Controversial Books for 1proudcloud

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
1.518 3.68 The Urantia Book by Urantia Foundation
1.251 3.14 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure
1.174 3.4 Beauty's Punishment by A. N. Roquelaure
1.123 3.66 This Book Will Change Your Life by Benrik
1.118 3.77 Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living by Amy Vanderbilt
1.047 3.54 Journals by Kurt Cobain
1.037 3.96 Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy Masoff
1.027 3.52 A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
1.021 3.78 I Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
1.02 3.62 Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting by Michelle Dresbold
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.007 3.8 Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling by C. Scott Littleton
0.986 3.55 The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
0.981 3.5 Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
0.978 3.1 The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley
0.976 3.82 The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
0.959 3.66 Book of lists : subversive facts and hidden information in rapid-fire format by Russ Kick
0.953 4.32 Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People by Michael F. Page
0.952 3.35 Forbidden knowledge: from Prometheus to pornography by Roger Shattuck
0.95 4.48 Madeleine Vionnet by Betty Kirke
0.949 2.83 The New Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
0.949 3.7 The 100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell
0.944 3.96 Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
0.94 4.14 My Secret: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
0.936 3.68 Under the Black Ensign (Stories from the Golden Age) by L. Ron Hubbard
0.935 3.81 The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky
0.926 3.71 The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester
0.924 3.78 The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
0.914 3.59 The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
0.908 3.8 Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
0.899 3.83 Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
0.898 3.56 The X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volume One by Jane Goldman
0.898 3.16 Cold Allies by Patricia Anthony
0.898 3.94 Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
0.896 3.83 The 1920s (Decades of the 20th Century) by Nick Yapp
0.887 4.3 The Reader’s Encyclopedia by William Rose Benét
0.885 4.06 Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
0.88 4.18 The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Harold Bloom
0.879 3.84 Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross
0.871 3.91 The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan
0.86 3.09 Gremlins by George Gipe
0.859 3.92 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
0.848 3.74 Cobain by Rolling Stone Press
0.848 3.71 1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter
0.845 3.51 The Periodic Kingdom : A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements by P. W. Atkins
0.844 4.14 PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God by Frank Warren
0.839 3.68 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
0.832 4.27 The Sandman: King of Dreams by Alisa Kwitney
0.828 3.81 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
0.827 3.76 Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
0.826 3.54 The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits by Erik Sass
0.823 3.89 Bluebeard: a novel by Kurt Vonnegut
0.82 3.98 Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati
0.818 4.07 The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
0.816 3.07 Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony
0.81 3.42 Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
0.802 4.27 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
0.794 4.33 A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
0.791 4.04 The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years by John Douglas Eames
0.791 3.76 Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again by Will Pearson
0.774 3.65 The 1940s (Decades of the 20th Century) by Nick Yapp
0.762 3.74 From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell
0.704 4.12 The collected drawings of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
0.657 4.33 Cobain unseen by Charles R. Cross
0.63 4.07 Triumph of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams