Controversial Books for mariaovalles

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
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.157 3.66 Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos
1.15 2.99 Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
1.136 3.61 I Am No One You Know: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
1.134 3.81 Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
1.12 3.29 Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors by Marquis de Sade
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.072 3.7 Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.05 3.62 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.039 3.97 The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.022 3.75 Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci
1.017 3.72 Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
1.013 4.01 Bestiary by Julio Cortázar
1.013 4.02 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
0.999 3.78 The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.989 4.16 Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
0.988 3.17 Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.975 3.52 No One Writes to the Colonel {novella} by Gabriel García Márquez
0.975 3.68 News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
0.975 3.67 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anónimo
0.974 3.73 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
0.973 3.58 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
0.972 3.93 São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos
0.969 3.8 Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.967 3.79 The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
0.967 3.78 The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli
0.963 4.1 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
0.961 3.92 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
0.96 3.88 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
0.959 3.84 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
0.959 3.9 Paula by Isabel Allende
0.958 3.87 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
0.95 3.84 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.949 4.08 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.949 3.72 The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
0.948 3.47 Putas Asesinas (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño
0.941 3.66 Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
0.939 4.1 Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar
0.938 4.15 Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.937 3.68 Camille: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas
0.936 4.11 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.926 3.9 The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.919 3.51 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
0.919 4.13 La autopista del sur y otros cuentos by Julio Cortázar
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.917 4.03 Hunger by Knut Hamsun
0.916 4.09 A Certain Lucas by Julio Cortázar
0.915 3.93 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
0.913 3.94 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
0.911 3.13 The Chiefs / The Cubs by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.911 3.96 Anguish by Graciliano Ramos
0.908 3.51 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
0.907 3.65 The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.906 4.19 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
0.906 3.63 Big Mama’s Funeral: Short Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.903 4.26 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
0.899 3.9 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.899 3.58 La loca de la casa by Rosa Montero
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.894 3.97 The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
0.888 3.91 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.882 3.81 Drown by Junot Díaz
0.876 4.14 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
0.87 3.74 Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
0.869 3.72 Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
0.867 4.26 The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
0.863 3.66 The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
0.858 3.86 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
0.855 3.56 In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez
0.855 3.81 Leviathan by Paul Auster
0.847 3.82 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
0.843 4.1 End of the Game by Julio Cortázar
0.841 3.59 Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
0.832 4.05 All Fires the Fire by Julio Cortázar
0.829 3.26 The Flight of the Queen by Tomás Eloy Martínez
0.826 4.1 In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
0.825 4.15 What Is the What by Dave Eggers
0.819 3.78 The Third Man by Graham Greene
0.814 3.38 Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
0.814 3.31 Nostra signora della solitudine by Marcela Serrano
0.808 4.19 Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
0.807 4.31 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
0.798 3.81 Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.779 3.73 Llamadas telefónicas by Roberto Bolaño
0.75 3.77 The Winners by Julio Cortázar
0.723 4.11 Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
0.721 3.67 The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño