Controversial Books for Catsunshine36

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
1.152 3.66 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
1.151 3.83 Do the Windows Open? by Julie Hecht
1.139 3.68 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
1.114 3.81 The Healing Code: 6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Your Health, Success, or Relationship Issue by Alexander Loyd
1.102 3.37 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
1.091 3.76 Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza
1.087 3.89 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
1.066 3.63 The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
1.057 3.48 Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
1.048 3.95 Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.039 3.62 Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
1.037 3.81 Co-dependent No More by Melody Beattie
1.03 3.8 Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life by Alan Deutschman
1.03 4.13 An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
1.026 4.07 Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel by Lynda Barry
1.021 3.76 Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Katha Pollitt
1.019 3.99 Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
1.015 3.89 The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
1.014 3.05 The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
1.009 3.31 Our Kind by Kate Walbert
1.003 3.81 The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
0.999 3.53 Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
0.999 3.81 Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
0.992 3.58 The Idiot by Elif Batuman
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.988 3.41 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
0.985 3.99 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
0.984 3.83 Grendel by John Gardner
0.977 3.78 The Sellout by Paul Beatty
0.972 3.74 It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories by James Lasdun
0.969 3.88 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.966 3.55 Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
0.955 3.49 Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
0.953 3.2 I Quit Sugar: Your Complete 8-Week Detox Program and Cookbook by Sarah Wilson
0.95 3.82 In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
0.949 3.85 Embers by Sándor Márai
0.948 4.02 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
0.944 3.93 The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
0.942 3.81 Black Hole by Charles Burns
0.939 3.16 Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
0.938 3.73 Self-Consciousness by John Updike
0.937 3.86 The New Yorker stories by Ann Beattie
0.937 3.9 Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.928 3.71 The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
0.927 3.66 Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
0.927 4.06 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
0.926 3.84 The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
0.925 4.03 A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
0.924 3.72 Frost by Thomas Bernhard
0.923 3.71 Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
0.922 3.65 The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
0.922 3.85 Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
0.915 3.34 A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion: A Novel by Ron Hansen
0.913 3.42 The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
0.913 3.74 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.908 3.7 Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
0.907 3.79 The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
0.9 3.56 History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
0.894 3.55 Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
0.894 3.6 Caleb Williams by William Godwin
0.891 4.19 A Season in Hell / The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
0.887 4.12 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.887 4.17 Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike
0.881 3.57 The Witch Elm by Tana French
0.881 3.66 The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
0.874 3.92 Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
0.867 4.17 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
0.864 4.1 A Clockwork Orange [Norton Critical Edition] by Anthony Burgess
0.863 3.65 A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
0.863 3.69 Suspect by Michael Robotham
0.861 3.74 Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams
0.855 3.85 A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
0.854 3.9 The Photography Book by Phaidon Press
0.845 3.97 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
0.842 3.54 American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
0.835 3.86 If it Bleeds by Stephen King
0.835 3.61 The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
0.834 4.3 The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature by Loren Eiseley
0.833 4.35 Stories by Anton Chekhov
0.83 4.18 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
0.824 3.82 Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
0.822 4.18 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
0.818 3.15 Memoirs of a Muse: A Novel by Lara Vapnyar
0.812 4.11 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
0.812 3.9 Scars Of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols
0.809 4.25 Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
0.805 4.35 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
0.801 4.14 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
0.801 3.97 The Polaroid Book by Barbara Hitchcock
0.795 3.72 Turbulence by David Szalay
0.795 4.01 Still Me by Jojo Moyes
0.788 3.81 Natasha: And Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
0.788 3.63 Trespass by Valerie Martin
0.786 3.34 Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis
0.785 3.58 VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good by Mark Bittman
0.783 4.1 The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike
0.778 3.89 Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
0.761 3.59 All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
0.758 4 Photo Icons II, 1928-1991: The Story Behind the Pictures (Icons) by Hans-Michael Koetzle
0.755 3.39 Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe
0.75 3.75 The Best American Essays 2007 by David Foster Wallace
0.738 3.4 Love Me Back: A Novel by Merritt Tierce
0.718 4.41 The Way It Is by William Stafford
0.715 4.15 The Journal of Eugène Delacroix by Eugène Delacroix
0.668 3.9 Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.) by Lydia Peelle
0.605 3.62 The Great Divorce by Valerie Martin
0.579 4.19 Gryphon: New and Selected Stories by Charles Baxter