Controversial Books for uvicpridelibrary

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
1.321 3.85 Back Where He Started: A Novel by Jay Quinn
1.086 3.93 Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
1.077 3.47 The Best Little Boy in the World by John Reid
1.065 4.04 Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
1.054 3.85 The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton
1.051 3.6 A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
1.036 3.62 The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality by Shere Hite
1.032 3.47 The Funny Thing Is... by Ellen DeGeneres
1.025 3.75 Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino
1.015 3.92 An Arrow's Flight: A Novel by Mark Merlis
1.013 3.83 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
1.01 3.79 Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
1.005 3.37 Blind Fall by Christopher Rice
0.999 3.55 Forgetting Elena by Edmund White
0.996 3.34 Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg
0.993 3.9 American Studies by Mark Merlis
0.991 3.87 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In by Roger Fisher
0.991 3.11 Babyji by Abha Dawesar
0.987 4.1 Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
0.983 3.55 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
0.979 3.78 Hero by Perry Moore
0.976 4.02 Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
0.971 3.86 Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories by Patrick Merla
0.962 3.86 The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan
0.959 3.99 Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
0.956 3.71 After Delores by Sarah Schulman
0.943 3.43 The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro
0.943 3.83 Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove
0.942 3.66 Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes by Guerrilla Girls
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
0.929 3.91 Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Other Trials from My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford
0.926 3.76 King and King by Linda de Haan
0.924 4.1 I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
0.922 4.05 Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein
0.922 3.97 Diaspora by Greg Egan
0.92 4.09 Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
0.915 3.77 The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
0.914 4.05 Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
0.913 4.02 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert
0.91 3.97 Afterlife by Paul Monette
0.909 4.15 The New Bottoming Book by Dossie Easton
0.902 3.2 Hello Darling, Are You Working? by Rupert Everett
0.899 3.96 Butch Is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
0.893 3.8 Dancer by Colum McCann
0.889 4.14 The Intersection of Law and Desire by J. M. Redmann
0.888 4.21 Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
0.884 3.67 The Last Time I Wore A Dress by Dylan Scholinski
0.877 3.87 Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
0.877 3.99 GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary by Joan Nestle
0.873 3.88 The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
0.872 4.17 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
0.865 3.85 Deaths of Jocasta by J. M. Redmann
0.862 3.88 As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto
0.86 3.98 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
0.854 3.96 Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot by Carol Queen
0.852 3.71 I Am a Woman by Ann Bannon
0.84 4.34 Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare
0.837 4.08 Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
0.834 4.07 Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
0.833 4.17 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
0.824 3.91 Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
0.821 3.92 Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.809 4.02 Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This
0.808 4.12 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
0.8 3.36 Bedrock by Lisa Alther
0.797 4.22 Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise by Paul Monette
0.792 3.86 Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
0.788 3.85 Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman
0.773 3.8 Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover
0.763 3.66 Mr Clive and Mr Page by Neil Bartlett
0.749 4.47 And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
0.742 4.01 Bi any other name by Loraine Hutchins
0.734 3.38 The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
0.727 4.42 And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
0.716 4.44 Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
0.705 3.95 Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
0.688 3.29 Gaudí Afternoon by Barbara Wilson
0.669 4.12 Death by the Riverside by J. M. Redmann
0.658 4.49 Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
0.651 3.79 The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser
0.628 3.81 In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Jack Halberstam
0.622 4.19 Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote