Controversial Books for rsouthard142

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
1.243 3.88 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.198 3.46 Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes
1.197 3.98 The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling by An English Mystic of the Fourteenth Century
1.196 3.43 Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
1.183 3.48 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
1.181 3.75 A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man [Norton Critical Edition] by James Joyce
1.174 3.73 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.167 3.64 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1.167 3.95 Writings, 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays by William James
1.163 3.72 The Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
1.16 3.8 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.153 3.49 Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
1.143 3.63 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1.137 3.77 Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day by Eric Hobsbawm
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.134 3.81 Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
1.131 3.81 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.123 3.93 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
1.122 4.12 Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann
1.122 3.54 Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.115 3.6 The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
1.114 3.95 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.109 3.54 The Roving Shadows by Pascal Quignard
1.103 3.52 Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud by Herbert Marcuse
1.103 3.56 Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson
1.097 3.4 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.093 3.93 The Qur'an (Abdel Haleem) by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
1.092 3.75 The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
1.091 3.9 The Art Lover: A Novel by Carole Maso
1.091 3.49 Emile: Or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.091 3.53 The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.089 3.88 The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
1.086 4.02 The Works of Philo by C. D. Yonge
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.081 3.78 The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by Teresa de Ávila
1.077 3.97 Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1.072 3.7 Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
1.069 3.62 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.067 3.69 Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1.067 3.24 Fury by Salman Rushdie
1.066 3.74 Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.064 3.88 Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.06 3.96 City of God by Saint Augustine
1.055 3.84 Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
1.054 3.93 Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.051 3.2 Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif
1.049 3.88 Theological-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza
1.049 3.49 The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.042 3.59 The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
1.042 3.72 Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
1.039 3.55 Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
1.037 3.74 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.036 3.6 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.033 4.12 Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson
1.031 3.86 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.031 3.77 Cane [Norton Critical Edition] by Jean Toomer
1.03 4.18 Mere Christianity / The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.53 The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
1.027 3.64 The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
1.027 3.95 The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
1.026 3.9 Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1.025 3.56 The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
1.024 3.69 Enemies of promise by Cyril Connolly
1.024 3.96 All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms by E. M. Cioran
1.024 3.93 No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
1.023 3.86 Edgeworks 2: Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison
1.022 3.74 Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
1.021 4.12 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1.021 3.66 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.47 Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.65 The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
1.019 3.95 Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
1.018 3.82 The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
1.018 4 Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.61 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.016 3.98 Reader's Block by David Markson
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.013 4.09 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.013 4.01 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
1.011 3.93 The Next American Essay by John D'Agata
1.01 4 The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.009 3.71 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
1.009 3.97 The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.64 The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1.006 3.82 The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
1.006 3.84 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.006 3.87 Pensées by Blaise Pascal
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.004 4.22 The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (The Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Bentley Layton
1.004 3.81 The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
1.004 3.88 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.004 3.84 The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
1.003 3.57 Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
1.001 3.87 The New Science by Giambattista Vico
1.001 3.85 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1 4.12 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
0.999 3.54 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
0.999 3.74 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
0.999 3.65 Aura by Carlos Fuentes
0.999 3.8 On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.84 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
0.997 3.99 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 4.01 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
0.995 3.75 Black Spring by Henry Miller
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.993 3.52 Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
0.992 4.04 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
0.991 3.28 Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics) by Aphra Behn
0.99 4 The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
0.989 3.93 Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.989 3.79 Karl Marx: Selected Writings by Karl Marx
0.989 4.01 The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 4.17 Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
0.989 4.19 Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self by C. G. Jung
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.988 3.62 Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
0.988 3.79 Dog Years by Günter Grass
0.987 4.16 The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm
0.987 3.46 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
0.985 3.65 10:04: A Novel by Ben Lerner
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.984 3.94 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.983 4.2 Middlemarch [Norton Critical Edition] by George Eliot
0.982 3.97 The Upanishads by Anonymous
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.981 3.7 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
0.98 3.73 The Analects by Confucius
0.978 3.54 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.977 3.65 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
0.976 3.69 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.975 4.53 Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2 by Mark Twain
0.975 3.66 Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
0.974 3.98 Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
0.974 3.82 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
0.973 3.74 The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.971 3.57 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.968 3.83 The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.967 4.18 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
0.966 4.02 Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
0.966 3.91 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
0.965 3.48 The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) by Francis Bacon
0.964 4.04 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.963 4.1 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
0.963 3.81 Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics by R. D. Laing
0.963 3.92 Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence McKenna
0.962 4.09 The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
0.962 3.77 The Scarlet Letter [Norton Critical Edition] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.962 3.84 Victory by Joseph Conrad
0.962 4.08 The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
0.962 4.21 The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
0.962 4.04 Edgeworks 3: The Harlan Ellison Hornbook / Harlan Ellison's Movie by Harlan Ellison
0.961 4.05 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
0.96 3.67 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
0.96 4.25 The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
0.959 4.02 Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
0.959 3.93 Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories by Harlan Ellison
0.958 3.99 Light in August by William Faulkner
0.958 3.9 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.958 3.93 Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
0.957 3.59 Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.83 Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
0.955 3.85 Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
0.955 3.95 The Apostle: A Life of Paul by John Pollock
0.955 3.9 Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire
0.954 4.13 The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
0.954 3.8 Novels and Social Writings: The People of the Abyss / The Road / The Iron Heel / Martin Eden / John Barleycorn by Jack London
0.952 3.62 Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
0.951 3.6 Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
0.951 3.86 Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter Arnold Kaufmann
0.95 4.2 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.95 3.91 Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
0.95 3.85 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.947 4.2 The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
0.947 3.97 Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
0.946 4.1 Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
0.945 4.04 The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
0.944 4.15 Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
0.944 4 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
0.943 4.11 The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza
0.943 3.9 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
0.942 4.02 The Odyssey by Homer
0.941 4.16 The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
0.941 4.13 The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
0.941 3.82 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories by Harlan Ellison
0.94 4 Black Boy by Richard Wright
0.94 3.74 The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by da Vinci Leonardo
0.94 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 4.14 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.937 3.66 How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.935 3.71 The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
0.935 3.98 Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
0.934 3.93 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz
0.933 4.15 Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.932 4.32 A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
0.93 3.71 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
0.929 4.2 The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
0.929 3.79 A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy
0.929 3.77 A King Alone by Jean Giono
0.929 3.83 The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
0.928 4.07 Blindness by José Saramago
0.928 3.2 Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics by Martin Gardner
0.927 3.82 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.925 3.79 The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph
0.924 3.87 Solaris by Stanisław Lem
0.923 3.86 The Human Province by Elias Canetti
0.923 3.58 The Immoralist by André Gide
0.923 3.81 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 4.04 Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
0.922 4.3 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
0.921 4.05 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.921 4.18 Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
0.92 4.1 From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.92 3.84 Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
0.919 4.09 Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown
0.919 4.16 Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.919 4.21 The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
0.918 4.11 Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 6 by Søren Kierkegaard
0.917 3.85 Amongst Women by John McGahern
0.916 4.14 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
0.916 4.18 Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
0.916 3.85 The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.915 3.92 This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
0.915 3.75 The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
0.915 3.62 Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
0.913 3.96 Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso
0.913 3.95 The Books in My Life by Henry Miller
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
0.911 4.13 Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
0.911 4.19 Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.91 3.9 A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
0.91 3.82 The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
0.91 3.8 Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
0.91 3.65 ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
0.909 3.89 The Fall by Albert Camus
0.909 3.68 The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
0.908 3.82 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
0.908 4.02 The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
0.908 3.73 Speedboat by Renata Adler
0.908 3.84 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
0.908 3.76 A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe
0.908 4.29 John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.907 4.03 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
0.906 3.76 Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
0.906 4.19 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
0.906 4.17 The Way of a Pilgrim / The Pilgrim Continues His Way by Anonymous
0.906 3.81 Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
0.905 4.1 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.904 3.98 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
0.904 3.91 Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
0.903 4.26 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
0.903 3.79 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
0.903 4.15 Mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature by Erich Auerbach
0.901 4.1 The Burning Plain, and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
0.901 3.87 The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
0.899 4.24 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
0.898 3.78 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
0.898 3.97 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
0.898 4.04 Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
0.897 4.03 Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
0.897 4 Ubik by Philip K. Dick
0.896 3.85 Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
0.895 3.98 The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson
0.895 4.11 The Portable Machiavelli by Peter Bondanella
0.895 4.02 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
0.894 3.65 The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
0.894 4.17 The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
0.894 4.11 Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer
0.893 3.88 The Floating Opera and The End of the Road by John Barth
0.893 3.64 The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lilla
0.892 3.7 The Republic and The Law by Cicero
0.892 3.96 Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France by Kermit Lynch
0.891 3.94 Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
0.891 4.03 Silence by Shūsaku Endō
0.891 4.15 Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.89 3.98 The Annals / The Histories by P. Cornelius Tacitus
0.89 3.77 Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
0.889 3.72 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
0.888 4.24 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
0.887 4.12 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.887 4.15 Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
0.885 3.41 Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas de Quincey
0.885 4 Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler
0.885 4.1 Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
0.883 4.01 The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung by C. G. Jung
0.882 3.7 Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
0.882 4.06 The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
0.881 4.12 Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
0.881 4.01 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
0.88 4.03 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
0.88 3.63 The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky
0.879 4.05 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
0.878 4.34 Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
0.878 3.91 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
0.877 3.76 The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
0.877 3.72 Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima
0.876 3.87 Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
0.876 3.62 The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
0.875 3.96 Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
0.875 3.82 More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
0.874 3.88 Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
0.873 3.75 The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David L. Lewis
0.872 3.86 Dreams by C. G. Jung
0.872 3.9 Again, Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
0.872 3.91 Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.869 3.81 The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
0.867 4.03 Either/Or 1: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 3 by Søren Kierkegaard
0.867 4.2 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.865 3.95 Basic Writings of Kant by Immanuel Kant
0.864 4.33 On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei by Athanasius
0.863 4.13 A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.862 4.04 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
0.862 4.18 The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
0.86 3.88 The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
0.86 3.84 The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
0.859 3.89 The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories by Tayeb Salih
0.858 4.03 Mist by Miguel de Unamuno
0.858 4.22 Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin
0.856 4.06 Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
0.855 4.51 The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross
0.854 4.03 The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
0.854 3.89 The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.852 3.89 The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
0.851 4.39 Whitman: Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman
0.851 4.21 Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch
0.85 4.03 The Portable Voltaire by Voltaire
0.849 4.16 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
0.847 3.95 Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles by Euripides
0.847 3.76 The Years by Virginia Woolf
0.847 4.55 The Philokalia: The Complete Text (Vol. 1); Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Markarios of Corinth by G. E. H. Palmer
0.846 3.88 Black Box by Amos Oz
0.844 4.05 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
0.844 3.84 The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
0.843 4.12 Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
0.843 3.84 Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino
0.842 3.5 Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
0.842 4.25 The poems of Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.84 4.13 Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
0.837 4.12 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
0.836 4.18 Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
0.834 4.3 The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
0.834 4.27 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
0.833 4.36 Stories by Anton Chekhov
0.833 3.94 The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.833 4.05 Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
0.832 4.05 All Fires the Fire by Julio Cortázar
0.832 4.02 The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
0.832 4.01 Mythologies by Roland Barthes
0.832 4.03 A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
0.831 4.17 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.828 4.31 Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
0.828 4.22 The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
0.827 3.97 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
0.827 4.31 Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edición bilingüe) by Pablo Neruda
0.824 3.83 Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann
0.824 4.15 A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.823 4.05 Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka
0.822 4.13 The Histories by Herodotus
0.822 4.31 The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
0.822 4.17 Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver
0.822 4.38 The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha by Michael D. Coogan
0.821 3.85 The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx
0.821 3.89 4 Plays: Alcestis / Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Medea by Euripides
0.82 4.2 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.818 4.39 The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
0.818 4.23 The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.817 3.86 Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
0.816 4.16 The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
0.815 3.9 Selected Stories by Lu Hsun
0.815 4.15 Dispatches by Michael Herr
0.814 3.79 The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
0.813 3.99 What Is Life? : With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrödinger
0.813 4.18 Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.812 3.76 The Essential Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
0.811 4.39 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
0.81 4.04 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
0.809 4.32 The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
0.807 3.73 Microworlds by Stanisław Lem
0.807 4.02 Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
0.805 4.01 The Nag Hammadi Scriptures by Marvin W. Meyer
0.805 4.21 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
0.805 4.29 Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.805 4.21 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.804 3.33 The Actual by Saul Bellow
0.803 3.84 Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
0.803 4.16 Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Lord Byron
0.802 4.3 The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
0.802 3.9 Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō
0.801 3.71 In The Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker
0.801 3.8 Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
0.801 3.97 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
0.8 4.14 Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran
0.8 4.24 The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell
0.799 3.89 The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi
0.798 3.71 Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison
0.797 4.11 Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
0.796 4.04 TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis
0.795 4.22 Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
0.795 3.79 Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
0.793 4.09 The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
0.792 4.35 Symbols of Transformation by C. G. Jung
0.791 4.34 The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison
0.791 4.09 Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
0.79 4.03 The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
0.79 4.27 Stoner by John Williams
0.79 4.25 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
0.789 4.04 The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti
0.788 4.13 Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
0.786 3.96 The Nonexistent Knight / The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
0.784 4.2 History of Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss
0.783 3.85 Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
0.783 4.09 All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell
0.783 3.77 Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
0.782 4.13 Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
0.782 4.08 Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
0.778 4.3 Metamorphoses : Books 1-8 [bilingual Latin English] by Ovid
0.777 4.15 The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
0.774 4.14 The Greek Myths: Volume 1 by Robert Graves
0.767 4.18 Edgeworks 1: Over the Edge / An Edge in My Voice by Harlan Ellison
0.767 4.43 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
0.765 3.81 The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino
0.762 4.06 Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis
0.76 3.64 And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
0.759 4 New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
0.756 4.45 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.75 4.41 The Poetry and Prose of William Blake {Erdman, ed.} by William Blake
0.75 4.33 Economy and Society [complete] by Max Weber
0.749 4.37 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
0.747 4.3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.745 3.67 Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino
0.736 4 My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard
0.735 3.72 The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías
0.734 3.96 The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
0.732 3.89 Flying Home: and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
0.731 4.13 European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
0.731 4.31 The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
0.725 4.08 Summa technologiae by Stanisław Lem
0.725 4.38 John Climacus : the ladder of divine ascent by John Climacus
0.723 4.32 The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
0.723 3.49 A Little Book of Language by David Crystal
0.722 4.29 An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
0.717 4.41 Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
0.715 3.38 Star by Yukio Mishima
0.715 4.13 Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.714 3.75 Into the War by Italo Calvino
0.706 3.78 Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald