Controversial Books for Dori

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
1.22 3.22 Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 by Jeff Sypeck
1.035 3.11 J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings by Michael Coren
0.968 3.62 The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.91 4.17 The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
0.891 4.11 Metamorphoses [in translation] by Ovid
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.864 3.62 Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World by Paul Cartledge
0.862 3.89 Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome by John Gibson Warry
0.861 3.79 Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus by Philip Matyszak
0.848 3.89 History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] by Titus Livy
0.822 4.13 The Histories by Herodotus
0.817 4.11 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.814 4.01 Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
0.812 3.42 The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge
0.81 4.37 The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
0.782 3.75 The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy
0.777 4.07 The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
0.775 3.87 Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
0.762 4.24 Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski
0.749 3.73 Posthomerica by Quintus
0.713 4.07 The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
0.708 4.04 Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
0.698 3.49 Tolkien: A Biography by Michael White
0.687 4 An Illustrated History of the First World War by John Keegan
0.643 4.52 From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books by Edward O. Wilson