Controversial Books for Pabel

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 2.74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
1.369 3.34 Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin
1.332 3.56 The Six Enneads by Plotinus
1.326 3.16 The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure by James Redfield
1.313 3.63 Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
1.301 3.71 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.284 3.64 Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida
1.245 2.88 Shame by Taslima Nasrin
1.244 3.48 Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1.224 3.57 Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant
1.217 3.07 The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.207 3.13 Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.202 3.77 Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
1.187 2.98 Two: A Phallic Novel by Alberto Moravia
1.184 2.98 Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
1.182 3.84 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.179 3.88 Drawn and Quartered by E. M. Cioran
1.173 3.45 Mein Leben mit Mozart by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
1.16 3.74 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.153 3.29 Justine by Marquis de Sade
1.15 3.93 The Temptation to Exist by Emil Cioran
1.15 3.16 Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac
1.143 3.63 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1.139 3.38 The Romance of the Rose by de Lorris Guillaume
1.139 3.78 Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
1.136 3.59 Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.134 3.52 A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
1.132 3.61 Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
1.131 3.81 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.13 3.94 The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
1.128 3.52 Woutertje Pieterse by Multatuli
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.125 3.52 Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
1.124 3.55 Juliette by D.A.F. de Sade
1.122 3.53 Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
1.122 3.32 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
1.12 3.29 Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors by Marquis de Sade
1.117 3.83 The Relic by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
1.115 3.91 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1.115 3.6 The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.112 3.98 The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani
1.111 3.59 Mother by Maxim Gorki
1.111 3.88 Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
1.109 3.41 The Conspiracy of Catiline by Gaius Sallustius Crispus
1.108 3.68 Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
1.107 3.2 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
1.105 3.79 Gargantua by François Rabelais
1.101 3.52 Proslogion, with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Anselm
1.1 3.38 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.099 3.11 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
1.097 3.75 The Ambassadors by Henry James
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.093 3.67 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
1.093 3.84 The Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegl by Charles de Coster
1.091 3.53 The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1.091 3.85 The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 5 (1947-1955) by Anaïs Nin
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.089 3.88 The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
1.087 4.19 Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
1.086 3.66 Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
1.084 3.52 Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.084 3.37 Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
1.084 3.99 Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
1.083 3.88 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.082 3.34 In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor
1.082 3.64 Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.081 3.57 Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.079 3.43 Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
1.077 3.75 Love Life by Kluun
1.077 3.6 Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
1.076 3.73 False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
1.074 3.86 Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
1.072 4.29 Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises
1.07 3.42 Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
1.069 3.58 That Awful Mess on Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
1.069 3.62 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.068 3.67 The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat: A Comedy of Ideas by Steven Lukes
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.068 3.93 An Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
1.067 3.83 Michelin Green Guide Paris by Michelin Travel Publications
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.064 3.88 Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1.064 3.85 We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.063 3.78 Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society by Bruno Latour
1.062 3.63 Love by Stendhal
1.06 3.83 Nader tot U by Gerard Reve
1.059 3.44 Within the Walls by Giorgio Bassani
1.058 3.71 Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.057 4 The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
1.055 3.93 Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.054 3.67 The Evenings by Gerard Reve
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.051 3.66 The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
1.051 3.98 Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
1.05 3.68 DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Greece, Athens & the Mainland by Marc Dubin
1.05 3.82 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1.05 3.46 9-11 by Noam Chomsky
1.049 3.88 Theological-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza
1.049 3.89 Underworld by Don DeLillo
1.049 3.52 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1.048 4.08 Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
1.047 3.49 As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo
1.047 3.69 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
1.046 3.74 Rhetoric by Aristotle
1.046 3.87 Danube by Claudio Magris
1.045 3.7 Lichamelijke oefening by Midas Dekkers
1.044 3.68 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
1.044 3.47 Trials and Tribulations by Theodor Fontane
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.042 3.58 Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
1.041 3.5 The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
1.041 3.64 One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
1.04 2.9 Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence
1.04 3.33 The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
1.04 3.7 Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov
1.038 3.62 The Art of Always Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer
1.037 3.77 Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
1.037 3.5 Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
1.037 3.6 The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by Vaslav Nijinsky
1.037 3.57 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1.037 3.77 Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
1.037 3.94 The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 AD by Peter Brown
1.035 3.67 The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
1.035 3.68 Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
1.033 3.77 Paradise by Toni Morrison
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.032 3.96 Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi
1.032 3.55 The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.031 4 Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czesław Miłosz
1.031 3.86 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.031 3.32 The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
1.031 3.6 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1.03 4 I and Thou by Martin Buber
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.58 Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso
1.029 4.1 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas : von Kempen
1.028 3.78 Maxims by François de La Rochefoucauld
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.025 3.81 DK Eyewitness Travel Guide : Germany by Joanna Egert-Romanowska
1.024 3.74 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
1.024 3.96 All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms by E. M. Cioran
1.023 3.06 The Stone Bridal Bed by Harry Mulisch
1.022 3.48 Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
1.022 4.15 Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
1.022 3.79 The Death of King Arthur by David F. Hult
1.022 3.85 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
1.021 4.12 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1.02 3.65 Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.02 3.84 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
1.019 3.81 Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
1.019 3.51 How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
1.019 3.43 Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
1.018 3.82 The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
1.017 3.31 Eros en de eenzame man een droefgeestig en schandelijk porno-verhaal by Louis Paul Boon
1.017 3.69 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.017 3.87 On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.017 3.39 Het derde huwelijk roman by Tom Lanoye
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.63 The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.016 3.42 The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
1.015 2.91 An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton
1.015 3.99 Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rüdiger Safranski
1.014 3.7 On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
1.014 3.62 Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.014 3.48 The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella
1.013 3.54 The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
1.013 4.03 Molloy by Samuel Beckett
1.011 3.83 The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity by Peter Brown
1.011 3.72 The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
1.011 3.54 The Learned Ladies by Molière
1.011 3.68 The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
1.01 3.95 The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault
1.009 3.78 Poetics by Aristotle
1.009 3.71 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.007 3.93 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1.007 3.8 My little war by Louis Paul Boon
1.007 3.76 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.007 3.31 Brazil by John Updike
1.006 3.84 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.006 3.86 Pensées by Blaise Pascal
1.005 3.74 The Defeat of the Mind by Alain Finkielkraut
1.005 3.98 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.005 3.06 Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
1.005 3.77 Il compagno by Cesare Pavese
1.004 3.64 Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac
1.004 3.88 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.004 3.41 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
1.003 4.09 The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Estienne de La Boètie
1.001 3.63 Andromache by Jean Racine
1.001 4.09 Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
1.001 3.85 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1.001 4.17 Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann
1 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
1 3.78 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
1 3.67 Cheese by Willem Elsschot
1 3.55 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.999 3.83 Mozart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
0.999 3.97 Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
0.999 3.78 The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela
0.999 3.19 De asielzoeker by Arnon Grunberg
0.999 3.9 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
0.999 3.87 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.73 The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
0.998 3.94 A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
0.996 4.02 On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.67 Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert
0.995 3.5 Little Birds by Anaïs Nin
0.995 3.81 The Story of My Life by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
0.994 4.07 Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
0.994 3.44 The Beach by Cesare Pavese
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.993 3.57 Pulp by Charles Bukowski
0.993 3.52 Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
0.992 3.83 Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.992 3.48 Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
0.992 3.75 Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.991 3.9 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.99 3.75 Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.99 4 The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
0.99 3.68 This Business of Living by Cesare Pavese
0.99 3.82 The Georgics by Publius Vergilius Maro
0.989 3.94 Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.79 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
0.989 3.75 Droll Stories by Honoré de Balzac
0.988 3.71 Antigone by Sophocles
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.987 3.89 The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
0.987 3.85 The Rule of St. Benedict by Saint Benedict
0.987 3.41 The Secret Life of Saeed, The Pessoptimist by Imīl Ḥabībī
0.987 3.95 The Journal of Jules Renard by Jules Renard
0.986 3.81 Knots by R. D. Laing
0.986 3.3 The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
0.986 2.91 Beatrijs by Anoniem
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.985 3.67 The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
0.984 3.66 The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac
0.984 3.53 Helena by Evelyn Waugh
0.984 4.07 Psychological Types by C. G. Jung
0.984 3.61 Possessed, or, The secret of Myslotch by Witold Gombrowicz
0.983 3.53 New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
0.983 3.95 On the Soul by Aristotle
0.982 4.03 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
0.982 3.77 The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
0.981 3.51 Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
0.981 3.92 Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin
0.981 4.06 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
0.981 3.12 Mariken van Nieumeghen by Anonymous
0.981 3.85 The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.981 3.98 My Childhood by Maxim Gorky
0.98 4.18 Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
0.98 3.65 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
0.98 3.88 Chekhov by Henri Troyat
0.979 3.53 Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
0.979 3.66 The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
0.979 3.79 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
0.979 3.86 History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
0.978 3.37 Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.978 3.54 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.978 4.06 Petersburg by Andrei Bely
0.978 4.28 Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard
0.978 3.66 La lune et les feux by Cesare Pavese
0.977 4 Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk
0.977 3.87 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
0.975 3.88 One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
0.975 3.91 Orientalism by Edward W. Said
0.975 3.74 This Is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco
0.975 3.67 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anónimo
0.974 3.79 Candido, or, A dream dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia
0.974 3.98 Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
0.974 3.82 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
0.974 3.66 The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
0.973 4 MoMA Highlights by Harriet Schoenholz Bee
0.972 3.96 Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
0.972 3.77 Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler
0.972 4.07 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.971 3.57 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
0.97 3.47 Nadja by André Breton
0.97 3.67 Het dwaallicht by Willem Elsschot
0.97 3.47 The Sin of Father Mouret by Émile Zola
0.97 3.82 Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
0.969 3.96 Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.968 3.9 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
0.968 3.81 In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
0.968 3.71 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.968 3.61 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
0.968 4 1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939 by Uwe Scheid
0.967 3.7 A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
0.967 3.91 Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.967 3.56 A Life by Italo Svevo
0.967 4.18 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
0.966 3.84 Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
0.966 3.97 The Once and Future King, Including The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White
0.966 3.52 Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
0.966 3.56 Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Barnes
0.966 3.46 Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli by Maurizio Viroli
0.965 3.72 Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
0.965 4.03 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
0.965 4 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
0.965 3.91 Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard
0.965 3.58 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
0.964 3.99 De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
0.964 3.66 Jazz by Toni Morrison
0.964 4.04 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.964 3.95 Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
0.964 3.51 Utopia by Thomas More
0.963 3.73 Selected Letters, 1796-1817 (Oxford Paperbacks) by Jane Austen
0.963 3.81 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
0.963 3.73 Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze
0.963 3.61 Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
0.963 3.64 The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
0.962 3.58 Etica Para Amador by Fernando Savater
0.962 3.93 The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
0.962 3.67 L'ignorance by Milan Kundera
0.962 3.78 Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
0.961 3.68 Saturday by Ian McEwan
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.961 4.06 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
0.961 4 The Seagull + Uncle Vanya + Three Sisters + The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
0.96 3.49 Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
0.96 3.46 Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
0.96 3.49 Envy by Yuri Olesha
0.96 3.93 Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
0.959 3.9 Paula by Isabel Allende
0.959 3.95 The Myth of Sisyphus [essay] by Albert Camus
0.959 3.7 The Hive by Camilo José Cela
0.959 3.92 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
0.958 3.54 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
0.958 3.9 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.958 4.08 Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
0.958 3.75 The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
0.957 3.66 The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
0.957 3.98 The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
0.957 4.15 Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
0.956 4.22 Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
0.956 3.64 Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky
0.956 3.83 Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
0.956 3.83 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
0.956 4 The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
0.955 4.07 On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
0.954 4.13 The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
0.954 4.14 Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
0.954 3.8 Candide by Voltaire
0.953 3.32 De geruchten by Hugo Claus
0.953 4.06 The Poverty of Historicism by Karl R. Popper
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.952 3.44 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
0.952 3.47 A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon
0.952 3.62 Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
0.952 3.8 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
0.952 3.32 Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell
0.952 4.06 The Complete Works of Horace by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
0.952 3.94 Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
0.952 3.58 The Art Of War by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.952 4.02 The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
0.951 3.84 Out of Place: a memoir by Edward W. Said
0.951 4.09 Zomer te Ter-Muren by Louis Paul Boon
0.951 3.54 The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
0.951 3.72 Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
0.951 3.76 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
0.951 3.6 Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
0.95 4.2 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.95 3.06 A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
0.95 3.84 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.949 4.08 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.949 3.72 The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
0.949 3.85 Embers by Sándor Márai
0.949 3.97 The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
0.949 4.07 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.949 3.75 Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.949 3.83 At All Costs by John Gilstrap
0.948 3.91 Tell Me the Truth About Love by W. H. Auden
0.948 3.47 Putas Asesinas (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Bolaño
0.948 3.78 Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
0.948 3.5 The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist
0.948 3.53 Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
0.948 3.6 A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
0.947 3.95 Plexus by Henry Miller
0.947 3.81 Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
0.947 3.67 Daphnis and Chloe by Longos
0.947 4.09 Essays, Part 1/3 by Michel de Montaigne
0.947 3.86 Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
0.945 3.54 Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan
0.944 4.26 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
0.944 4 The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.944 3.89 On Free Choice of the Will by Saint Augustine
0.943 3.84 The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 4 (1944-1947) by Anaïs Nin
0.943 3.81 The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.943 3.9 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.942 3.99 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.942 3.88 Moscow Circles by Venedikt Erofeev
0.942 3.23 Mieke Maaike's obscene jeugd by Louis Paul Boon
0.942 3.58 On Reading by Marcel Proust
0.941 3.62 Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
0.941 3.68 Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dalí
0.941 3.83 Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.941 3.89 O Finado Mattia Pacal by Luigi Pirandello
0.94 4.14 Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
0.94 4 Black Boy by Richard Wright
0.94 3.97 Othello by William Shakespeare
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
0.939 4.14 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
0.939 3.34 Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes
0.939 3.82 A dama do cachorrinho by Anton Tschechow
0.938 3.86 Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
0.938 3.84 Sula by Toni Morrison
0.938 3.93 On War by Carl von Clausewitz
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.938 4.15 Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
0.937 3.56 The History of Greek Philosophy: Socrates and Beyond by Luciano De Crescenzo
0.937 3.74 Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac
0.936 3.84 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
0.936 3.27 Karel ende Elegast by Anonymous
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.36 A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
0.935 3.66 Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini
0.935 3.99 Enchiridion by Epictetus
0.935 3.92 Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Dmitri Shostakovich
0.934 3.58 The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir by Isabel Allende
0.934 3.9 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
0.934 3.61 Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography by Lesley Chamberlain
0.934 3.85 Publieke werken by Thomas Rosenboom
0.934 4 Die Harzreise by Heinrich Heine
0.933 3.47 A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
0.933 4.06 The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
0.933 3.56 Wittgenstein's Poker : The Story of a Ten-minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds
0.933 3.83 The Night of the Girondists by Jacques Presser
0.932 3.86 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall
0.932 3.31 A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo
0.932 3.54 Lectures & conversations on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.931 3.78 The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.931 3.8 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
0.931 3.81 The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
0.931 3.71 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
0.931 4.05 Ruslan and Lyudmila by Alexander Pushkin
0.931 3.96 Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by C. G. Jung
0.93 3.77 La giornata d'uno scrutatore by Italo Calvino
0.93 4.08 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.93 3.65 Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
0.93 3.89 Character by F. Bordewijk
0.929 3.85 Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac
0.929 3.62 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
0.929 3.82 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden
0.929 3.97 Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.928 3.81 Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
0.928 4.04 Piranesi: Complete Etchings by Luigi Ficacci
0.927 4.24 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka
0.927 3.86 Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
0.926 3.74 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0.926 3.79 On Television by Pierre Bourdieu
0.925 3.58 Gordon by Edith Templeton
0.924 3.94 The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever
0.924 3.81 The Walk by Robert Walser
0.924 3.79 The First Man by Albert Camus
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.52 The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
0.924 3.72 Frost by Thomas Bernhard
0.924 3.41 Mozart's Journey From Vienna To Prague by Eduard Mörike
0.923 3.66 Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
0.923 3.71 Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
0.923 4 Russia under the Old Regime by Richard Pipes
0.923 3.57 Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
0.923 3.67 Claudine at School by Colette
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.91 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
0.922 4.04 Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
0.922 3.52 Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
0.922 4.3 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.921 3.86 Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert