Controversial Books for jsimpson10

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
1.186 3.6 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.164 3.96 Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin
1.099 3.69 Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
1.066 3.83 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
1.066 3.68 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.058 3.64 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.036 3.54 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.024 3.41 The Adventuress by Audrey Niffenegger
1.016 3.89 Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
1.012 3.96 I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
1.011 3.44 The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
1.008 3.64 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1.005 3.56 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide by David Hume
1.001 3.87 The Republic by Plato
0.999 3.94 Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Meno / Phaedo by Plato
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.24 Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
0.998 4.15 Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
0.996 3.44 Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
0.99 3.38 The Magical World of Harry Potter: A Treasure of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts by David Colbert
0.99 3.66 St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (Norton Critical Edition) by Thomas Aquinas
0.987 4 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.98 3.59 Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
0.98 3.48 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.973 3.84 Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
0.968 3.6 The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.49 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.957 3.88 White Oleander by Janet Fitch
0.949 3.71 The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
0.948 4.03 On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.942 4.07 Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
0.94 3.53 Do Penguins Have Knees? by David Feldman
0.938 3.95 A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
0.936 4.24 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
0.932 4.02 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
0.928 3.95 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
0.923 4.18 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
0.921 3.96 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
0.921 3.93 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
0.917 3.68 The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
0.916 3.95 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
0.915 4 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
0.91 4.03 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
0.91 3.95 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.909 4.18 Odes to Common Things, Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda
0.906 3.71 The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
0.905 4.16 The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.901 4.05 The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki
0.901 3.02 Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
0.899 3.87 Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
0.893 4.05 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
0.887 4.12 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.884 4.01 Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
0.88 4.25 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
0.879 4.05 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
0.879 3.84 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
0.876 4.08 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
0.876 4.14 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
0.872 3.94 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
0.869 4.32 Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
0.868 3.67 The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.863 4.02 The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
0.863 3.63 Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
0.862 4.12 Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.852 4.18 Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
0.851 4.15 Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
0.849 4.13 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
0.849 3.81 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.837 3.44 Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
0.822 4.13 The Histories by Herodotus
0.821 3.88 4 Plays: Alcestis / Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Medea by Euripides
0.819 3.57 The Whore's Child: Stories by Richard Russo
0.813 4.07 Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.806 3.52 Meadowland: A Novel of the Viking Discovery of America by Thomas Holt
0.806 4.1 Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity
0.8 4.08 On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
0.8 3.84 A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
0.795 4.06 Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.79 3.6 The Best American Essays 2004 by Louis Menand
0.786 4.04 The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
0.785 3.73 The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires
0.784 4.36 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.765 4.29 Politics; Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
0.762 3.6 The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder by Mark Crispin Miller
0.746 4 Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford
0.743 4.29 Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney
0.722 3.89 Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
0.718 4.34 Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches by Winston S. Churchill
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare