Controversial Books for HouseholdOpera

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
1.264 3.76 Flow Chart by John Ashbery
1.206 4.03 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.189 3.5 Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida
1.16 3.8 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.157 3.65 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
1.119 4.02 One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth
1.107 3.38 What Maisie Knew by Henry James
1.104 3.94 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1.091 3.54 The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.086 3.71 Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
1.085 3.59 The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
1.071 3.88 The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
1.054 3.84 Playing and Reality by D. W. Winnicott
1.045 3.95 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.044 3.57 The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
1.041 3.83 Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
1.031 3.86 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.018 3.92 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1.015 3.95 Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
1.012 3.95 The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson by Russell Edson
1.004 3.89 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1.003 4.02 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
1.003 4.06 Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
1.002 4.2 The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
1 3.92 Complete Works of the Gawain-Pearl Poet: Pearl; Purity (or Cleanness); Patience; Sir Gawain & the Green Knight; Saint Erkenwald by Casey Finch
0.994 3.68 The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
0.994 4.04 Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
0.994 4.11 The Complete Book of Knitting by Barbara Abbey
0.994 3.98 Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia by Patience Gray
0.991 3.47 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
0.99 3.8 Complete Poems by Marianne Moore
0.989 3.89 One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
0.989 3.79 The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
0.988 3.7 Hamburger Lesehefte : Sophokles : Antigone by Sophocles
0.987 4 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
0.986 3.84 Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
0.974 3.97 Wise Children by Angela Carter
0.973 3.97 Mélusine by Sarah Monette
0.971 3.86 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
0.971 3.68 Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
0.969 3.68 Contemporary American Poetry by A. Poulin
0.965 3.43 Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu
0.963 3.66 Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
0.963 4.13 Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor
0.963 3.98 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.961 4.05 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
0.96 4.28 The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
0.959 4.11 The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 4.06 Collected Poems by James Merrill
0.955 3.93 The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove
0.953 4.18 All the Greek Verbs by N. Marinone
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.952 3.95 Magritte by Jacques Meuris
0.952 3.79 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
0.951 3.49 NW by Zadie Smith
0.95 4.29 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Herbert A. Wise
0.949 3.85 Dream Of The Unified Field by Jorie Graham
0.948 4.13 The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
0.943 3.76 Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl
0.943 3.91 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.942 4.07 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
0.941 3.83 Dracula [Norton Critical Edition] by Bram Stoker
0.94 4.19 The Complete English Poems by George Herbert
0.939 3.75 Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.938 4.15 Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.937 4.16 The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell
0.936 4.29 Playing Shakespeare by John Barton
0.926 3.86 Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
0.921 3.71 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
0.919 3.66 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
0.917 3.83 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
0.916 3.88 The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
0.916 4.14 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
0.914 3.8 Library Research Models: A Guide to Classification, Cataloging, and Computers by Thomas Mann
0.914 3.91 Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
0.912 3.96 Among Others by Jo Walton
0.912 4.09 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
0.912 3.94 Maurice by E. M. Forster
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.909 4.13 Indelible Alison Bechdel by Alison Bechdel
0.907 4.07 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
0.907 4.18 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
0.906 4.2 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
0.904 4.03 Regeneration by Pat Barker
0.904 4.13 Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.904 4.09 Epodes and Odes by Horace
0.901 3.88 The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
0.899 3.81 The Book History Reader by David Finkelstein
0.899 4.26 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
0.899 3.94 The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
0.898 4.05 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
0.898 4.01 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.898 3.92 Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
0.898 3.69 High Spirits by Robertson Davies
0.897 3.82 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
0.897 4 Ubik by Philip K. Dick
0.896 3.9 The Norton Book of Classical Literature by Bernard Knox
0.896 3.8 The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
0.896 4.3 Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
0.896 4.05 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.896 4.26 William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
0.895 4.17 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
0.894 4.04 The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1B by George M. Logan
0.894 4.01 Hild by Nicola Griffith
0.893 3.97 The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem
0.893 4.05 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
0.891 4.27 The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
0.891 4.14 A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
0.89 3.99 The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
0.89 3.59 The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
0.889 3.82 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
0.889 4.04 The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
0.888 4.24 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
0.888 4.15 Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse by John Hollander
0.888 4.01 The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
0.887 3.79 The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek
0.886 4.15 Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
0.886 4.05 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.885 3.91 Heroides [in translation] by Publius Ovidius Naso
0.883 4.08 The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] by Geoffrey Chaucer
0.882 4.15 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
0.881 3.87 The Master by Colm Tóibín
0.881 4 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
0.878 3.81 Stitch 'n Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller
0.877 4.1 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
0.877 4.09 Ariel by Sylvia Plath
0.876 3.98 Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
0.875 4.1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.875 4.22 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.875 3.27 Oroonoko and Other Writings by Aphra Behn
0.874 4.18 The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
0.873 3.98 Howards End by E. M. Forster
0.873 4.23 Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories [Oxford World Classics] by M. R. James
0.872 4.11 Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens
0.871 3.82 Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
0.87 4.04 Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.868 3.98 Decreation by Anne Carson
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 4.33 Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson
0.866 4.04 Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.86 4.34 Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
0.86 4.22 The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
0.86 3.99 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
0.859 3.97 The Poems of Catullus by Catullus
0.858 4.01 The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo
0.856 3.97 Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
0.853 3.42 Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson
0.853 4.05 The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
0.853 4.32 La Technique: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking by Jacques Pepin
0.853 3.91 Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
0.852 3.84 The New College Latin & English Dictionary by John Traupman
0.852 3.93 A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
0.851 4.07 The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
0.851 4.08 Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
0.85 4.05 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
0.85 4.1 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
0.85 4.21 A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
0.849 4.11 Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell by Charles Simic
0.849 4.2 Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.846 4.01 The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey
0.846 4.32 Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
0.845 3.84 A Certain World: A Commonplace Book by W. H. Auden
0.843 3.78 The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
0.843 3.96 The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn
0.843 4.34 The complete poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
0.842 4.4 Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné
0.838 4.38 Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
0.838 4.06 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
0.838 4.06 Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood
0.837 3.87 Small World by David Lodge
0.836 4.27 Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
0.836 4.09 A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
0.836 3.66 Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
0.836 4.17 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
0.836 4.16 The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text by Alexander Pope
0.836 4.07 What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
0.833 4.18 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
0.833 3.91 Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
0.832 4.06 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
0.831 4.42 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
0.828 3.85 Lonely Planet : Britain [5th edition] by David Else
0.828 3.96 A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies
0.827 4.07 Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
0.827 3.98 The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
0.823 4.13 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
0.823 3.91 The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin
0.821 4.33 The Complete English Poems by John Donne
0.821 3.89 Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
0.821 4.22 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
0.821 4.13 The Grey King by Susan Cooper
0.821 3.48 The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton
0.821 4.12 Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors by Frederic M. Wheelock
0.82 4.1 Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
0.82 4.12 The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
0.82 3.73 Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
0.819 4.1 Donald and the... by Peter F. Neumeyer
0.817 4.02 The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
0.816 4.36 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
0.816 4.13 Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
0.815 4.12 The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th Edition, Volume 1 by M. H. Abrams
0.815 4.37 Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes by Elizabeth Zimmermann
0.814 4.09 Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
0.813 4.01 Winnie Ille Pu by A. A. Milne
0.813 4.29 Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
0.811 4.08 Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.809 4.15 How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book by Esther K. Smith
0.808 4.26 A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell
0.805 4.11 Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
0.805 4.31 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann VanderMeer
0.803 4.27 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
0.801 4.01 The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10) by Lucien Febvre
0.801 4.25 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
0.8 3.88 Midwinter Nightingale by Joan Aiken
0.8 4.34 The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
0.798 3.9 The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
0.797 4.09 Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking by Julie Sahni
0.797 4.12 Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
0.795 4.06 The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: The Magicians of Caprona / Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
0.793 4.36 Complete Poems by C.P. Cavafy
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.793 4.37 The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
0.792 4.27 Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel by Alison Bechdel
0.792 4.15 The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson
0.788 4.03 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P. G. Wodehouse
0.788 4.47 An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell
0.787 4.11 Clarissa Oakes by Patrick O'Brian
0.786 4.1 The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
0.786 3.82 The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories by Tom Shippey
0.785 4.35 The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
0.785 4.09 The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
0.784 4.03 Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
0.784 4.36 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.783 3.95 The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
0.782 4.22 Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
0.78 4.34 Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
0.78 4.14 The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian
0.779 4.46 Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
0.776 4.35 Edna St. Vincent Millay: Collected Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay
0.774 4.36 The collected poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
0.773 4.37 The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff
0.773 4.3 ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter
0.771 4.17 Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.767 4.43 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
0.762 4.1 The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian
0.76 4.13 The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
0.758 4.18 Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
0.757 3.9 The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson by E. F. Benson
0.754 3.87 Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies
0.75 4.42 A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges
0.748 4.28 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
0.748 4.39 All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking by Molly Stevens
0.748 4.08 Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
0.748 4.14 The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
0.747 4.4 Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmermann
0.747 4.15 The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
0.746 4.2 The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian
0.746 4.18 The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
0.746 4.46 Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth
0.745 4.27 Poems by Wallace Stevens
0.743 4.27 Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney
0.742 4.19 The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
0.74 4.03 Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
0.74 4.34 The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child
0.739 4.36 Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey
0.737 4.18 Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
0.737 4.18 The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
0.736 4.38 Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey
0.735 4.48 Charts for Colour Knitting a Designer's Source Book From the Personal Collection of Alice Starmore by Alice Starmore
0.733 4.28 The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
0.731 4.14 European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
0.731 4.24 View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska
0.731 4.31 The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
0.729 4.2 Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse
0.726 4.19 The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
0.725 4.13 The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
0.724 4.28 If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
0.723 4.6 The Iliad, Books 13-24 by Homer
0.722 4.29 H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
0.716 4 Marginalia by H.J. Jackson
0.715 4.23 The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
0.709 4.45 Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
0.707 4.3 Sweater Workshop by Jacqueline Fee
0.706 4.51 The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
0.706 4.18 Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
0.703 3.95 The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.693 4.44 John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose by John Milton
0.69 4.29 Greek: An Intensive Course by Hardy Hansen
0.688 4.66 Knitting Lace: A Workshop with Patterns and Projects (Threads Books) by Susanna E. Lewis
0.688 4.42 The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.675 4.26 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse
0.675 4.35 The Kingdom Under the Sea and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
0.674 4.19 On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart
0.659 4.58 Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.658 4.34 The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
0.648 4.55 Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting by Alice Starmore
0.634 3.5 Bantam New College French/English Dictionary by Roger Steiner
0.621 4.22 The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
0.608 4.23 The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
0.607 4.33 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
0.602 4.17 Brave New Knits: 26 Projects and Personalities from the Knitting Blogosphere by Julie Turjoman
0.598 4.2 Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
0.58 3.78 Where Shall I Wander: New Poems by John Ashbery
0.544 4.72 A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
0.535 4.81 The Oxford English Dictionary by E. S. C. Weiner
0.501 4.67 The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower