Controversial Books for JimGrisham

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
1.23 3.05 Violin by Anne Rice
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.136 3.51 Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
1.129 3.27 Don't Kiss Them Good-bye by Allison DuBois
1.128 3.54 The Blind Mirror by Christopher Pike
1.115 3.65 Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem by Matthew McKay
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.085 3.55 Jemima J by Jane Green
1.076 3.9 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
1.051 4.12 Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
1.051 3.98 Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
1.049 3.53 The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
1.048 3.86 Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 by Anaïs Nin
1.047 3.84 Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'Connor
1.034 3.69 Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy
1.033 3.87 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1.029 3.49 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
1.027 3.06 Cranberry Queen by Kathleen DeMarco
1.027 3.81 The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer
1.021 3.06 Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
1.016 3.58 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
1.01 3.61 Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
1.006 3.77 The Highly Sensitive Person. How to thrive when the world overwhelms you by Elaine N. Aron
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1.004 3.72 It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
1 4.12 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
0.994 2.9 Dreamer's Dictionary by Stearn Robinson
0.987 3.71 Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives by Tom Shroder
0.978 3.86 No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
0.963 3.97 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
0.962 3.44 Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death by James Van Praagh
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.949 3.61 Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger
0.947 3.8 Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.943 3.9 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.942 3.56 The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
0.937 3.69 A Widow for One Year by John Irving
0.936 3.82 Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
0.935 3.91 Ireland by Frank Delaney
0.929 4.11 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
0.928 3.94 The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.927 3.45 Fire by Sebastian Junger
0.923 3.92 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Barnes & Noble Classics] by Franz Kafka
0.921 3.46 Bookends by Jane Green
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.915 4 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
0.904 4.03 Regeneration by Pat Barker
0.887 4.12 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.871 3.98 Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
0.841 3.89 The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
0.834 3.92 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
0.833 3.92 Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by Dr. Bob Rotella
0.826 3.76 Beach Girls by Luanne Rice
0.824 3.82 Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
0.814 2.87 Trading Spaces Behind the Scenes: Including Decorating Tips and Tricks by Brian Kramer
0.812 4.16 The American Heritage College Dictionary by American Heritage
0.805 3.49 The Patriots Club by Christopher Reich
0.796 3.8 Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
0.76 4.09 Gilded Needles by Michael McDowell
0.717 4.45 The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde