Controversial Books for Renzomalo

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
1.301 3.71 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.249 3.86 Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin
1.137 4.05 Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
1.118 3.17 Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
1.104 3.81 We the Living by Ayn Rand
1.065 3.84 Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.03 3.69 Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America by Ann Coulter
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.51 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
1.026 3.56 Timeline by Michael Crichton
1.025 2.99 I Am No One by Patrick Flanery
1.021 3.21 Micro by Michael Crichton
1.017 4.31 Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell
1.004 3.65 The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer
1.003 3.51 Relentless: A Novel by Dean Koontz
1.003 3.56 Inferno by Dan Brown
0.999 3.78 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
0.99 3.01 The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
0.987 3.39 Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Andrea Leininger
0.983 3.34 Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
0.978 3.82 Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
0.97 3.85 Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
0.963 3.91 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
0.961 3.06 The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
0.961 3.68 Saturday by Ian McEwan
0.96 3.85 The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
0.96 4.05 After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn
0.958 3.72 God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr.
0.951 3.8 Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler by Brad Matsen
0.939 4.12 The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
0.937 3.69 A Widow for One Year by John Irving
0.936 4.16 Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
0.93 3.81 Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.919 3.69 Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
0.916 3.97 Common Sense by Thomas Paine
0.915 4.11 Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
0.907 4.01 Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters
0.906 3.92 Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
0.898 3.9 Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
0.897 3.7 The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
0.894 3.86 Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? by Billy Crystal
0.893 4.1 The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
0.883 3.34 Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 4.07 The Cider House Rules by John Irving
0.866 4.1 The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
0.864 3.84 Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
0.863 4.06 The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
0.862 4 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
0.857 3.85 Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher
0.855 3.88 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
0.852 4.26 The Princess Bride by William Goldman
0.848 3.93 Blind Man's Bluff : The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag
0.847 4.05 A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
0.846 3.88 Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly
0.84 4.35 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.84 4.31 Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
0.837 3.93 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
0.836 4.11 America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William J. Bennett
0.834 4.03 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
0.833 3.61 Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
0.832 3.65 Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact by John Cornwell
0.822 4.17 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
0.822 4.41 Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha
0.818 4.1 Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer
0.818 4.21 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
0.818 4.28 The Martian by Andy Weir
0.817 4.04 Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
0.817 4.02 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
0.815 4.15 True Grit by Charles Portis
0.814 4.16 Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
0.813 4.31 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
0.813 4.09 The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
0.812 3.9 Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
0.811 4.22 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.811 4.32 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
0.805 4.13 D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
0.803 4.29 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
0.801 3.98 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
0.794 3.82 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
0.791 3.87 Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
0.791 4.09 Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
0.789 4.14 The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough
0.789 4.18 Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
0.788 4.3 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption {novella} by Stephen King
0.786 3.86 The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
0.785 4.25 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
0.783 4.38 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
0.782 4.05 One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
0.78 4.03 Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
0.768 4.04 The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
0.759 4.15 The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
0.757 4.16 Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
0.75 4.32 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
0.749 4.28 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
0.748 4.34 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
0.743 4.19 The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
0.74 4.15 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
0.733 4.44 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
0.729 3.66 The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
0.727 3.79 Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From by Richard Davenport-Hines
0.722 4.28 Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography by William F. Buckley Jr.
0.721 4.19 The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
0.711 4.14 Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
0.701 4.23 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
0.696 3.94 A Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin
0.695 4.29 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
0.681 4.48 Titanic: An Illustrated History by Don Lynch
0.634 4.21 A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century by William F. Buckley Jr.
0.628 4.36 Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
0.623 3.56 The Witches of Eastwick by George Miller