Controversial Books for MrMumpie

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
1.409 2.73 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
1.309 3.49 Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
1.24 3.39 Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
1.239 3.7 The Way to Freedom: Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism by Dalai Lama XIV
1.237 4.06 George Washington : Writings by George Washington
1.233 3.37 Sanskrit: A Complete Course for Beginners by Michael Coulson
1.222 2.88 Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
1.22 3.85 Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America) by Alexis de Tocqueville
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.207 3.83 Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light - The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa
1.2 3.58 The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
1.194 3.56 The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs
1.184 2.93 Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
1.18 3.15 A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
1.174 3.73 Yoga Mind And Body (DK Living) by England) Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre (London
1.172 3.67 Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
1.171 3.75 A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
1.169 3.77 Bhagavad-Gītā as It Is by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
1.167 3.85 Contemporary Political Philosophy by Will Kymlicka
1.167 3.92 A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
1.163 3.72 The Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
1.161 3.85 For Marx by Louis Althusser
1.159 3.82 The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson
1.158 3.57 The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
1.154 3.82 Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin
1.152 3.5 Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
1.144 3.01 The Geeks' Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People by Garth Sundem
1.142 3.01 Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman
1.14 3.54 The Complete Kama Sutra by Alain Daniélou
1.131 3.65 Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. Young
1.13 3.36 Atlas of World History by Kate Santon
1.127 3.82 The Teaching of Buddha by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
1.126 3.24 Japanese Phrasebook by Yoshi Abe
1.125 3.78 The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English by Septuagint
1.122 3.96 Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart by E. Kadloubovsky
1.122 3.8 Robert's Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
1.118 3.26 Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
1.111 3.93 Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel by Thomas Keating
1.106 3.83 For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin
1.105 4.23 The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness by John Yates
1.104 3.78 Political Liberalism by John Rawls
1.098 4.22 Catechism of the Catholic Church by US Conference of Catholic Bishops
1.098 3.2 Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young
1.098 3.23 The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
1.096 3.09 The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
1.094 4.16 Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas
1.094 3.35 The Law of Peoples - with "the Idea of Public" by John Rawls
1.094 4 The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II (The Information Age) 2nd Edition by Manuel Castells
1.093 3.89 The Qur'an (Abdel Haleem) by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
1.093 3.61 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
1.092 3.94 The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
1.092 3.37 Soul Stories by Gary Zukav
1.09 4.11 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production by Karl Marx
1.085 3.93 Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
1.085 4.12 The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha by Bruce M. Metzger
1.084 3.5 Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.083 3.8 Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.081 3.77 The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by Teresa de Ávila
1.08 3.56 Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac
1.079 4.01 The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success by Rodney Stark
1.078 3.42 Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Minogue
1.077 3.84 The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean-François Revel
1.076 3.9 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns
1.075 3.57 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
1.075 3.68 The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language by John H. McWhorter
1.074 3.71 On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
1.069 3.07 The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient by Sheridan Prasso
1.068 4.08 The Gnostic Bible by Willis Barnstone
1.068 3.83 Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra by Vimalakirti
1.067 3.63 Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
1.065 4.08 The Homeric Hymns and Homerica by Hesiod
1.065 3.43 Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
1.064 3.84 We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
1.064 3.66 The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.063 3.86 The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew
1.06 3.95 City of God by Saint Augustine
1.059 3.95 The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia by David Crystal
1.058 3.55 Monkey: A Journey to the West by David Kherdian
1.058 3.49 Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter
1.056 3.7 Freedom from Fear and Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
1.055 3.61 Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
1.053 3.65 The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence
1.052 3.64 Pancatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom by Vishnu Sharma
1.052 3.34 Microeconomics by Robert S. Pindyck
1.051 3.65 A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
1.05 3.77 What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
1.049 3.95 Theological-Political Treatise by Benedictus de Spinoza
1.049 3 The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
1.049 3.94 Style Guide by The Economist
1.046 3.44 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
1.046 3.57 The Elements: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball
1.045 3.44 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
1.045 4.08 After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
1.045 3.94 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.044 3.69 Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works by Anselm of Canterbury
1.044 3.63 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
1.043 3.63 The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
1.042 3.48 The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
1.041 3.83 Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
1.04 3.73 The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
1.038 4.02 The Muqaddimah, an Introduction to History [abridged Rosenthal translation] by Ibn Khaldūn
1.038 3.65 The Art of Always Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer
1.037 3.88 Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline
1.037 3.89 Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
1.037 3.76 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.036 4.1 Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
1.035 3.5 Freud: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
1.035 3.72 The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature by Noam Chomsky
1.033 4.07 Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson
1.033 3.77 Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual by Rick Sternbach
1.032 3.99 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
1.032 3.97 The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
1.031 4.28 Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America) by Frederick Douglass
1.031 3.81 How to See Yourself As You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
1.031 3.79 Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches by John W. Cresswell
1.029 3.58 The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James E. Lovelock
1.029 3.84 Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze
1.027 3.66 The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright
1.027 3.88 The Sufis by Idries Shah
1.026 3.93 The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
1.026 3.71 The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird
1.026 3.89 Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile by John Shelby Spong
1.025 4.06 Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
1.024 4.11 The Way of Perfection by Teresa de Ávila
1.023 3.78 Goodnight Darth Vader by Jeffrey Brown
1.022 3.96 The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Padmasambhava
1.02 3.94 One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein
1.02 3.81 The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said
1.02 3.89 The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation by William Hart
1.019 3.95 Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
1.019 4.09 Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann
1.018 3.26 Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: Drawn From Things Heard & Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg
1.018 3.56 Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma by Brad Warner
1.018 3.13 Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
1.017 3.84 On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.016 3.6 The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.016 3.68 Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
1.015 3.37 The Iraq Study Group Report by The Iraq Study Group
1.015 3.62 Isms: Understanding Art by Stephen Little
1.015 3.96 Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa
1.015 3.85 World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
1.015 3.89 The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday by Stan Berenstain
1.013 3.38 The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity by John McManners
1.012 3.61 Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
1.012 3.83 The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B. R. Myers
1.01 4.06 The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
1.01 4.04 Advice on Dying: And Living a Better Life by Dalai Lama XIV
1.01 3.95 The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault
1.01 4 The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
1.01 3.54 Basic Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.008 3.78 God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
1.008 3.9 On Christian Teaching by Saint Augustine
1.007 3.46 Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander
1.007 3.84 The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx
1.005 3.79 The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
1.005 3.53 The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1.005 4 J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Stuart Mill
1.005 3.19 Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
1.004 3.39 Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
1.004 3.88 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
1.003 4.07 Tower of Babel : The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
1.003 3.54 Baudolino by Umberto Eco
1.002 3.9 The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
1.001 3.86 The Republic by Plato
1 3.85 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
1 3.92 Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
1 3.79 Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
1 3.56 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.999 3.62 A Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold J. Toynbee
0.999 3.81 On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
0.999 3.72 At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition by H. P. Lovecraft
0.998 3.33 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
0.998 3.57 Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History by William Ryan
0.998 3.94 A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
0.998 3.54 The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
0.997 3.67 Politics by Aristotle
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.996 3.76 The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
0.995 3.47 The Gospel of Judas by Judas Gospel Author
0.995 3.98 Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircéa Eliade
0.993 3.89 The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
0.993 3.79 Did Jesus Exist? by Bart D. Ehrman
0.993 3.45 The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World by Adam Jacot de Boinod
0.993 3.42 Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
0.993 3.73 The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair
0.992 3.56 Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.991 3.56 The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It by Nicholas Awde
0.991 3.86 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In by Roger Fisher
0.99 3.97 Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison
0.99 3.64 The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
0.99 3.66 St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (Norton Critical Edition) by Thomas Aquinas
0.99 3.98 Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.988 3.95 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
0.988 4.11 The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.987 4.16 The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm
0.987 3.85 The Rule of St. Benedict by Saint Benedict
0.987 3.9 The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik
0.986 3.57 Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.986 3.62 The Brain: A Very Short Introduction by Michael O'Shea
0.986 3.47 Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose
0.986 3.83 Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short
0.986 3.9 Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye by Brad Warner
0.985 4.01 A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
0.985 3.77 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
0.984 3.72 The Ugly American by William J. Lederer
0.984 3.95 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.982 3.96 The Upanishads by Anonymous
0.981 3.9 Trees by Allen J. Coombes
0.98 3.62 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World by Haemin Sunim
0.98 3.46 Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
0.98 3.73 The Analects by Confucius
0.98 4.35 The Message of the Qur'an (Asad, 1980) by Muhammad Asad
0.98 3.32 The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide (Star Trek: The Klingon Book of Virtues) by Marc Okrand
0.979 3.18 Praying the Psalms by Thomas Merton
0.979 3.68 Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Nitobe Inazō
0.979 3.9 The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
0.978 4.04 Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3) by Michel Foucault
0.978 3.78 The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
0.977 3.9 Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
0.976 4 The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (Compass) by Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka
0.975 3.9 Orientalism by Edward W. Said
0.975 4.09 The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition by F. A. Hayek
0.975 3.8 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.975 3.41 Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction by James Fulcher
0.974 3.15 Star Trek: The Motion Picture [novelization] by Gene Roddenberry
0.974 3.4 Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
0.974 3.67 Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James E. Lovelock
0.973 4.13 Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
0.971 3.73 How to Practice : The Way to a Meaningful Life by Dalai Lama XIV
0.971 3.79 The Art of Happiness at Work by The Dalai Lama
0.971 3.76 The Power by Naomi Alderman
0.971 3.79 The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
0.97 3.43 Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Butler
0.97 3.95 Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
0.97 3.73 The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
0.969 3.77 Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate by Jennifer A. Mather
0.968 3.64 The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
0.968 4.2 The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution by Dougal Dixon
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.967 3.91 Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.966 3.36 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof
0.966 3.92 Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference by Dipesh Chakrabarty
0.966 3.58 Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Barnes
0.965 4.1 The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter
0.965 3.37 Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer
0.965 3.67 An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton
0.964 4.08 Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton
0.964 3.17 Socrates : A Very Short Introduction by C. C. W. Taylor
0.964 3.89 The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master (The Way of the Warrior Series) by Takuan Soho
0.964 3.87 A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
0.964 3.87 Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
0.963 3.63 The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
0.962 3.7 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
0.962 4.09 The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
0.962 3.65 Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language by Desmond Morris
0.961 4.02 The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.96 3.48 Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
0.96 3.44 Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
0.96 3.93 Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen
0.957 3.53 Selected Writings by Karl Marx
0.957 3.81 Turtle Feet by Nikolai Grozni
0.957 3.66 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
0.957 4.11 Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel
0.957 3.89 The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth by Robert Foster
0.956 4.02 Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
0.956 4.17 The Book of Chuang Tzu (Penguin Classics) by Zhuangzi
0.956 4.26 Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Firdausi
0.953 3.97 An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore
0.953 3.96 The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
0.953 3.84 A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson
0.952 3.95 Magritte by Jacques Meuris
0.952 3.98 How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
0.952 3.95 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
0.952 3.87 The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams
0.952 3.98 Introduction to Tantra : The Transformation of Desire by Lama Thubten Yeshe
0.951 4.03 Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Pierre de Caussade
0.951 3.71 The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells
0.95 4.22 Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
0.95 4.14 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler
0.95 3.78 An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi
0.95 4.05 Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume
0.949 3.45 The Trojan War: A New History by Barry S. Strauss
0.949 3.95 The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
0.948 4.03 On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.948 3.71 Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
0.947 3.99 Art as Experience by John Dewey
0.947 3.46 Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
0.947 3.46 Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt
0.947 4.14 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
0.947 3.25 Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama
0.946 3.54 The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
0.944 3.89 Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
0.944 3.36 Judaism: A Very Short Introduction by Norman Solomon
0.943 3.73 Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson
0.942 3.59 Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome by Cyril Mango
0.941 3.81 Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.941 3.82 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
0.94 3.96 Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
0.94 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 4.12 The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
0.939 3.93 Demian by Hermann Hesse
0.939 3.82 Become What You Are by Alan Watts
0.939 3.57 Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler
0.938 3.51 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
0.938 4.08 Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk
0.937 4.05 The Dhammapada by Anonymous
0.937 4.01 Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality by Brad Warner
0.937 3.41 Molecules: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball
0.936 3.54 A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.936 4.07 The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
0.935 4.21 No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva by Pema Chödrön
0.935 3.75 I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
0.935 3.61 Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
0.935 4.06 The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
0.934 3.88 Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
0.934 3.95 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz
0.933 3.71 The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
0.933 3.75 On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-Tung
0.932 3.61 The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
0.932 4.45 The Long Discourses of the Buddha by Maurice Walshe
0.931 3.79 The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.931 3.79 The Tao of Wu by RZA
0.931 3.96 God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
0.931 3.33 Mad Kings & Queens by Alison Rattle
0.93 3.89 The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
0.93 3.75 Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
0.93 4.35 Euthyphro / Apology / Crito / Phaedo / Phaedrus by Plato
0.929 4.21 The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
0.929 3.78 Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman
0.929 3.95 Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.928 3.75 Atheism: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Baggini
0.928 4.07 Blindness (Harvest Book) by José Saramago
0.928 3.72 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
0.928 4.08 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
0.927 4.09 Gnomes by Rien Poortvliet
0.927 3.8 The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire by Andrew Marshall
0.927 3.73 The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
0.927 3.93 The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
0.926 4.12 Comic Book Tattoo: Tales Inspired by Tori Amos by Tori Amos
0.926 3.59 Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels
0.925 3.67 A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Path to Enlightenment by Scott Carney
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.87 The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.924 3.81 God and the State by Michael Bakunin
0.923 4.32 The Book of Common Prayer [1953] by Episcopal Church
0.923 3.68 The Wu-Tang Manual: Enter the 36 Chambers, Volume One by RZA
0.923 3.7 Comrades!: A History of World Communism by Robert Service
0.923 4.08 Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
0.923 4 The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama XIV
0.923 3.57 Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
0.923 3.88 Coup d'Etat by Edward Luttwak
0.922 3.67 Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
0.922 3.84 The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
0.922 3.77 The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
0.92 3.75 King Edward VIII: A Biography by Philip Ziegler
0.92 3.75 Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
0.92 4.09 The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama XIV
0.92 3.3 The Greek Alexander Romance by Ps-Callisthenes
0.92 3.92 The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.919 3.83 From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
0.919 3.68 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
0.919 3.88 A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French
0.919 3.94 De Officiis [Latin text] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.918 3.71 The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
0.918 3.81 Omoo by Herman Melville
0.917 3.61 Four Laws That Drive the Universe by Peter Atkins
0.917 4.11 The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic
0.917 3.64 Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok
0.915 3.58 Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma
0.915 3.97 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
0.914 3.57 Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Christopher Hale
0.914 3.8 The Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
0.913 4.01 Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone
0.913 4.13 How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
0.913 3.56 Becoming Enlightened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
0.912 3.59 Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish
0.912 3.61 The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer
0.912 4.24 Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works by Dionysius the Areopagite
0.912 4.09 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
0.912 3.64 The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
0.911 3.66 Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
0.91 4.05 The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy
0.91 4.03 Murmurs of Earth; The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan
0.91 3.85 Fables of Aesop by Aesop
0.907 2.91 Theology: A Very Short Introduction by David F. Ford
0.907 3.4 Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
0.906 4.2 The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
0.906 4.18 The Way of a Pilgrim / The Pilgrim Continues His Way by R. M. French
0.906 3.82 Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
0.905 4.19 The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
0.904 3.05 Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore
0.904 3.6 Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
0.904 3.93 How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz
0.904 3.83 Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
0.904 4.07 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
0.904 3.72 The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics by Elaine Pagels
0.904 4.07 Epodes and Odes by Horace
0.903 4.1 Swimmy by Leo Lionni
0.902 3.85 Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth by Holger Hoock
0.902 3.93 Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
0.902 3.6 Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser
0.902 3.42 Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.902 3.14 The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past (Popular Mechanics) by The Editors of Popular Mechanics
0.901 3.56 The Secret Language of Symbols by David Fontana
0.901 4.04 Democracy in America; and Two essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.901 3.78 Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary by Martin H. Manser
0.901 4 On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
0.9 3.59 The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
0.9 4.07 Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls
0.9 3.83 Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
0.899 3.8 The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
0.899 4.26 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
0.898 3.81 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
0.897 3.7 The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
0.897 3.92 Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
0.896 4.16 Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
0.895 3.39 Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
0.895 3.76 Models of Democracy by David Held
0.894 3.98 Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
0.893 4.11 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
0.893 3.86 The Wall: Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.893 4.13 Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw
0.893 3.78 God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero
0.893 4.04 Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
0.891 4.01 Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.891 3.51 The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels
0.891 4.01 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
0.89 3.77 Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
0.89 4.2 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
0.89 3.9 How to Meditate: A Practical Guide by Kathleen McDonald
0.889 3.54 Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
0.888 4.39 The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series) by Nosson Scherman
0.888 4.01 The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
0.888 4.23 Liberalism: The Classical Tradition by Ludwig Von Mises
0.888 4.07 The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
0.888 3.81 Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.887 3.72 Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
0.887 4.19 The Dhammapada by Balangoda Ananda Maitreya
0.886 4.03 Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury
0.885 3.98 The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
0.885 4 The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
0.885 3.9 The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History by Gordon S. Wood
0.885 4.05 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
0.884 4.21 Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
0.883 3.25 Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins by Simon Blackburn
0.883 3.35 Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
0.883 4.14 Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
0.883 3.52 Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway
0.882 4.14 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
0.882 4.04 The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.882 4.1 Herbs by Lesley Bremness
0.882 4.12 The Poetic Edda by Anonymous
0.882 4.15 The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.881 3.56 Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
0.88 4.2 The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Harold Bloom
0.88 3.76 The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos by Joel R. Primack
0.879 4.02 Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
0.879 3.76 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
0.879 3.99 Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
0.879 3.1 Emotion: A Very Short Introduction by Dylan Evans
0.879 3.65 Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
0.878 4.37 Transfigurations by Alex Grey
0.878 4.02 The Decline of the West : An Abridged Edition by Oswald Spengler
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
0.878 4.05 Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
0.878 3.52 Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom
0.877 3.8 Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe by Michael Maclagan
0.877 3.96 How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
0.876 3.74 On War [abridged - Penguin Classics] by Carl von Clausewitz
0.875 3.79 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
0.875 3.5 Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge
0.875 3.9 The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
0.875 3.83 Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopædia by David Day
0.875 4.11 Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
0.874 3.96 Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister
0.873 3.17 The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
0.873 4.24 Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.872 3.94 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner
0.872 4.07 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
0.872 3.39 Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach
0.872 4.09 The SAS Survival Handbook by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
0.871 3.68 The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault
0.871 3.96 Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills
0.87 3.64 The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair
0.869 3.62 The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
0.869 4.04 The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto
0.869 4.18 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 3.66 The Vikings: A History by Robert Ferguson
0.868 4.12 Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
0.867 3.67 Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species by Lynn Margulis