Controversial Books for nbcarmel

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
1.457 3.21 The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe
1.308 3.56 Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso
1.25 3.67 The Future of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.227 3.82 Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis
1.221 3.72 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
1.22 2.89 The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution Is Trying to Make America Livable (WRONG ISBN) by Charles A. Reich
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.201 3.29 Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy by Warren Commission
1.192 3.68 Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
1.188 3.64 Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
1.169 3.61 Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society by Paul Goodman
1.166 3.34 The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
1.165 3.47 Self and Others by R. D. Laing
1.164 3.24 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
1.16 3.59 Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
1.159 3.3 The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
1.157 3.11 Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things by Laurence Gonzales
1.157 3.65 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
1.155 3.46 The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now! by Mark Hyman
1.148 3.69 Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis by Bill Bonner
1.143 2.36 The Brotherhood: The Explosive Expose of the Secret World of the Freemasons by Stephen Knight
1.14 3.83 Mating by Norman Rush
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.136 3.15 The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America by Bill O'Reilly
1.135 3.43 He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt
1.131 3.81 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.127 3.63 For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.123 3.93 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
1.122 3.3 The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
1.122 3.75 Praise of Folly, and Letter to Maarten van Dorp by Desiderius Erasmus
1.119 3.72 The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson
1.116 3.58 The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.11 3.44 Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market by Jim Rogers
1.109 3.07 The Gathering by Anne Enright
1.104 3.02 When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian
1.104 4.09 Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud
1.099 3.43 Birding [Nature Company Guides] by Joseph Michael Forshaw
1.098 3.23 The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
1.097 3.67 No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
1.096 3.41 Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.089 3.59 Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle
1.087 3.4 The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston
1.084 3.76 The Good Son by Michael Gruber
1.084 3.99 Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
1.084 4.23 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1.082 3.77 On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.081 3.71 The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
1.08 3.65 The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India by Thomas Mann
1.079 3.91 Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed
1.078 3.19 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
1.078 3.85 The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
1.078 3.24 Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1.077 3.37 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
1.077 3.72 Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
1.074 3.58 Rabbit, Run by John Updike
1.07 4 The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
1.068 3.23 When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
1.067 3.69 Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1.067 3.63 Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.064 3.88 Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1.063 3.46 Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner
1.063 3.36 The Ultimate Good Luck by Richard Ford
1.062 3.41 La Belle France by Alistair Horne
1.062 3.66 American Sniper by Chris Kyle
1.062 3.6 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 by Richard Dawkins
1.059 3.96 The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman
1.058 3.31 Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
1.058 3.64 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.057 3.44 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1.057 3.53 The Road to Character by David Brooks
1.056 3.89 Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen
1.055 3.47 Tinkers by Paul Harding
1.055 3.64 Piers Plowman by William Langland
1.055 3.65 How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.054 3.54 I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman
1.051 3.65 A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
1.051 3.98 Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
1.05 3.48 The Sea by John Banville
1.05 3.62 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1.047 3.69 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
1.047 3.3 Blue Angel by Francine Prose
1.045 3.85 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
1.043 3.92 That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
1.043 3.37 A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.041 3.64 One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
1.041 3.46 Volpone, or The Fox by Ben Jonson
1.041 3.96 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
1.04 4.26 Moby-Dick [Norton Critical Edition] by Herman Melville
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.038 3.69 The Vintage Mencken by H. L. Mencken
1.037 3.62 The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
1.037 3.84 On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
1.037 4.19 How Children Learn by John Holt
1.037 3.54 The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
1.037 3.57 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1.037 3.88 The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
1.035 3.58 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
1.035 3.6 A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
1.034 3.89 About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.034 3.91 Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
1.033 3.54 Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
1.033 3.86 The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
1.032 3.55 Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
1.032 3.55 The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.031 3.95 Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
1.031 3.6 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1.031 3.77 Cane [Norton Critical Edition] by Jean Toomer
1.031 3.93 Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
1.03 3.83 Calculus and analytic geometry by George B. Thomas
1.03 3.65 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.38 All That Is by James Salter
1.029 3.36 Atala / René by François-René de Chateaubriand
1.029 3.77 How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad by William J. O'Neil
1.028 3.75 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
1.028 3.84 The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. Hazen
1.027 3.83 Maps of meaning: the architecture of belief by Jordan B. Peterson
1.026 3.77 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
1.025 3.79 Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt by Esther Forbes
1.025 3.62 In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters
1.025 3.66 The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
1.025 3.7 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1.024 3.69 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1.024 4.08 Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind by Stephen Crane
1.023 3.13 Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
1.021 3.47 Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World by James J. Cramer
1.021 4 The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung
1.021 3.65 The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
1.021 3.56 The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
1.021 3.48 The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers
1.02 4.31 The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1.019 3.93 Light Years by James Salter
1.018 3.54 Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
1.018 3.95 The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
1.018 4.11 The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs by James A. Duke
1.017 3.81 Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems [Complete] by Rudyard Kipling
1.016 3.26 The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1.016 3.63 The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.016 3.61 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.016 3.61 Strait is the Gate by André Gide
1.015 3.89 The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
1.015 4.05 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.012 3.62 Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
1.012 3.77 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
1.011 3.33 After This by Alice McDermott
1.01 3.75 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
1.01 3.27 Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.009 3.46 The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 3.81 The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
1.008 3.64 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.008 3.83 Coming Apart by Charles Murray
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.56 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
1.007 3.93 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1.007 3.68 "Master Harold" … and the Boys by Athol Fugard
1.007 3.4 The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine
1.006 2.8 Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
1.006 3.68 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
1.006 3.84 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.006 3.86 Pensées by Blaise Pascal
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.005 3.86 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
1.004 3.81 The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 4.01 Possession by A.S. Byatt
1.003 3.95 How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
1.003 4.08 The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
1.002 3.98 The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
1 3.83 Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
0.999 3.23 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
0.999 3.8 On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
0.999 3.96 Three Tragedies by Federico García Lorca
0.998 3.99 Paradise Lost by John Milton
0.998 3.78 The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
0.998 4.15 Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
0.997 3.35 A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
0.997 3.98 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.997 3.67 Politics by Aristotle
0.997 3.99 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.997 3.81 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
0.996 4.02 On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.93 The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon M. Lederman
0.996 3.97 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
0.996 3.68 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
0.995 3.78 Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
0.995 3.99 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
0.995 3.57 Childhood and Society by Erik H. Erikson
0.994 3.51 The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
0.994 3.65 A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Van Doren
0.993 3.78 The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas M. Nichols
0.993 3.47 Heliopolis by James Scudamore
0.991 3.9 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.991 3.6 Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
0.99 3.19 Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.99 4.01 Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
0.989 3.39 Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.95 An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan
0.989 3.41 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.988 3.89 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.987 3.78 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
0.987 3.64 Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
0.987 3.72 The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
0.987 3.82 The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.985 3.6 Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
0.985 3.9 Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
0.984 3.33 I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
0.984 3.95 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.982 3.53 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
0.982 3.71 The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich by Thomas J. Stanley
0.981 3.91 The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel by Brady Udall
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.98 3.73 The Analects by Confucius
0.98 3.75 Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O'Rourke
0.979 3.8 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
0.978 3.53 Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
0.978 3.54 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.977 4.01 Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
0.977 3.55 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
0.977 3.78 The Sellout by Paul Beatty
0.977 3.7 Advice to a Young Scientist by P. B. Medawar
0.977 3.87 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
0.976 3.55 Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives by Dean Buonomano
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.975 3.92 Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
0.975 3.75 Trees of North America: A Field Guide to the Major Native and Introduced Species North of Mexico by C. Frank Brockman
0.975 3.19 The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
0.975 3.67 The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
0.974 4.02 Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
0.973 3.58 A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
0.973 3.8 What Is History? by E. H. Carr
0.973 3.99 Home by Marilynne Robinson
0.973 3.78 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
0.972 3.4 The Pocket Book of Quotations by Henry Davidoff
0.972 3.75 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
0.972 4.03 Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp
0.972 3.85 Independence Day by Richard Ford
0.972 3.57 Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.971 3.87 The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
0.971 3.74 The Power by Naomi Alderman
0.971 3.57 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
0.971 3.47 Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
0.971 3.31 Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein
0.97 3.71 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
0.97 3.53 The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.97 3.59 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.969 3.32 The Pleasing Hour by Lily King
0.969 3.78 Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig
0.968 3.81 In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
0.968 3.71 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.968 3.93 A Death in the Family by James Agee
0.967 3.68 The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
0.966 3.81 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
0.966 3.55 Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall
0.966 3.91 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
0.965 4.03 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
0.964 3.7 Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
0.964 3.95 Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
0.964 3.87 Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.964 3.56 The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
0.963 3.72 The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
0.962 3.91 The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains by Robert H. Lustig
0.962 3.75 The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
0.962 3.86 A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller
0.962 3.93 The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
0.962 3.78 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
0.961 3.75 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
0.961 3.96 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
0.961 3.77 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
0.961 3.92 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
0.96 3.5 Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
0.96 4.1 Norman Rockwell: A Sixty Year Retrospective by Norman Rockwell
0.959 3.84 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
0.959 3.21 Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
0.959 3.88 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
0.959 3.97 The Ogre by Michel Tournier
0.959 3.75 Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind by Hubert Reeves
0.959 3.77 One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch
0.959 3.45 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.958 3.99 Light in August by William Faulkner
0.958 3.73 The Search for Order, 1877-1920 by Robert H. Wiebe
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.958 3.42 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
0.958 3.97 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
0.958 3.65 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
0.957 3.79 While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer
0.957 3.68 Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
0.957 3.98 The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
0.957 3.44 Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
0.957 3.92 My Ántonia by Willa Cather
0.957 3.56 The Bostonians by Henry James
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.73 Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
0.955 3.77 The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds
0.955 4.1 Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
0.954 4.14 Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
0.954 3.8 Candide by Voltaire
0.954 3.79 The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 by Paul Fussell
0.954 3.61 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
0.953 3.76 Lush Life by Richard Price
0.953 3.38 How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
0.953 4.19 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
0.952 3.39 How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
0.952 3.8 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
0.951 3.93 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
0.951 3.67 Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft by Paul Allen
0.951 3.5 NW by Zadie Smith
0.951 3.06 A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves
0.951 3.88 Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod
0.951 3.76 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
0.951 4.03 Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm
0.951 3.61 Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
0.95 4.2 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.95 3.54 The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.95 3.84 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.95 3.53 Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
0.95 3.48 The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
0.95 3.26 Point Omega by Don DeLillo
0.949 4.13 Martin Eden by Jack London
0.949 3.74 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
0.948 3.59 The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
0.947 3.94 The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
0.947 4.1 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
0.947 3.61 From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
0.946 3.94 London by Edward Rutherfurd
0.946 3.59 Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers by E. Fuller Torrey
0.946 3.9 The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard
0.945 3.65 Take Time for Your Life by Cheryl Richardson
0.945 3.76 Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
0.945 4.06 Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S. Heidler
0.945 3.63 Canada by Richard Ford
0.945 3.79 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
0.944 4.15 Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
0.944 3.93 The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
0.944 4.26 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
0.944 3.75 A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
0.944 3.89 On Free Choice of the Will by Saint Augustine
0.943 3.8 An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
0.943 3.67 The Book of Evidence by John Banville
0.943 3.67 Amerika by Franz Kafka
0.943 3.37 Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
0.942 3.99 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.942 3.49 The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
0.942 3.4 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
0.942 4.07 Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
0.942 3.39 Anthill: A Novel by Edward O. Wilson
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.942 3.52 The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber
0.942 3.79 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
0.941 3.65 Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) by Elenore Smith Bowen
0.941 3.38 By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
0.94 3.93 Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
0.94 4.07 The Overstory by Richard Powers
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
0.94 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 4.12 The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
0.939 4.08 Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark
0.939 3.45 Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
0.939 3.9 The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
0.938 3.68 How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.938 3.74 What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz
0.938 4.1 The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
0.937 3.72 Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
0.937 3.22 The Friendship Test by Elizabeth Noble
0.937 3.81 The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.937 3.96 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
0.937 3.71 The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
0.936 3.84 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
0.936 3.67 The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.89 No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos
0.936 4.07 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.77 Smart Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner by David Bach
0.935 3.36 A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
0.935 3.52 Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass
0.935 3.98 The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
0.935 3.94 The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro
0.935 3.62 101 Great American Poems by American Poetry & Literacy Project
0.934 3.9 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
0.934 3.71 A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
0.934 3.21 The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind by David Guterson
0.934 3.94 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz
0.933 4.25 Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver
0.933 4.2 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
0.933 3.86 How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
0.932 4.03 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.932 3.82 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
0.931 3.76 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
0.931 3.89 The Counterlife by Philip Roth
0.931 3.92 Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
0.93 3.95 Waterland by Graham Swift
0.93 4.08 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.93 4.02 The Symposium by Plato
0.929 3.76 March by Geraldine Brooks
0.929 3.75 Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman
0.929 4.08 Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
0.929 3.98 Great Dialogues of Plato by Plato
0.928 4.22 English Grammar and Composition by John E. Warriner
0.928 3.47 Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
0.928 3.66 The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
0.927 3.65 Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
0.927 4.06 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
0.927 3.96 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
0.927 3.73 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
0.926 3.89 Great Plains by Ian Frazier
0.926 4.09 The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0.925 4.03 Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
0.925 3.82 Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim Flannery
0.925 3.92 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
0.924 3.4 Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
0.924 3.78 Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William D. Cohan
0.924 3.57 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
0.924 3.69 Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
0.923 3.58 The Immoralist by André Gide
0.923 3.69 Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray
0.922 3.92 Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.93 Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
0.922 3.62 AMA Family Medical Guide by American M... Association
0.922 4.08 A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna
0.922 3.86 H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
0.921 4.06 The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean M. Carroll
0.921 3.96 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
0.921 3.67 The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
0.921 3.93 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
0.921 3.85 The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard Feynman
0.92 4.1 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch by George Eliot
0.92 3.76 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
0.92 3.97 London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
0.919 3.74 Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox
0.919 4.16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.919 4.09 Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown
0.919 3.66 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
0.919 3.64 Good Grief by Lolly Winston
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.919 3.56 The Green Road by Anne Enright
0.919 4.04 The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
0.918 3.63 How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
0.918 3.97 The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
0.918 3.95 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
0.918 3.71 The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.918 4.07 American Gods {original} by Neil Gaiman
0.918 3.86 Dear Life by Alice Munro
0.918 4.01 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
0.918 3.4 Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
0.918 3.64 The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
0.918 3.74 Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike by Grant Petersen
0.918 3.04 Maestro by Bob Woodward
0.917 3.38 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
0.917 3.85 Amongst Women by John McGahern
0.916 3.87 Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
0.916 3.62 The End of Food by Paul Roberts
0.916 4.12 Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
0.916 3.75 The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
0.915 3.99 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
0.915 3.57 The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
0.915 3.91 New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
0.915 3.69 How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
0.915 3.89 Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
0.914 3.9 Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey
0.913 3.56 Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
0.913 3.43 Foe by J. M. Coetzee
0.913 3.75 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
0.913 4.05 Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan