Controversial Books for SimonTanner

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
1.079 3.8 The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
1.051 3.66 The Secret History of MI6: 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
1.043 3.55 Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages by Guy Halsall
1.031 3.48 The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican by Catherine Fletcher
1.026 3.79 Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Sönke Neitzel
1 3.55 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.903 3.74 The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
0.893 3.89 The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
0.855 3.98 Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
0.853 3.58 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
0.847 3.78 Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips
0.818 3.72 Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton
0.813 3.69 The Children of Henry VIII by John Guy
0.8 4.04 The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun by Lu Xun
0.796 3.41 The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
0.794 3.76 Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel by John Guy
0.78 4 Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel
0.778 4.02 Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
0.77 3.8 The Red Flag: A History of Communism by David Priestland
0.767 3.84 Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
0.763 3.4 Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Margaret MacMillan
0.746 3.92 The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes
0.745 4.25 The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
0.742 4 The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
0.727 4.23 The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
0.721 3.38 Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien
0.683 4.2 Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven
0.681 4.09 Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
0.678 4.09 The Frock-Coated Communist: The Life and Times of the Original Champagne Socialist by Tristram Hunt
0.67 4.03 The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
0.666 3.98 The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen
0.656 4.35 The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
0.628 4.11 The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
0.59 3.96 The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
0.542 3.53 Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock
0.536 4.16 The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
0.452 4.2 Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter