Controversial Books for lrcutter

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
1.443 1.89 Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
1.273 3.46 Women of Wonder by Pamela Sargent
1.218 3.58 The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer
1.181 3.33 Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Peter Egoscue
1.171 3.82 Heal Your Body by Louise Hay
1.152 3.43 Writers Dreaming by Naomi Epel
1.134 3.46 Bridge For Dummies by Eddie Kantar
1.128 3.12 The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana
1.096 3.4 The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference : an Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic by Writer's Digest Books
1.096 3.02 Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath by Mary Anne Mohanraj
1.081 3.79 Popol Vuh by Quiché Maya
1.068 3.89 Stories by Doris Lessing
1.065 3.9 Fallen Host by Lyda Morehouse
1.049 3.56 The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
1.042 3.84 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1.04 3.33 The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite
1.038 3.83 The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein
1.031 3.99 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
1.031 3.55 The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
1.026 3.25 The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
1.024 3.68 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1.022 3.86 Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Géza Gárdonyi
1.021 4.09 Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
1.017 3.65 The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven
1.016 3.58 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
1.012 3.68 God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
1.012 3.78 Dreaming the dark : Magic, sex & politics by Starhawk
1.01 3.68 The Maya by Michael D. Coe
1.009 2.99 A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
1.008 3.69 In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
1.006 3.9 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1.006 4.01 The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version (RSV) by Thomas Nelson & Sons
1.005 3.8 The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
1 3.94 The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
0.995 3.5 Little Birds by Anaïs Nin
0.989 3.75 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
0.984 3.76 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
0.982 3.78 Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
0.981 3.73 Encyclopedia of Gods by Michael Jordan
0.978 3.92 The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki
0.976 3.68 In the Serpent's Coils by Tiffany Trent
0.975 3.55 Irish Folktales by Henry Glassie
0.974 3.8 Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe by Louise Collis
0.972 3.88 The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum
0.971 3.57 Plot by Ansen Dibell
0.97 3.77 Eyrbyggja Saga by Anonymous
0.969 2.97 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.968 3.36 The Medieval Reader: First-hand Accounts of the Middle Ages Including Letters, Essays, State and Church Documents, Poetry and Ballads by Norman Cantor
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.967 3.7 To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey
0.966 4.02 Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
0.966 3.62 Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
0.965 3.61 Children of Amarid by David B. Coe
0.964 3.51 The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak
0.964 3.97 The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
0.961 3.62 Iron Council by China Miéville
0.957 3.88 Nobody Nowhere: the Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic by Donna Williams
0.957 3.18 The Carnal Prayer Mat by Yu Li
0.957 3.7 The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics) by Michitsuna no Haha
0.954 4.06 If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
0.953 3.82 A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson
0.952 3.76 Hot Sleep by Orson Scott Card
0.952 3.94 Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
0.949 2.83 The New Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
0.949 3.72 The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships by Harriet Lerner
0.949 4.14 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
0.948 3.56 The World of Myth: An Anthology by David Adams Leeming
0.947 3.63 Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going by Jan Harold Brunvand
0.946 3.55 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
0.946 3.54 The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James
0.942 4.05 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
0.94 3.64 Chernevog by C. J. Cherryh
0.939 3.86 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.938 3.96 The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip
0.937 3.58 Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
0.936 3.64 Iron Chef: The Official Book by Kaoru Hoketsu
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.933 3.83 Hawkmistress! by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.932 3.85 Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
0.93 3.74 Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming
0.928 3.42 The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
0.927 3.82 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
0.926 3.41 Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven
0.926 3.73 Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness by John Briggs
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.923 3.95 New Testament Greek for Beginners by J. Gresham Machen
0.922 3.7 Growing Wings by Laurel Winter
0.921 4.02 Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
0.921 4.11 The Source by James A. Michener
0.92 4 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
0.919 4.24 Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou
0.919 3.78 The Mount: A Novel by Carol Emshwiller
0.919 3.98 The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
0.917 3.79 The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
0.916 4.02 The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
0.915 4.03 Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip
0.914 3.81 The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
0.912 3.49 The Mongols by David Morgan
0.912 3.92 The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner
0.912 4.08 Lust for Life by Irving Stone
0.911 3.92 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.906 3.08 The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
0.906 4.04 The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events by Bernard Grun
0.906 3.86 Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
0.903 3.76 A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele
0.903 4.19 A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
0.903 3.68 Freedom's Gate by Naomi Kritzer
0.9 4.05 Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.9 3.87 Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde
0.899 3.94 Mythology by Edith Hamilton
0.899 3.76 The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
0.898 4.04 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
0.898 3.47 The Begum's Millions by Jules Verne
0.897 4.05 The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.895 3.94 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
0.895 4.14 Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
0.893 4.2 The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
0.893 3.38 Clouds End by Sean Stewart
0.892 3.71 How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
0.891 3.68 Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey
0.89 3.79 Shadow Man by Melissa Scott
0.888 3.91 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.882 3.85 Bone Dance by Emma Bull
0.882 4.21 Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenburg
0.882 4.12 The Poetic Edda by Anonymous
0.881 4 The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.88 3.75 The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Anonymous
0.878 3.41 The Meteor Hunt: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) by Jules Verne
0.878 3.78 Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik
0.876 3.82 Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
0.874 3.72 Fool's Run by Patricia A. McKillip
0.873 4.14 On Writing Well by William Zinsser
0.873 4.04 The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
0.873 3.09 Body Language by Julius Fast
0.868 3.8 The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson
0.867 3.97 The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel by Diana Wynne Jones
0.867 3.94 A History of Warfare by John Keegan
0.866 4.06 Anno's U.S.A. by Mitsumasa Anno
0.866 3.91 Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art by Eric Maisel
0.865 4.06 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
0.865 4.14 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
0.863 3.87 Little Sister by Kara Dalkey
0.863 3.85 Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
0.861 3.71 A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
0.861 4.1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
0.859 4.13 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.859 4.15 The Greek Myths: Volume 2 by Robert Graves
0.858 3.83 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
0.858 4.01 The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
0.855 3.77 The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
0.855 4.3 The Dain Curse / The Thin Man / The Glass Key / Red Harvest / The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
0.855 3.63 The Question of Hu by Jonathan D. Spence
0.854 4.17 Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
0.853 4.3 The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Sally Fitzgerald
0.851 3.85 The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and Other Timeless Delicacies by Mollie Katzen
0.851 3.77 Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
0.85 4.09 A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life by Judy Reeves
0.847 4.49 The Greek New Testament by Eberhard Nestle
0.847 3.69 The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner
0.845 4.11 Transformation by Carol Berg
0.844 4.05 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
0.844 3.84 The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
0.844 4.06 Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
0.843 4.03 The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris
0.843 3.75 Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
0.842 4.17 Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
0.842 4.03 The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
0.842 3.84 Slow River by Nicola Griffith
0.84 4.1 The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
0.84 3.94 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
0.839 4.02 Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip
0.837 4.19 Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source by The Onion
0.836 4.18 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
0.835 4.1 Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
0.834 3.95 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
0.832 4.25 The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel
0.831 4.01 The Penguin Book of English Verse by John Hayward
0.829 4.2 The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
0.828 3.7 Thornyhold by Mary Stewart
0.828 4.22 Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
0.828 3.94 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
0.826 4.11 Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek by Bruce M. Metzger
0.826 4.35 Joy of Cooking [1975] by Irma S. Rombauer
0.818 3.8 Secrets of the Samurai: A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan by Oscar Ratti
0.817 4.26 The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.816 3.66 A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones
0.814 3.98 The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss by Nancy L. Mace
0.814 3.72 Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber
0.813 3.99 Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
0.812 4.19 The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
0.811 3.46 Paper Mage by Leah R. Cutter
0.811 4.22 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.806 3.92 Ancient Inventions by Peter James
0.803 3.87 The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Lady Nijo
0.802 4.1 Figures of Speech: Sixty Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur J. Quinn
0.8 3.75 Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears by Ellen Datlow
0.8 4.04 The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
0.798 4.02 Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack David Zipes
0.791 4.01 Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler
0.791 4.24 Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
0.79 4.11 Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson [Anchor Books] by Emily Dickinson
0.788 4.26 Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars by Richard K. Bernstein
0.787 4.01 The Mask of Command by John Keegan
0.786 4.36 Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
0.785 3.95 As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
0.78 3.98 Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
0.779 3.75 The Collapsing Universe: The Story of the Black Holes by Isaac Asimov
0.778 3.72 Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 by Ryusaku Tsunoda
0.774 4.14 The Greek Myths: Volume 1 by Robert Graves
0.773 4.36 The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff
0.77 4.04 The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart
0.769 4.15 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
0.767 2.84 Changeling: A Novella (Conversation Pieces, Volume 3) by Nancy Jane Moore
0.762 3.91 Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons by Serita Deborah Stevens
0.761 4.36 Flannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners by Sally Fitzgerald
0.758 3.96 The Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison
0.756 4.45 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.744 3.78 The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye
0.737 3.88 American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes
0.733 3.67 The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Judith L. Rapoport
0.729 4.25 The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon
0.718 4.15 The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
0.701 4.19 English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy
0.7 4.15 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.689 4.47 The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
0.682 4.55 The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
0.675 3.92 The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener
0.671 4.6 The Art of Andrew Wyeth by Wanda M. Corn
0.642 4.27 The Perspective of the World by Fernand Braudel
0.634 3.52 Bantam New College French/English Dictionary by Roger Steiner
0.618 3.6 Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary by Elizabeth R. Wollheim
0.604 3.83 Shinto: The Kami Way by Sokyo Ono
0.586 4.14 Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card
0.523 3.78 Civilization Before Greece and Rome by H. W. F. Saggs
0.46 4.54 The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách