Controversial Books for bigal123

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 3.72 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.266 3.49 The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
1.182 3.85 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.122 3.57 Anthem by Ayn Rand
1.122 3.31 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
1.106 4.18 How Children Fail by John Holt
1.093 3.61 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.037 4.18 How Children Learn by John Holt
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1 3.85 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.991 2.97 Closing Time by Joseph Heller
0.984 3.86 Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
0.977 4.01 Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
0.976 3.98 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
0.974 3.98 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
0.973 4.14 Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
0.964 3.94 Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
0.959 3.92 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.915 3.76 Messenger by Lois Lowry
0.904 4.07 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
0.895 4.16 The Giver by Lois Lowry
0.887 3.75 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
0.794 4.04 Whose justice? Which rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre