Controversial Books for kuongming

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
1.301 3.24 The Satanic Witch by Anton Szandor LaVey
1.196 3.07 Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
1.167 2.93 Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.15 3.16 Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac
1.142 3.46 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.124 3.43 Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
1.1 3.38 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.08 3.56 Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac
1.073 3.2 The Fallon Blood by Reagan O'Neal
1.072 3.31 No More Prisons by William Upski Wimsatt
1.069 3.86 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.065 3.18 Shadowdale by Richard Awlinson
1.063 3.53 The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
1.057 3.44 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1.055 3.63 The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
1.049 3.59 Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis
1.044 3.55 Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
1.026 3.53 The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.01 3.55 From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.006 3.52 Hip Hop America by Nelson George
1.003 3.31 Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
0.999 3.17 Satori in Paris / Pic by Jack Kerouac
0.997 3.81 Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting by Brett Milano
0.995 3.75 Black Spring by Henry Miller
0.99 3.7 Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
0.983 3.21 Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson (Pocket Penguins 70's) by Hunter S. Thompson
0.98 3.73 The Analects by Confucius
0.979 3.96 Henry V by William Shakespeare
0.979 3.64 A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.975 3.66 Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
0.973 3.86 The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S. Thompson
0.971 3.22 The Magic of Krynn by Margaret Weis
0.971 3.4 Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac
0.968 3.37 The First Third by Neal Cassady
0.968 3.34 Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk by Hunter S. Thompson
0.966 4 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
0.966 4.04 The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories by Jack London
0.965 3.49 Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
0.965 3.61 Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
0.964 3.86 Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.77 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.8 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
0.956 3.81 Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
0.953 3.67 Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.949 4.08 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.948 4.06 King Lear by William Shakespeare
0.945 3.83 Test of the Twins by Margaret Weis
0.945 3.89 Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
0.943 3.93 Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis
0.939 4.01 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.85 The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
0.934 3.47 Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson
0.932 3.74 New Spring by Robert Jordan
0.932 3.96 The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
0.927 4 Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 by Steven P. Shelov
0.923 3.06 Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff
0.919 4.16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.917 4.07 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
0.916 3.73 The Rum Diary: A Novel by Hunter S. Thompson
0.915 3.99 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
0.911 3.9 The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
0.91 3.55 Official Rules of Card Games by Albert H. Morehead
0.91 3.61 Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
0.903 3.45 Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
0.896 3.99 The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
0.892 4 The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
0.89 4.11 Subway Art by Martha Cooper
0.883 3.59 The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
0.882 3.98 The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.879 3.82 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
0.878 3.54 Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's by Hunter S. Thompson
0.873 3.57 Bomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.863 4.06 Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
0.859 3.89 Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
0.852 3.82 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
0.851 4.17 Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
0.838 3.61 Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
0.834 3.76 Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
0.829 4.34 Blue Note: The Album Cover Art by Graham Marsh
0.828 3.28 Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
0.816 4.09 The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
0.811 4.13 Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
0.807 4.23 The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
0.803 4.33 A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan
0.799 3.34 The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
0.798 3.94 The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
0.794 3.65 Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Familiar Minerals, Gems, Ores and Rocks by Herbert S. Zim
0.79 4.08 The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
0.785 3.66 Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
0.78 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.77 3.95 Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
0.77 4.27 Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan
0.765 3.72 Go by John Clellon Holmes
0.739 4.5 Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha Jenkins