Controversial Books for camisnj

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
1.449 3.82 The Koran by al-Qur'an
1.324 3.66 Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
1.28 3.12 I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody
1.237 4.06 George Washington : Writings by George Washington
1.234 3.34 The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
1.23 3.67 The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future by Jonathan Cahn
1.206 4.02 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.202 3.74 Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
1.194 3.58 Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
1.167 3.95 Writings, 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays by William James
1.136 3.57 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.114 3.64 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.114 3.14 What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan
1.1 3.59 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
1.096 3.09 The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
1.096 3.67 Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
1.094 3.11 On My Own by Diane Rehm
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.084 4.22 The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
1.072 3.82 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
1.071 3.57 Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows: Poems by Rod McKuen
1.07 3.69 Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1.066 3.94 The American Revolution, Writings from the War of Independence by John H. Rhodehamel
1.065 3.45 The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
1.056 3.54 The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.052 3.9 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
1.051 3.48 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1.049 3.83 Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew Bacevich
1.047 3.66 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
1.046 3.87 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1.045 3.91 Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson
1.035 3.67 Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford
1.034 3.35 Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid by Dr. Denis Leary
1.032 4.08 The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It by Mark Twain
1.03 3.09 The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 4.09 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
1.029 3.18 Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail S. Gorbachev
1.026 3.57 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.025 4.45 Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 by Annie Leibovitz
1.024 4.05 Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind by Stephen Crane
1.011 3.61 Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
1.011 3.6 The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945 by J. C. Masterman
1.01 3.24 The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 4.17 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.007 4.11 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1.007 3.9 The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss
1.006 3.95 Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 3.41 Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
1.003 4.11 Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair
1.001 3.53 Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
1.001 3.86 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1 3.78 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.98 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
0.994 3.9 The Best of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
0.994 4.02 Ho Chi Minh by William J. Duiker
0.991 3.68 World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
0.99 3.66 Warday by Whitley Strieber
0.99 3.86 The Letters of Noël Coward by Noël Coward
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.37 At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
0.986 4.31 France and England in North America, Vol. 1 by Francis Parkman
0.985 3.49 The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen
0.983 3.77 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
0.981 4.07 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
0.981 3.85 The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
0.981 3.59 The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Maher
0.981 4.14 Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by James Woodforde
0.98 3.73 The Analects by Confucius
0.98 3.49 The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
0.975 3.36 The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton
0.975 4.53 Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2 by Mark Twain
0.973 3.71 The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders
0.971 3.39 Salinger by David Shields
0.97 3.84 Novels: 1871-1880 by Henry James
0.97 3.38 You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age by Robert J. Wagner
0.97 4.09 The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
0.97 3.65 Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
0.968 3.83 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
0.966 3.82 Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
0.966 3.09 Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
0.965 3.66 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
0.962 3.76 Elizabeth I by J. E. Neale
0.962 3.84 Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
0.961 3.52 Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt
0.958 3.65 Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber
0.957 3.67 Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
0.956 3.83 The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
0.956 4.27 H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) by H. P. Lovecraft
0.955 3.96 The Yogi Book: "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said" by Yogi Berra
0.946 3.91 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
0.944 3.77 A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
0.94 3.79 Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
0.939 4.07 Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.938 3.91 On War by Carl von Clausewitz
0.938 4.14 Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H. F. Saint
0.937 3.86 The New Yorker stories by Ann Beattie
0.936 4.15 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.87 The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 by A. J. P. Taylor
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.85 The Egyptians by Alan Gardiner
0.934 3.82 The Dead Sea Scrolls by Géza Vermes
0.933 4.19 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
0.933 4.06 LIFE: Our Century in Pictures by Richard B. Stolley
0.931 4.11 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.928 3.79 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub
0.924 3.72 Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.63 Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs
0.922 3.53 Hollywood by Gore Vidal
0.922 4.32 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
0.92 3.71 A History of Chinese Civilization by Jacques Gernet
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.916 3.93 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
0.915 3.88 Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
0.915 3.99 The Greek Myths: Complete Edition by Robert Graves
0.915 3.86 Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh
0.914 3.58 The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
0.914 3.9 Failed States by Noam Chomsky
0.911 3.97 The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.91 3.66 The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.91 3.95 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.91 3.57 Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
0.91 3.78 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0.908 3.85 We: A Novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.908 3.68 Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
0.907 3.93 Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
0.907 3.87 The Sea Wolf by Jack London
0.906 3.98 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
0.905 4.2 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
0.905 3.86 The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
0.905 3.93 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
0.902 4.05 The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
0.902 3.79 The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward
0.901 4.23 Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.9 3.86 Le Testament Français by Andreï Makine
0.9 3.69 On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
0.9 3.9 Hannibal by Ernle Bradford
0.898 3.95 Bomber Command : The Myths and Reality of the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
0.897 3.42 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
0.896 4.03 U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
0.895 4.1 We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
0.894 3.96 Dracula by Bram Stoker
0.894 3.85 Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? by Billy Crystal
0.894 4.43 Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941 by John Steinbeck
0.893 3.8 Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
0.893 3.97 Misery by Stephen King
0.891 4.01 Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.889 4.29 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
0.889 3.28 The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
0.888 3.8 Jawbreaker : The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda : A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander by Gary Berntsen
0.887 4.12 The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
0.887 3.96 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider
0.886 3.73 See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
0.886 3.75 Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
0.885 4.27 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
0.885 4.05 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
0.884 3.74 Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
0.883 4.16 Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
0.882 3.96 The Physiology of Taste or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
0.881 4.27 Dune by Frank Herbert
0.88 4.15 The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
0.878 4.31 The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild
0.878 4.33 The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
0.875 3.87 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
0.873 3.66 The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
0.872 3.26 A Fine Romance by Candice Bergen
0.87 3.83 The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
0.87 3.81 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
0.869 3.92 Parallel Worlds : A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
0.869 3.9 Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
0.868 3.67 The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings
0.867 3.93 The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
0.866 3.98 Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal
0.865 3.65 The Siege and Fall of Troy by Robert Graves
0.865 3.83 The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves
0.864 3.52 You Only Live Twice: James Bond Secret Agent 007 by Ian Fleming
0.862 3.82 An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair
0.861 4.19 Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
0.861 3.9 Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
0.86 4.52 The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
0.858 3.82 The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer
0.858 4.17 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
0.857 3.96 The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 1 (1931-1934) by Anaïs Nin
0.856 4.34 Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost
0.854 4.04 Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
0.854 3.79 On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
0.853 3.98 England Under the Tudors by G. R. Elton
0.853 4.23 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
0.853 3.91 A Hero of Our Time by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
0.852 3.9 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
0.85 3.73 A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
0.85 4.51 Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
0.849 4 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
0.848 3.63 Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael F. Scheuer
0.848 3.67 My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
0.848 3.73 Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy
0.848 4.06 Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
0.848 3.73 The Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross
0.847 3.91 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
0.847 4.31 Little Women / Good Wives / Little Men / Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
0.846 3.7 The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss
0.846 3.47 Medieval People by Eileen Power
0.845 3.86 The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H. W. Brands
0.845 3.94 Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
0.845 3.56 Moonraker by Ian Fleming
0.844 4.19 The Nightingale's Song by Robert Timberg
0.844 3.5 The Best After-Dinner Stories by Tim Heald
0.843 4.27 Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
0.841 3.65 The War Within by Bob Woodward
0.84 4.15 Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
0.839 4.11 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
0.839 4.36 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
0.839 3.87 Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
0.838 3.99 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
0.837 4.11 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
0.837 3.76 From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
0.836 4.22 Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
0.836 3.96 Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.836 3.95 As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
0.835 3.87 The English Language by Robert Burchfield
0.835 3.6 Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
0.834 3.87 Michelangelo by Howard Hibbard
0.834 3.81 First Love by Ivan Turgenev
0.833 4 Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson
0.833 3.97 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
0.833 4.06 John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962 by John Steinbeck
0.833 4.37 Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal
0.832 3.85 Science: A History by John Gribbin
0.832 3.93 The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
0.831 3.69 In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara
0.831 4.26 The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
0.831 3.57 Doctor No by Ian Fleming
0.83 4.17 Street Without Joy by Bernard B. Fall
0.83 4.26 Collected Writings: Common Sense, The Crisis, and Other Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
0.829 4.04 History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
0.828 4.05 Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
0.827 3.92 Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M. Gates
0.825 4.02 Children of the Arbat by Anatolij Rybakow
0.825 3.98 The Berlin Diaries by Marie Wassiltschikow
0.825 3.82 A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain
0.824 3.87 The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov
0.824 4.17 A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.823 3.5 Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin
0.823 3.99 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
0.823 3.97 The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
0.821 3.44 Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
0.82 4.2 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.818 4.08 The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
0.816 4.02 The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson
0.814 3.89 After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh
0.813 4.29 Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
0.811 4 Journals: 1952-2000 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
0.809 4.09 The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 by Steven Runciman
0.809 4.08 Pompeii: The Life of A Roman Town by Mary Beard
0.809 3.96 Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
0.809 4 The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir by Joseph Wilson
0.808 3.98 Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
0.807 3.99 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
0.806 4.14 America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
0.805 4.09 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.805 4.34 Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.805 4.21 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.804 3.74 The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
0.804 3.99 Jesus Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman
0.804 4.17 The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin / Assassin's Quest) by Robin Hobb
0.798 4.04 A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
0.795 4.18 Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
0.794 4.1 Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
0.791 3.75 The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
0.787 4.13 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
0.785 4.22 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
0.784 4.32 JFK and the Unspeakable : Why he died and why it matters by James W. Douglass
0.784 4.51 Thurber: Writings and Drawings by James Thurber
0.783 4.39 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
0.782 4.14 Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
0.781 4.32 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
0.78 4.39 Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky
0.78 3.32 A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant
0.779 3.73 Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss
0.777 4.02 Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
0.776 3.67 Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor
0.775 4.35 The Wrinkle in Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
0.772 4.3 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
0.772 4.15 Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
0.771 3.81 Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
0.77 3.93 Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
0.767 4.1 Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
0.765 4.26 The Second World War by Antony Beevor
0.764 3.86 God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
0.763 4.02 Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
0.763 4 Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. Fortey
0.762 3.71 The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
0.761 3.47 The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
0.759 4.08 America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich
0.756 4 Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
0.754 3.93 Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
0.754 3.69 A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo
0.754 4.18 Albert Camus: The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
0.753 4.02 A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies by James Bamford
0.753 3.92 Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
0.752 4.31 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
0.751 4.28 Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
0.749 4.16 John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever
0.749 4.3 The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
0.748 3.8 Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer
0.747 4.05 The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs
0.747 3.9 Memoirs of a British Agent by Sir Robert Bruce Lockart
0.747 4.03 Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
0.746 3.99 Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William T. Sherman
0.742 3.86 Mission to Tashkent by F. M. Bailey
0.74 4.36 Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings by Dashiell Hammett
0.74 3.98 House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll
0.738 4.12 Berlin: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor
0.736 4.1 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
0.736 3.67 Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham
0.735 4.18 The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.733 3.95 The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert Fisk by Robert Fisk
0.733 3.66 Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron
0.73 3.47 Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf
0.728 3.72 Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
0.727 4.29 Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
0.719 4.25 Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
0.718 4.47 Mississippi Writings: Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Huckleberry Finn / Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
0.714 4.57 Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens
0.713 4.2 Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
0.712 3.83 Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News by Dan Rather
0.71 3.78 Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
0.709 4.33 Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
0.709 4.23 The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
0.703 4.08 Democracy/Esther/Mont Saint Michel and Chartres/The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
0.702 3.77 Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein
0.701 4.11 Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard
0.698 3.79 Thomas Becket by Frank Barlow
0.697 4.08 The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
0.697 3.99 Ill Met by Moonlight : The Abduction of General Kreipe by W. Stanley Moss
0.692 3.96 Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
0.687 4.14 Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
0.686 4.44 Cannery Row | East of Eden | The Moon is Down | The Pearl by John Steinbeck
0.685 4.46 A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
0.68 4.63 Stalin, Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
0.678 4.09 Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh
0.676 4.3 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
0.675 4.6 Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
0.671 4.29 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
0.671 4.08 Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
0.67 4.49 Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / The Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
0.662 3.94 Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid
0.66 4.35 How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
0.659 4.55 Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.658 4.2 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen
0.656 3.78 Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes by Christopher Hibbert
0.652 4.5 Cannery Row | East of Eden | Grapes of Wrath | The Moon is Down | Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.652 4.21 Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
0.651 4.58 Poe: Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
0.648 4.27 War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
0.638 4.31 Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
0.634 4.14 And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
0.633 4.38 Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides by Christian G. Appy
0.631 4.43 The History of Rome : from the foundation of the city to the sole rule of Julius Caesar by Theodor Mommsen
0.629 4.21 The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
0.627 4.48 The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
0.626 4.46 This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles
0.625 4.16 Destiny and Power The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
0.614 3.68 Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero
0.611 4.63 Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
0.607 4.45 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
0.6 4.32 Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
0.598 3.75 Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin
0.593 4.56 The Stanley Kubrick Archives by Alison Castle
0.591 4.35 Russian Tattoo: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova
0.575 4.02 The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden
0.569 3.84 W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney by W. B. Yeats
0.561 3.86 William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England by David C. Douglas
0.559 4.39 Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
0.558 4.37 Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours by Willa Cather
0.551 4.55 Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
0.548 4.05 Cities and Civilisations by Christopher Hibbert
0.531 4.4 Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings