Controversial Books for KerriSullivan

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
1.222 3.73 Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name by Vicki Hearne
1.164 3.96 Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin
1.099 3.69 Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
1.062 3.73 The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
1.059 3.66 A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
1.01 4.18 The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte" by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini
1.001 3.93 The White Goddess by Robert Graves
1 3.31 Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
0.994 4.07 Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
0.991 3.83 The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
0.991 3.43 The Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula Goodenough
0.988 3.38 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
0.976 3.8 The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
0.971 4.04 Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.947 3.94 The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
0.943 4.06 The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
0.94 3.96 The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer
0.94 4.32 The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
0.938 3.78 The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jean Gimpel
0.938 3.84 Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
0.933 4.34 Persuasion: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen
0.924 3.93 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
0.916 3.64 The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels
0.914 3.92 Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
0.91 4.03 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
0.909 3.87 The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
0.903 3.97 Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters
0.903 4.15 Mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature by Erich Auerbach
0.894 4.24 Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
0.888 3.9 Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters
0.88 3.91 Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
0.88 3.52 Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
0.878 3.66 The Primary Colors: Three Essays by Alexander Theroux
0.876 4.25 Monet a Retrospective by Charles Stuckey
0.873 4.14 The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
0.861 3.88 Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
0.861 3.88 Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
0.86 3.87 The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
0.86 3.82 At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
0.859 3.93 The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt
0.851 4.2 A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
0.85 4.02 The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant
0.848 4.05 Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
0.84 4.15 He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
0.838 3.79 Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson
0.838 3.95 D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics) by D. H. Lawrence
0.837 4.1 Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball
0.833 4.06 The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
0.828 3.7 Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
0.825 3.85 The Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters
0.82 4.14 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.819 4.15 Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium by Elizabeth Peters
0.816 3.89 The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
0.815 4.18 The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
0.814 3.97 Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
0.809 4.24 The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson
0.809 4.02 The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
0.803 3.74 Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) by Joyce A. Tyldesley
0.797 4.2 Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye
0.793 4.09 A Dyer's Garden: From Plant to Pot Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers by Rita Buchanan
0.793 4.21 The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
0.791 3.77 The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
0.791 4.15 America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
0.789 4.05 The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
0.789 4.1 The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
0.789 4.19 Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
0.784 4.51 The Iliad, Books 1-12 by Homer
0.782 3.67 Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies
0.771 4.13 The Unknown Matisse by Hilary Spurling
0.761 4.27 The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
0.754 4.07 A Gardener's Alphabet by Mary Azarian
0.746 4.46 Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth
0.743 4.19 Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
0.737 4.21 Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille
0.737 4.03 Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
0.733 3.99 Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
0.723 4.6 The Iliad, Books 13-24 by Homer
0.716 4.41 Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
0.675 4.54 Masterpieces of Illumination: The World's Most Famous Manuscripts 400 to 1600 by Ingo F. Walther
0.665 3.9 Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
0.66 4.64 Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen
0.659 4.1 Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
0.63 4.45 A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect by R. J. Cunliffe
0.612 4.48 Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman
0.602 4.23 Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism by Daniel Wildenstein
0.59 4.27 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Russell Ash
0.571 4.12 The Prospect before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe by Olwen Hufton
0.561 4.53 Prehistoric Textiles by E.J.W. Barber
0.556 4.55 The Odyssey, Books 13-24 by Homer