Controversial Books for djtrischler

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
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.171 3.38 Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.152 3.66 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
1.147 3.49 Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
1.128 3.4 The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom by Paulo Coelho
1.11 3.6 Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
1.101 3.41 Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
1.086 4.08 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.063 3.63 Design as Art by Bruno Munari
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.05 3.64 The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.045 3.69 A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
1.042 3.47 The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
1.036 4.1 Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.032 3.59 Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 4.1 The Imitation of Christ by Thomas : von Kempen
1.021 3.87 The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by F. A. Hayek
1.021 3.78 I Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
0.998 3.99 Paradise Lost by John Milton
0.993 3.78 The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas M. Nichols
0.988 3.93 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.974 3.59 The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
0.951 3.72 Normal People by Sally Rooney
0.947 4.13 The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
0.947 4.1 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
0.946 4.13 Renovation of the heart : putting on the character of Christ by Dallas Willard
0.944 3.99 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.939 4.01 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
0.938 4.11 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
0.938 3.74 The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
0.935 3.52 Artemis by Andy Weir
0.931 3.65 The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
0.926 3.52 Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
0.925 4.14 The River Why by David James Duncan
0.921 4.05 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.919 4.21 The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.911 4.01 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
0.905 4.09 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
0.903 3.94 The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
0.891 3.77 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
0.888 3.66 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
0.877 3.88 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
0.875 4.15 The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
0.875 3.84 The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.867 3.91 Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
0.866 3.92 The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
0.864 3.86 Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
0.857 4.16 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
0.855 3.85 A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
0.852 4.38 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.852 4.1 Citizenship Papers: Essays by Wendell Berry
0.844 4.2 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
0.818 4.07 Open: An Autobiography by André Agassi
0.818 4.25 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
0.818 4.28 The Martian by Andy Weir
0.815 3.04 Midas World by Frederik Pohl
0.805 4.09 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.798 4.02 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
0.797 3.75 Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi
0.793 4.27 Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul
0.792 4.26 Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
0.789 4.46 Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical by Timothy Keller
0.788 4.09 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
0.783 4.08 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
0.778 4.06 Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
0.775 4.25 The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
0.756 4.45 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.752 4.3 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
0.75 4.41 The Poetry and Prose of William Blake {Erdman, ed.} by William Blake
0.75 4.11 Humanity : a moral history of the twentieth century by Jonathan Glover
0.739 4.22 You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith
0.732 3.93 Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
0.706 4.09 Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
0.679 4.46 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
0.656 4.3 The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
0.649 4.36 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
0.629 4.59 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
0.601 4.22 Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller
0.592 4.31 Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop