Controversial Books for FrederickDouglass

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
1.349 3.42 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes
1.185 3.67 The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1.153 2.81 Les confessions, Tome 1 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.118 4.19 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
1.104 3.88 The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
1.1 3.39 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.096 3.22 Paul and Virginia by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1.083 3.75 Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
1.076 3.13 Vathek by William Beckford
1.069 3.62 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.054 3.68 Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
1.024 3.65 Romola by George Eliot
1.021 3.47 Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
1.018 3.26 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: Drawn From Things Heard & Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg
1.011 3.76 Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
0.998 3.49 The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
0.998 3.55 Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
0.996 3.88 Don Juan by Lord Byron
0.982 3.34 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.96 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
0.953 3.39 The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.932 4.02 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
0.923 3.57 Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
0.92 3.47 Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
0.915 3.29 Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
0.914 3.71 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble
0.908 4.29 John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
0.907 4.17 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
0.903 4.26 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
0.902 3.84 Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.893 4.09 The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
0.889 4.29 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
0.883 4.09 The Library of World Poetry by William Cullen Bryant
0.875 3.48 Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
0.875 3.36 The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
0.869 3.81 The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
0.869 4.06 Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
0.869 4.06 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
0.855 3.65 American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
0.853 4.35 My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
0.848 3.9 Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments by Alexander Cruden
0.832 4.32 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
0.82 4.45 The Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers
0.797 4.35 The Journal of George Fox by George Fox
0.796 3.81 Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
0.758 3.92 The Complete Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
0.754 4.22 Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
0.748 4.27 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare