Controversial Books for abhinav.maurya

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
1.301 3.72 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.283 3.28 Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho
1.245 2.9 Shame by Taslima Nasrin
1.234 3.34 The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.186 3.6 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.182 3.85 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.167 3.64 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1.162 3.88 Linda Goodman's Star Signs by Linda Goodman
1.153 3.69 The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach
1.149 3.33 Rice by Su Tong
1.147 3.38 By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness by Paulo Coelho
1.146 3.25 What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
1.138 3.33 Raj by Gita Mehta
1.137 3.34 Love Story by Erich Segal
1.136 3.54 Nothing by Chance by Richard Bach
1.131 2.37 One Night at the Call Center: A Novel by Chetan Bhagat
1.128 3.4 The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom by Paulo Coelho
1.126 3.29 Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, a Novel by Chetan Bhagat
1.125 3.05 Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
1.115 3.24 Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
1.113 3.57 One by Richard Bach
1.109 3.32 The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
1.1 3.44 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
1.078 3.93 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
1.052 3.06 The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
1.051 3.48 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1.051 3.6 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
1.049 3.5 Mirage by Soheir Khashoggi
1.047 3.87 Theaetetus [Greek and translation] by Plato
1.044 3.49 The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
1.043 3.63 The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
1.036 3.88 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.034 3.86 Doctors by Erich Segal
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.027 3.54 A Painted House by John Grisham
1.023 3.48 The Class by Erich Segal
1.019 3.77 Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person by Hugh Prather
1.017 3.57 Snow by Orhan Pamuk
1.014 3.72 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
1.012 3.98 How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
1.01 3.75 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.001 3.53 Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
0.999 3.9 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
0.996 3.63 The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
0.995 3.56 The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins
0.992 4.05 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
0.991 3.74 An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
0.989 3.63 Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit by Richard Bach
0.989 3.42 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
0.987 3.94 Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
0.984 3.77 Beastly Tales from Here and There by Vikram Seth
0.984 3.95 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.982 3.02 Home by Manju Kapur
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.976 3.74 A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
0.974 3.32 The Family Way by Tony Parsons
0.974 3.7 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
0.972 3.8 The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
0.97 3.94 Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.97 3.58 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.964 3.72 The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.959 3.44 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.956 3.87 Heidi by Johanna Spyri
0.952 3.79 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
0.95 4.22 Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
0.95 4.2 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.949 3.47 A Gift of Wings by Richard Bach
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.948 3.68 The Collected Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer
0.948 3.69 Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul
0.946 3.54 The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
0.945 3.84 An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
0.941 3.73 The Guide by R. K. Narayan
0.94 3.1 Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
0.937 3.41 To Cut a Long Story Short by Jeffrey Archer
0.936 4.28 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
0.935 3.27 Domino by Ross King
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.929 3.48 Casanova by Andrew Miller
0.928 3.52 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
0.925 3.85 The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
0.925 4.22 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.921 4.06 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.921 4 The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
0.92 3.74 Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
0.92 4.19 Middlemarch by George Eliot
0.92 3.76 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.906 3.56 Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
0.903 3.6 Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
0.903 3.92 Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
0.902 4.18 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
0.899 3.85 The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
0.897 3.95 Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
0.892 3.68 The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.889 3.92 In the Beginning by Chaim Potok
0.889 3.98 Spring Fever by P. G. Wodehouse
0.888 3.74 Animal's People by Indra Sinha
0.887 4.04 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
0.887 3.71 Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
0.884 3.67 Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.876 4.07 The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth
0.875 4.1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.872 3.9 The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
0.871 3.97 Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
0.86 3.61 The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
0.859 4.04 The Portable Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
0.858 4.17 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
0.858 3.92 Love and War by John Jakes
0.856 4.08 Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse
0.855 4.2 Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
0.851 3.94 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.85 4.06 The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy
0.848 3.78 The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.847 3.9 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.845 4.32 Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
0.844 3.49 Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
0.844 3.53 The Crazed by Ha Jin
0.842 4.15 Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
0.827 4.03 Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer
0.825 4.09 Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.825 3.61 Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra
0.824 4.36 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
0.822 3.91 Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
0.821 4.14 Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.818 4.22 Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
0.811 4.24 Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
0.807 4.28 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
0.807 4.32 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
0.804 3.33 Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
0.803 4.04 Service with a Smile by P. G. Wodehouse
0.8 3.7 A Glossary of Literary Terms, 8th Edition by M. H. Abrams
0.796 3.44 Masada by Ernest K. Gann
0.784 4.13 Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
0.779 4.07 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
0.776 3.63 Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
0.769 3.39 North From Rome by Helen MacInnes
0.762 3.72 The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
0.761 4.18 Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse
0.758 4.45 The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Three, Parts V-VII) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.733 4.41 The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night by Powys Mathers
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.673 3.95 Collected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry