Controversial Books for cosmia_

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
1.186 3.98 Personality Type: An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.163 3.48 The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
1.136 3.57 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.124 3.43 Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
1.11 4.05 Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim
1.083 3.56 The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships by Helen Palmer
1.083 3.45 The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others In Your Life by Helen Palmer
1.065 3.9 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.061 3.76 Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
1.045 3.94 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.044 3.55 Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
1.041 3.94 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
1.039 3.95 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.026 3.53 The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
1.021 4.09 Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
1.017 3.44 Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
1.015 4.08 On the Road : The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
1.013 4.1 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.013 3.89 Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.007 4.09 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.007 3.64 Bunny by Mona Awad
0.991 3.98 The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
0.99 3.78 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
0.988 3.92 The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.987 4 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
0.984 4.07 Psychological Types by C. G. Jung
0.984 3.95 The Castle by Franz Kafka
0.981 3.62 The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks
0.979 3.63 A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
0.976 3.8 Lysistrata by Aristophanes
0.966 4.01 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
0.958 3.86 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
0.956 3.8 Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
0.954 4.01 The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
0.95 3.85 Magyk by Angie Sage
0.946 4.06 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
0.945 3.88 Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
0.942 4.09 Nevada by Imogen Binnie
0.942 4.07 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
0.94 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 4.05 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.936 3.42 Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 3.84 The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
0.934 3.98 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.934 3.54 The Girls by Emma Cline
0.932 3.73 New Spring by Robert Jordan
0.932 3.95 The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
0.928 3.95 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.919 3.56 Angels & Insects by A. S. Byatt
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.917 3.75 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
0.917 4.1 American Gods: Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
0.914 3.99 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.91 3.85 Fables of Aesop by Aesop
0.905 3.78 A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
0.904 3.72 Affinity by Sarah Waters
0.9 3.87 Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.896 4.05 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.896 3.99 The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
0.896 4.14 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.895 3.74 The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor
0.895 4.12 Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
0.895 4.16 The Giver by Lois Lowry
0.893 4.05 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
0.892 4 The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
0.889 4.15 Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
0.888 4.01 The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
0.884 3.97 A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
0.883 4.16 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
0.881 4.27 Dune by Frank Herbert
0.879 4.2 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
0.872 3.74 Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman
0.871 4.04 A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.87 4.12 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 3.78 Fire and Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III by George R. R. Martin
0.857 4.05 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
0.856 4.25 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
0.853 4.02 The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.852 4.36 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
0.85 4.05 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
0.85 4.21 The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
0.846 4.02 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.844 4 Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
0.842 3.9 How Music Works by David Byrne
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.84 4.36 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.839 4.36 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
0.829 4.21 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
0.827 3.46 My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) by Mike McGonigal
0.826 3.43 Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan
0.825 4.33 The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
0.807 4.28 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
0.807 4.23 The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
0.804 4.14 The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
0.803 4.34 A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan
0.797 4.41 Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
0.797 4.06 Mort by Terry Pratchett
0.794 3.78 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
0.792 4.02 The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
0.792 4.28 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
0.787 4.28 The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
0.778 4.13 Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
0.77 4.28 Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan
0.769 4.28 Circe by Madeline Miller
0.763 4.09 The Classic Fairy Tales [Norton Critical Edition] by Maria Tatar
0.763 4.14 Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
0.758 4.21 The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
0.755 3.35 The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
0.749 4.12 Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
0.746 4.32 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
0.743 4.43 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
0.734 4.07 Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
0.725 4.39 Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
0.711 4.15 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
0.686 4.23 Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
0.648 4.61 Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
0.648 4.25 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
0.636 3.91 Conversations by César Aira
0.604 4.03 The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri