Controversial Books for petwoe

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
1.317 3.3 Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller
1.177 3.44 Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance by Manfred Eigen
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.155 3.86 The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind by Donella H. Meadows
1.154 3.52 Python Pocket Reference by Mark Lutz
1.151 3.31 Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller
1.135 3.65 Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg
1.13 3.79 The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett
1.13 3.37 JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan
1.112 3.61 Who Am I?: And If So, How Many?: A Philosophical Journey by Richard David Precht
1.111 3.59 God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
1.091 3.35 The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett
1.09 3.64 Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
1.089 3.81 The Last Day of Creation by Wolfgang Jeschke
1.088 3.4 Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
1.069 3.86 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.065 3.84 The Reality Dysfunction, Part 1 of 2: Emergence by Peter F. Hamilton
1.058 3.64 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.056 3.53 Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts by Dan Lewis
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.047 3.77 A New Science of Life by Rupert Sheldrake
1.044 3.63 The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller
1.044 3.64 Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler
1.044 3.72 Der weiße Neger Wumbaba. Kleines Handbuch des Verhörens. by Axel Hacke
1.043 3.88 The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
1.037 3.84 On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.022 3.25 Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
1.022 3.14 Kleider machen Leute by Gottfried Keller
1.014 3.18 Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
1.013 3.79 Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1.011 3.33 Escape from Hell by Larry Niven
1.008 3.49 Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1.008 3.24 The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
1.006 3.42 William Tell by Friedrich Schiller
1.003 3.04 Les petits enfants du siècle by Christiane Rochefort
1.003 3.76 The Religion War by Scott Adams
1.001 3.52 A Tourist Guide to Lancre: A Discworld Mapp by Terry Pratchett
0.993 3.24 And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer
0.993 3.33 Strata by Terry Pratchett
0.992 3.58 Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins by Konrad Lorenz
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.987 3.78 The Discworld Mapp by Terry Pratchett
0.987 3.74 The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: Being a concise and possibly even accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld by Terry Pratchett
0.986 3.95 Schott's Almanac 2008 by Ben Schott
0.984 3.99 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.979 3.99 How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication by Paul Watzlawick
0.978 3.54 Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
0.978 3.71 Inferno by Larry Niven
0.977 4 Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk
0.975 3.79 The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations by Dietrich Dörner
0.972 4.06 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.966 3.52 Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle
0.965 3.95 The Colour of Magic ; The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
0.962 3.91 Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.961 3.58 Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
0.96 3.53 From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
0.96 3.53 The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
0.957 3.86 The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
0.957 3.78 Ringworld by Larry Niven
0.956 3.96 Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
0.956 3.68 Footfall by Larry Niven
0.955 3.65 Code of the Lifemaker by James P. Hogan
0.952 3.6 Lexikon des Unwissens: Worauf es bisher keine Antwort gibt by Kathrin Passig
0.952 3.77 Garou by Leonie Swann
0.952 4.1 The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney
0.952 3.81 Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne
0.95 3.61 Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
0.949 3.64 Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
0.947 3.59 Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
0.946 3.75 Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
0.944 3.79 The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
0.942 3.99 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.942 3.64 Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod by Bastian Sick
0.94 3.88 Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by Terry Pratchett
0.938 3.92 The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
0.938 3.73 The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
0.938 3.64 The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
0.936 3.9 The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right by Adrian Holovaty
0.936 3.78 Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.935 3.81 The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky
0.931 4 Winnetou by Karl May
0.931 3.63 Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.928 3.92 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
0.928 4.1 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
0.927 3.74 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
0.926 3.41 Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven
0.925 4.2 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
0.925 3.77 Misreadings by Umberto Eco
0.924 3.97 Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
0.924 3.65 The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
0.922 3.79 The Science of Discworld III : Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett
0.922 3.88 The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
0.921 3.76 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
0.92 3.71 Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
0.919 3.49 The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist
0.919 4.06 The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above by John Scalzi
0.919 3.57 The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.918 3.86 Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
0.916 3.61 Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
0.916 4.19 Hyperion by Dan Simmons
0.915 3.81 Langenscheidt's Pocket German Dictionary by Langenscheidt Publishers
0.914 4 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.913 3.58 HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
0.913 3.67 Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain by Tom Stafford
0.912 4.2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
0.91 4.09 The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
0.91 3.87 Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
0.91 3.86 The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
0.908 3.77 Lying on the Couch by Irvin Yalom
0.908 3.9 The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke by John Scalzi
0.907 4 The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton
0.906 4.03 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
0.906 3.82 Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
0.905 3.55 Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
0.904 4.03 The Human Division #9: The Observers by John Scalzi
0.904 3.93 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
0.904 3.74 The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch
0.902 3.73 Happy Days with Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
0.902 3.57 Eric by Terry Pratchett
0.9 3.96 Heir To The Empire by Timothy Zahn
0.9 3.82 Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
0.9 3.68 The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven
0.9 3.57 The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
0.9 3.64 Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
0.899 3.83 Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
0.899 3.75 The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
0.898 3.87 The Human Division #10: This Must Be the Place by John Scalzi
0.898 3.86 The Situation is Hopeless, But Not Serious by Paul Watzlawick
0.898 3.86 Strange Stories, Amazing Facts by Reader's Digest
0.898 3.79 The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
0.898 3.59 The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank by John Scalzi
0.896 4 The Last Command by Timothy Zahn
0.895 3.49 Building Harlequin's Moon by Larry Niven
0.895 3.66 Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
0.894 3.73 Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab
0.894 3.89 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
0.893 3.93 The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
0.892 3.72 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
0.891 3.87 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
0.89 3.9 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
0.888 3.76 Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. Folge 3. Noch mehr aus dem Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache by Bastian Sick
0.886 3.92 The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
0.886 3.66 First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
0.885 3.7 Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
0.883 3.83 The Human Division #4: A Voice in the Wilderness by John Scalzi
0.881 3.95 The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
0.88 4.07 The Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin
0.88 3.94 Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
0.88 3.58 Poseidon's Wake by Alastair Reynolds
0.88 3.98 Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
0.878 3.68 The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
0.876 3.86 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
0.876 3.81 Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
0.876 3.96 Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
0.875 3.89 Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
0.875 3.91 Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
0.875 3.41 The Long War by Terry Pratchett
0.875 4.11 Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
0.874 3.79 Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven
0.874 3.89 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
0.873 4.26 The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé by Oscar Wilde
0.871 3.77 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
0.871 4.02 The Human Division #8: The Sound of Rebellion by John Scalzi
0.871 3.98 Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide by Dave Thomas
0.869 3.8 Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
0.869 3.94 Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas
0.869 3.9 Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
0.868 3.74 Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
0.868 3.94 Youth Without God by Ödön von Horváth
0.868 4.01 Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.868 3.67 Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany by Ben Schott
0.867 4.2 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 3.82 Protector by Larry Niven
0.866 3.54 A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
0.866 3.9 A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
0.865 3.79 Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
0.865 3.53 The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
0.865 3.88 Zima Blue and Other Stories [Gollancz] by Alastair Reynolds
0.863 3.86 The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by Karl R. Popper
0.863 3.63 N or M? by Agatha Christie
0.863 3.82 Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver
0.861 4.07 The Human Division #12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads by John Scalzi
0.859 3.89 The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta, by Albert Einstein
0.859 3.49 Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven
0.858 4.18 The Physician by Noah Gordon
0.858 3.81 The Human Division #3: We Only Need the Heads by John Scalzi
0.858 3.84 A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez
0.857 3.72 Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
0.857 3.52 A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R. King
0.857 3.71 Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
0.856 4.25 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
0.856 3.71 Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
0.855 4.01 Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
0.855 4.06 The Human Division #11: A Problem of Proportion by John Scalzi
0.855 4.05 Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
0.854 4.09 The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
0.854 4.02 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
0.853 3.61 Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven
0.853 4.05 The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton
0.852 3.96 Asterix and the Golden Sickle by René Goscinny
0.852 3.82 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
0.851 3.94 The Human Division #7: The Dog King by John Scalzi
0.851 4.04 Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
0.849 3.56 Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
0.849 3.86 Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
0.849 4.01 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
0.848 3.63 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
0.847 3.98 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
0.847 4.35 Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero by Philip Morrison
0.846 3.84 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
0.845 4.08 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
0.845 4.2 Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
0.845 3.9 Schott's Almanac 2007 by Ben Schott
0.844 3.96 Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
0.844 3.91 Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
0.842 3.72 Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
0.842 3.78 Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel) by Peter F. Hamilton
0.842 4.02 The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
0.841 3.95 Jamie's Italy by Jamie Oliver
0.841 4.11 Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
0.84 3.82 Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez
0.84 3.5 The God Engines by John Scalzi
0.84 3.67 In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez
0.84 3.61 Monster by A. Lee Martinez
0.838 3.8 N-Space by Larry Niven
0.837 3.83 Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman
0.836 4.18 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
0.836 3.98 Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
0.834 4.01 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
0.834 3.95 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
0.829 4.06 Old Man's War by John Scalzi
0.828 3.97 Snuff by Terry Pratchett
0.828 3.89 Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
0.828 3.99 Jingo by Terry Pratchett
0.826 3.37 Mademoiselle de Scudéri by E. T. A. Hoffmann
0.825 3.79 Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. Folge 2: Neues aus dem Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache by Bastian Sick
0.824 4.01 Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
0.822 4.11 Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
0.822 3.91 Reigen / Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler
0.821 3.81 A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
0.82 3.96 The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
0.819 4.14 Asterix and Cleopatra by René Goscinny
0.819 3.76 The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton
0.818 3.99 The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings by Terry Pratchett
0.816 4.01 The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton
0.816 3.66 Betrayer of Worlds by Larry Niven
0.816 4.15 Thud! by Terry Pratchett
0.814 4.03 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
0.812 3.68 The Winds of Change ... And Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.809 4.07 The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
0.809 4 Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time by Patrick Robertson
0.807 4.08 Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
0.805 3.84 The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
0.803 3.95 Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
0.803 3.94 Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh
0.803 3.52 The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett
0.8 4.01 The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
0.8 3.7 A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton
0.799 3.83 Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds
0.799 3.9 The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
0.799 4.03 Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
0.798 4.25 Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
0.798 4.12 Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
0.797 4.05 Making Money by Terry Pratchett
0.797 4.06 Mort by Terry Pratchett
0.794 4.03 Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
0.794 3.67 QQ by Max Goldt
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.793 3.75 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
0.792 3.92 Dodger by Terry Pratchett
0.791 4.2 The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
0.789 3.64 Asimov's Guide to Science Volume 1: The Physical Sciences by Isaac Asimov
0.788 4.2 Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
0.787 3.77 Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
0.786 3.85 Flatlander: The Collected Tales of Gil "The Arm" Hamilton by Larry Niven
0.779 3.75 The Collapsing Universe: The Story of the Black Holes by Isaac Asimov
0.779 4.03 The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
0.778 3.88 Der Hund, der Eier legt. Erkennen von Fehlinformation durch Querdenken. by Hans-Peter Beck-Bornholdt
0.773 3.55 Tribulations of a Chinaman in China by Jules Verne
0.771 4.21 A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
0.769 4.03 What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell by Erwin Schrödinger
0.769 4.14 Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
0.768 3.82 Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
0.767 3.55 Murder in the Mews and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
0.766 4 The Human Division #1: The B-Team by John Scalzi
0.763 4.14 Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
0.762 3.99 Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.761 3.73 Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds
0.76 3.83 The End of All Things by John Scalzi
0.759 4.39 Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
0.758 3.81 Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld by Larry Niven
0.756 3.89 The Last Colony by John Scalzi
0.755 3.88 The Human Division #6: The Back Channel by John Scalzi
0.755 4 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
0.753 3.89 Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
0.752 4.26 Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
0.751 4 Young Gerber by Friedrich Torberg
0.748 3.68 Crashlander by Larry Niven
0.747 4.09 Deutsch für Profis. Wege zu gutem Stil. by Wolf Schneider
0.746 4.13 Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton
0.744 4.15 The Truth by Terry Pratchett
0.738 4.23 Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
0.737 3.95 The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
0.733 4.26 I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
0.726 3.85 Philip's Atlas of the Universe by Patrick Moore
0.717 4.35 The Sherlock Holmes Novels: A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of the Four / The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.716 3.8 On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds
0.708 4.36 Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach by Karl R. Popper
0.703 4.6 The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.701 3.88 The Best of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov
0.698 4.34 Miles Errant (Brothers in Arms / "The Borders of Infinity" / Mirror Dance) by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.698 3.89 Galactic North [collection] by Alastair Reynolds
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.692 3.78 Three Books of Known Space by Larry Niven
0.686 4.41 A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of Four / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.678 3.96 Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lie Hetland
0.66 4.45 The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Valley of Fear / His Last Bow / The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0.642 3.98 Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-step Guide by Martin Odersky
0.633 3.17 TekLab by William Shatner
0.618 3.92 Manhattan in Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton
0.397 3.76 Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk by Brent B. Welch