Controversial Books for FidaH

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
1.324 3.57 I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
1.166 4.03 Fateful Triangle : The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
1.126 3.57 Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
1.086 4.08 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
1.078 3.75 Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.054 3.85 The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton
1.043 3.5 Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
1.036 3.04 Yeats Is Dead! by Joseph O'Connor
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.024 3.66 Romola by George Eliot
1.021 3.39 Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
1.017 3.43 Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.65 The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
1.012 3.87 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
1.004 3.55 A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
1.001 3.66 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
1 4.12 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
1 3.62 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.995 3.78 Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.993 3.58 A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
0.988 4.17 Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly
0.985 4.02 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
0.982 4.03 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
0.981 3.19 This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.975 3.91 Orientalism by Edward W. Said
0.972 3.73 Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
0.971 3.74 The Power by Naomi Alderman
0.968 3.23 Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
0.968 3.64 Love by Toni Morrison
0.964 3.62 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.956 4.04 Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
0.955 3.52 The First Bad Man by Miranda July
0.951 3.72 Normal People by Sally Rooney
0.95 3.9 No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein
0.95 3.76 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
0.946 3.82 Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
0.945 3.52 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
0.945 3.65 Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
0.941 3.78 The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
0.938 3.84 Sula by Toni Morrison
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.934 3.92 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
0.934 4.08 Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin
0.933 3.38 Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
0.929 3.64 The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana Enríquez
0.929 4.08 Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
0.928 4.07 Blindness by José Saramago
0.925 3.75 Shame by Salman Rushdie
0.922 3.74 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
0.92 3.85 Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society's Most Arbitrary Folly by Kate Millett
0.919 3.88 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
0.919 4.57 Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.913 3.43 Foe by J. M. Coetzee
0.912 3.84 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
0.912 4.11 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
0.911 3.7 My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
0.91 4.02 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
0.908 3.91 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
0.907 3.88 Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
0.905 4.16 The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.9 4.14 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
0.9 4.21 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
0.899 3.89 Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.898 3.96 Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.897 4.15 Sarah Kane: Complete Plays by Sarah Kane
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
0.894 4.12 Another Country by James Baldwin
0.893 4.16 The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
0.888 3.91 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.885 3.99 Complete Poems by D. H. Lawrence
0.884 3.55 Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
0.883 3.68 Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
0.881 4 On Photography by Susan Sontag
0.867 4.06 Midnight In Sicily by Peter Robb
0.864 3.99 Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
0.86 3.72 A Taste of Honey: A Play by Shelagh Delaney
0.856 3.64 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek
0.856 3.8 The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
0.845 3.91 The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
0.844 4.2 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
0.839 4.07 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
0.839 3.72 The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
0.826 4.07 Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
0.821 3.78 Burmese Days by George Orwell
0.816 4.34 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
0.816 3.71 Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman
0.813 3.83 Home by Toni Morrison
0.813 3.74 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
0.812 4.05 A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
0.807 4.12 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
0.806 4.24 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
0.803 3.96 Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
0.798 4.15 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.796 4.18 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
0.795 3.98 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
0.794 3.83 Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
0.794 4.02 Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher
0.786 4.09 Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
0.783 4.08 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
0.777 3.84 Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
0.777 4.31 Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
0.775 4.27 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
0.774 3.6 The Best American Short Stories 2006 by Ann Patchett
0.767 3.8 Kallocain by Karin Boye
0.766 4.04 Spring by Ali Smith
0.766 4.03 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
0.761 4.16 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.758 4.27 Persepolis, Book 1 by Marjane Satrapi
0.755 4.36 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
0.753 4.3 Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
0.752 4.3 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
0.751 3.85 Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
0.745 4.2 The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.741 4.2 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
0.736 3.4 On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
0.735 4.4 Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
0.722 4.19 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
0.716 4.24 The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
0.711 4.31 Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
0.699 4.31 Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
0.68 4.43 In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
0.634 4.14 And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
0.58 4.6 James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays by James Baldwin