.71 Man's Fate by André Malraux
1.02 4.31 The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1.019 3.56 The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
1.019 3.52 Kepler by John Banville
1.019 4.16 Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann
1.018 3.83 Endgame / Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett
1.018 4 Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
1.017 3.57 Snow by Orhan Pamuk
1.017 3.75 The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.017 3.69 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.017 3.21 The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
1.016 3.65 The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
1.016 3.61 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.016 3.69 Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
1.015 3.65 Sister Carrie: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Theodore Dreiser
1.015 3.99 Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rüdiger Safranski
1.015 3.09 Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.014 4.03 A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
1.014 3.58 Baroque Concerto by Alejo Carpentier
1.013 4.09 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.013 3.13 The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac
1.013 3.58 Orfeo by Richard Powers
1.013 4.02 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.012 3.69 Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
1.011 3.04 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
1.011 4.36 The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (Compass) by Hafiz
1.011 3.88 Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész
1.011 3.1 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
1.011 3.68 The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
1.01 3.58 Smoke by Ivan Turgenev
1.01 3.75 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.009 3.66 The Civil Wars by Appian
1.009 3.78 Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
1.009 4.14 Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
1.008 3.81 Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 3.81 The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.008 3.68 In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.56 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
1.007 4 Lanark by Alasdair Gray
1.007 3.68 The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
1.007 3.76 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.006 3.82 The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
1.006 2.8 Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
1.006 3.93 The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot
1.006 3.84 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.006 3.9 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1.006 4.02 Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
1.005 3.52 In Memoriam to Identity by Kathy Acker
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.005 3.86 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.005 3.98 The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
1.004 3.84 War Talk by Arundhati Roy
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 4.01 Possession by A.S. Byatt
1.003 3.93 Language, Counter Memory, Practice by Michel Foucault
1.003 3.54 Baudolino by Umberto Eco
1.003 3.59 Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
1.003 4.1 Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
1.003 3.61 The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
1.002 3.82 Ice by Anna Kavan
1.002 3.82 Gemini by Michel Tournier
1.002 3.88 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
1.001 3.93 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1.001 3.81 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1.001 3.16 Great Expectations: A Novel by Kathy Acker
1.001 3.65 Platform by Michel Houellebecq
1 3.94 Violence by Slavoj Žižek
1 4.07 The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
1 3.31 Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
0.999 3.23 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
0.999 3.65 Aura by Carlos Fuentes
0.999 4.04 Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías
0.999 3.55 Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi
0.998 3.33 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
0.998 3.89 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
0.998 3.84 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
0.998 3.61 How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Žižek
0.997 3.71 The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas
0.997 3.85 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
0.997 3.98 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.997 3.99 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
0.997 3.88 Invisible republic : Bob Dylan's Basement tapes by Greil Marcus
0.997 3.81 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
0.996 3.94 The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera
0.996 3.95 Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Trevor-Roper
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.77 Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
0.996 4.01 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
0.996 3.67 Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
0.995 3.71 Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
0.995 3.86 The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
0.995 3.43 The Information by Martin Amis
0.994 3.52 Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
0.994 4.04 On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.993 3.69 Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody
0.993 3.76 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
0.993 3.63 Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
0.992 3.83 Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.992 3.73 Phaedrus by Plato
0.992 4.04 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
0.991 4.02 Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
0.991 3.49 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
0.991 3.76 Night Film by Marisha Pessl
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.99 4 The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
0.99 3.63 The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
0.99 3.69 Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
0.99 3.89 The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký
0.989 3.48 The Love-Girl and the Innocent by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.6 The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
0.989 3.84 Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
0.989 3.66 Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
0.989 4.16 Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
0.989 3.63 The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
0.989 3.76 The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner
0.989 3.41 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
0.988 3.71 Antigone by Sophocles
0.988 3.92 The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant
0.988 3.79 Dog Years by Günter Grass
0.987 3.89 Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
0.987 3.78 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
0.987 3.16 The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
0.987 3.65 The Unknown Masterpiece / Gambara by Honoré de Balzac
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 3.63 The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
0.986 3.67 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.985 3.19 Dead Babies by Martin Amis
0.985 3.96 House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
0.985 3.57 Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek
0.985 3.54 The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski
0.985 3.99 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
0.984 3.69 High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
0.984 3.66 The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac
0.984 4.29 The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca
0.984 3.54 Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
0.984 3.33 Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd
0.984 3.95 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.983 3.65 Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
0.983 3.6 While the Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marías
0.982 3.42 In Praise of the Stepmother | The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.982 4.11 The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
0.982 3.53 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
0.982 3.77 The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
0.982 3.88 The Passage by Justin Cronin
0.981 4.06 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.981 3.11 Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.981 3.75 Where dead voices gather by Nick Tosches
0.981 3.48 Donnybrook: A Novel by Frank Bill
0.981 3.7 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
0.98 3.59 Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
0.98 3.94 An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
0.98 3.61 In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
0.98 3.58 Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
0.979 3.87 The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
0.979 3.95 Black seas of infinity: The best of H.P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
0.979 3.42 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
0.979 3.8 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
0.979 3.76 The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
0.979 3.81 Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
0.978 4.07 Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
0.978 3.74 Gorgias by Plato
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.978 4.06 Petersburg by Andrei Bely
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.978 3.45 Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
0.977 3.74 The Balcony by Jean Genet
0.977 3.94 Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
0.976 3.4 The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
0.976 3.61 The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.975 3.91 Orientalism by Edward W. Said
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.975 3.88 Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
0.975 3.31 In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
0.974 3.82 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
0.974 3.51 A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
0.973 4.27 Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
0.973 3.34 The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
0.972 3.74 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
0.972 4.02 All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
0.972 3.85 Independence Day by Richard Ford
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.971 3.67 How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
0.971 3.55 Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
0.971 3.72 Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
0.971 3.68 Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb
0.971 3.89 Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts by Milan Kundera
0.97 3.47 Nadja by André Breton
0.97 3.39 The Pornographer by John McGahern
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.97 3.59 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.969 3.52 The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat
0.969 3.8 Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.969 3.57 Running Wild by J. G. Ballard
0.969 3.77 Cane by Jean Toomer
0.969 3.55 Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
0.969 3.72 The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard
0.968 3.99 Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats
0.968 3.61 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
0.968 3.99 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
0.968 3.83 The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
0.967 3.7 The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
0.967 3.86 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
0.967 3.74 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
0.967 3.44 Purple America by Rick Moody
0.967 4.18 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
0.966 3.31 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
0.966 3.88 Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
0.966 4.14 A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles
0.966 3.91 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
0.965 4 Porius by John Cowper Powys
0.965 3.66 The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson
0.965 3.76 The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst
0.965 3.63 Altai by Wu Ming
0.965 3.58 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
0.965 3.61 A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
0.964 3.69 Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
0.964 3.91 Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève
0.964 3.65 Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
0.964 3.52 Where Tigers Are at Home by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
0.964 3.6 After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen
0.963 3.66 India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
0.963 4 Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry
0.963 3.73 Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze
0.963 3.68 Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco
0.963 3.61 Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
0.963 3.64 The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
0.963 3.56 Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
0.963 3.88 Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
0.963 3.98 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.56 God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
0.962 3.8 Medea [in Translation] by Euripides
0.962 4.03 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
0.962 4.17 Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
0.962 3.34 A Thousand Morons by Quim Monzó
0.962 3.25 The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
0.962 3.67 L'ignorance by Milan Kundera
0.962 3.93 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway