Controversial Books for Esse

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
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.021 3.74 Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
0.983 3.88 The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke
0.968 3.23 Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
0.936 3.84 Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
0.932 4.03 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.927 3.73 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
0.914 3.53 Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Tara Calishain
0.907 3.75 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
0.892 3.83 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
0.887 4.21 DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.859 3.92 Doghead by Morten Ramsland
0.855 3.76 The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki
0.853 3.59 Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
0.825 4.02 Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff
0.823 4.07 The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling