Controversial Books for nancykric

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
1.324 3.57 I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
1.14 3.44 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
1.134 3.6 Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter
1.114 3.41 Loving by Henry Green
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.104 3.9 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1.103 3.49 House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
1.091 3.57 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.048 3.81 Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
1.031 3.86 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.029 3.58 The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
1.02 3.45 The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
1.016 3.8 The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
1.006 3.72 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
1.004 3.88 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1 4.12 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
0.987 3.78 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
0.987 3.41 The Secret Life of Saeed, The Pessoptimist by Imīl Ḥabībī
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.982 3.53 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
0.979 3.42 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
0.977 3.65 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
0.972 3.98 Habibi by Craig Thompson
0.963 3.65 Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
0.962 3.62 From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger
0.961 3.82 Black Tickets: Stories by Jayne Anne Phillips
0.956 3.82 The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
0.944 4 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
0.943 3.9 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.938 3.84 Sula by Toni Morrison
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.933 3.9 Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
0.927 3.98 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
0.926 3.83 Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
0.925 3.73 The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
0.925 3.66 Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
0.923 4 The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
0.921 4.14 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.919 4.16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.917 3.84 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
0.911 3.9 The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
0.911 4.14 The Chosen by Chaim Potok
0.91 3.71 What I Believe (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
0.909 4.18 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
0.908 3.71 Speedboat by Renata Adler
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
0.894 3.65 The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
0.894 3.54 De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
0.893 3.89 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
0.893 3.95 The dead souls by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.891 4.19 A Season in Hell / The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
0.89 3.44 Shake Off by Mischa Hiller
0.882 3.96 Epileptic by David B.
0.881 3.83 How Fiction Works by James Wood
0.88 4.16 The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
0.879 3.88 Autumn by Ali Smith
0.877 3.64 Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
0.877 3.98 Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
0.875 4.21 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.873 3.98 Howards End by E. M. Forster
0.872 4.04 The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
0.867 4.17 Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
0.862 3.75 Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
0.862 3.59 The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswani
0.86 4.11 The Door by Magda Szabó
0.854 4.04 Wild Thorns by Saḥar Khalīfah
0.854 4.14 Just Kids by Patti Smith
0.852 3.88 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
0.852 4.03 And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran
0.85 4 An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Aeschylus
0.847 4.21 Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara
0.844 4.06 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
0.843 4.33 The complete poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
0.842 4.21 My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
0.842 3.84 Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
0.836 4.36 Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
0.836 4.24 Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
0.834 4.3 A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
0.833 4.17 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
0.832 4.06 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
0.831 4.34 Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
0.831 4.19 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
0.83 3.68 The End of Eddy: A Novel by Édouard Louis
0.83 4.01 The Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
0.829 4.09 Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
0.826 4 Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest
0.823 4.18 Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
0.82 3.36 Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
0.819 3.74 Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz
0.818 4.27 Banksy: Wall and Piece by Banksy
0.816 3.8 Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
0.816 3.98 The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
0.815 4.25 Matilda by Roald Dahl
0.814 3.98 An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
0.813 4.08 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
0.812 4.38 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga
0.808 3.79 The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge
0.806 4.24 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
0.79 3.89 Black Wave by Michelle Tea
0.79 4.25 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
0.789 4.07 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
0.788 4.05 A Writer at War. Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
0.788 4.29 The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert
0.787 4.15 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
0.787 4.24 Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Volume 1 by Keiji Nakazawa
0.785 4.34 The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley
0.782 3.95 Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
0.781 4 The Round House by Louise Erdrich
0.778 4 Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
0.776 4.15 Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
0.774 4.25 The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
0.773 4.07 Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
0.77 4.15 Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
0.769 4.42 Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
0.768 4.07 The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
0.767 3.79 A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
0.767 4.16 Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
0.766 4.04 Spring by Ali Smith
0.762 4.52 Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
0.754 4.1 Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon
0.742 4.25 Nox by Anne Carson
0.74 4.3 Immediate Family by Sally Mann
0.737 3.73 History of Violence: A Novel by Édouard Louis
0.737 4.4 The Elements of Style Illustrated by Jr. William Strunk
0.733 4.18 Ararat by Louise Glück
0.732 4.11 Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
0.731 3.71 In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
0.727 4.43 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
0.726 3.89 Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook
0.724 4.34 If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
0.719 3.96 Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors by Pete Dunne
0.716 4.3 Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast
0.716 4.44 Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
0.708 4.22 Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
0.707 4.05 Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Didier Eribon
0.689 3.74 The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
0.688 3.94 Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
0.687 4.03 Summer by Ali Smith
0.687 4.53 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
0.687 3.82 A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return by Zeina Abirached
0.667 4.18 Gender Failure by Rae Spoon
0.634 4.4 Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles
0.625 4.3 Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
0.619 4.54 James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
0.58 4.6 James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays by James Baldwin
0.556 4.26 Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
0.529 4.31 The Road by Vasily Grossman
0.516 4.27 Paying the Land by Joe Sacco