Controversial Books for heff100

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
1.204 3.51 The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
1.192 3.31 Samson Agonistes by John Milton
1.186 3.14 Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.157 3.65 The Overcoat / The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
1.134 3.45 The Yips by Nicola Barker
1.128 3.79 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 2.75 Tomorrow by Graham Swift
1.117 3.2 The Gospel According to the son by Norman Mailer
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.112 3.16 The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
1.109 3.07 The Gathering by Anne Enright
1.097 3.69 Darkmans by Nicola Barker
1.087 3.02 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
1.078 3.76 Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
1.074 3.33 A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines
1.072 3.82 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
1.069 3.62 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.069 3.86 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.064 3.92 The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
1.062 3.33 Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
1.061 3.35 Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
1.056 3.71 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
1.053 2.89 Amnesia by Peter Carey
1.042 3.74 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.041 3.43 Volpone, or The Fox by Ben Jonson
1.04 3.78 Empty Space: A Haunting by M. John Harrison
1.04 3.74 The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.039 3.67 Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
1.037 3.42 Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
1.034 3.77 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.031 3.35 An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
1.031 3.07 The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.027 3.1 The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
1.027 3.15 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
1.025 3.18 The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
1.024 3.49 Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
1.023 3.43 Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus by Salley Vickers
1.021 3.69 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.75 Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
1.021 3.47 Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.65 The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
1.021 3.5 Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
1.019 3.52 The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
1.019 3.83 Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
1.019 3.95 Light Years by James Salter
1.017 3.39 Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture) by Douglas Coupland
1.016 3.22 Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.014 3.32 Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
1.012 3.59 Remainder by Tom McCarthy
1.012 3.48 The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
1.008 4.17 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 4.13 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.007 4.01 The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
1.007 3.79 The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
1.006 3.87 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.005 3.72 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
1.005 3.86 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.004 3.41 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
1.003 3.58 Agamemnon by Aeschylus
1.003 3.45 Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
1 3.85 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
0.999 3.24 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
0.999 3.83 Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
0.998 3.15 We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
0.997 3.85 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
0.997 3.76 The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
0.997 3.99 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.996 3.67 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
0.995 3.14 The Red House by Mark Haddon
0.994 3.15 In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk
0.994 3.86 Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
0.992 3.69 Paradise Regained by John Milton
0.992 3.77 In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
0.992 3.39 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
0.989 3.6 Couples by John Updike
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.988 4.01 Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James
0.988 3.4 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
0.987 3.51 Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.985 3.56 The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
0.985 3.66 10:04 by Ben Lerner
0.985 3.41 Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.984 3.7 High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
0.984 3.87 The Magus by John Fowles
0.984 4.03 Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
0.982 3.22 The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
0.982 3.47 The Infatuations by Javier Marías
0.981 3.25 His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
0.981 3.35 Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
0.981 3.09 Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
0.98 3.57 Salomé by Oscar Wilde
0.979 3.9 The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
0.978 3.56 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.978 3.92 Valis by Philip K. Dick
0.977 3.56 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
0.976 4 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
0.973 3.37 Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
0.973 3.61 Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn
0.973 3.65 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
0.968 3.61 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
0.968 3.74 A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
0.965 3.65 May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
0.965 3.67 The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson
0.964 3.62 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.963 3.78 Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
0.963 3.88 The Peripheral by William Gibson
0.962 3.67 Ignorance by Milan Kundera
0.961 3.78 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet
0.961 3.58 Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.959 3.77 Richard II by William Shakespeare
0.958 3.8 Last Night by James Salter
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.957 3.64 The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
0.957 3.7 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.956 3.68 Osama by Lavie Tidhar
0.955 3.93 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
0.955 3.67 Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A. S. Byatt
0.955 3.64 Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel
0.954 3.54 Slowness by Milan Kundera
0.954 3.43 All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
0.954 3.56 Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
0.953 3.75 Lush Life by Richard Price
0.952 3.28 Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
0.95 3.85 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.95 3.26 Point Omega by Don DeLillo
0.95 3.38 Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.949 3.25 Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
0.948 3.58 A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
0.946 3.87 Reamde by Neal Stephenson
0.945 3.64 Canada by Richard Ford
0.944 3.26 The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
0.944 4.12 De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
0.943 3.7 Bad News by Edward St. Aubyn
0.942 3.96 Footsteps: adventures of a romantic biographer by Richard Holmes
0.942 3.8 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
0.941 3.73 The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
0.941 3.9 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
0.94 3.53 Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature by Marcus du Sautoy
0.94 3.97 Othello by William Shakespeare
0.94 4.01 The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.939 3.8 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
0.939 3.47 Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.936 3.58 Mao II by Don DeLillo
0.936 3.95 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
0.936 3.4 Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins
0.935 3.37 A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
0.935 3.59 The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
0.935 3.29 Solar by Ian McEwan
0.935 3.77 Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
0.935 3.33 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
0.933 3.73 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
0.932 4.19 Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh
0.932 3.2 All for Love by John Dryden
0.931 3.9 The Counterlife by Philip Roth
0.931 3.97 The Concept of Law by H. L. A. Hart
0.93 3.89 The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
0.93 3.53 Spook Country by William Gibson
0.93 3.88 Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
0.93 3.55 Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
0.927 3.52 That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
0.927 3.86 All That Man Is by David Szalay
0.926 3.65 Submission by Michel Houellebecq
0.925 3.92 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
0.924 3.88 Solaris by Stanisław Lem
0.923 3.98 Climbers by M. John Harrison
0.922 4.01 Days without End by Sebastian Barry
0.922 3.44 Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
0.921 3.95 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
0.921 4.24 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.921 3.58 Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
0.921 3.96 Le Morte d'Arthur [Norton Critical Edition] by Thomas Malory
0.92 3.56 Purity by Jonathan Franzen
0.92 3.52 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
0.919 3.73 Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story (Vintage International) by Julian Barnes
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.919 3.74 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
0.918 3.41 The Dinner by Herman Koch
0.918 3.49 Falconer by John Cheever
0.918 3.03 The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
0.916 3.88 The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
0.914 3.99 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
0.914 3.45 Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard
0.913 3.73 The Names by Don DeLillo
0.913 4 The Alamut Ambush by Anthony Price
0.912 3.97 Among Others by Jo Walton
0.911 3.98 The Terror by Dan Simmons
0.91 3.55 The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
0.91 3.76 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
0.909 3.89 The Fall by Albert Camus
0.909 3.67 The Maids by Jean Genet
0.909 3.58 Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
0.909 4.14 From Hell by Alan Moore
0.908 2.97 Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
0.908 3.65 Outline by Rachel Cusk
0.907 3.58 Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.906 3.91 Some Hope: A Trilogy by Edward St. Aubyn
0.906 3.19 Decoded by Mai Jia
0.906 4.17 Anathem by Neal Stephenson
0.906 4.05 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
0.906 3.83 Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
0.905 3.83 The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
0.904 3.77 The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch
0.903 3.8 The Prestige by Christopher Priest
0.903 3.81 James Joyce's Ulysses: a study by Stuart Gilbert
0.902 3.6 The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
0.901 4.17 Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
0.901 3.64 Everyman by Philip Roth
0.901 3.31 Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
0.9 3.52 Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
0.9 3.69 On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
0.899 3.37 The Summons by John Grisham
0.899 3.54 The Ghost by Robert Harris
0.899 3.36 King John by William Shakespeare
0.898 3.96 Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
0.898 3.55 Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.898 3.92 1Q84 Book 1 by Haruki Murakami
0.898 3.83 Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski
0.897 3.54 The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
0.895 3.99 The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus
0.894 3.96 Dracula by Bram Stoker
0.894 3.63 A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.894 3.56 The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
0.894 3.82 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
0.894 4.08 Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
0.893 3.97 Exile by Richard North Patterson
0.893 3.95 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
0.893 3.77 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
0.891 4.27 The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
0.891 4.16 Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.89 4.01 The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
0.89 3.86 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
0.89 3.8 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
0.889 3.28 The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
0.889 3.95 Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
0.889 3.59 Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
0.888 3.47 A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
0.888 3.99 The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
0.888 3.74 Animal's People by Indra Sinha
0.887 3.46 The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams
0.887 4.15 Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
0.886 3.61 The Night Manager by John le Carré
0.886 4.02 The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
0.885 3.58 Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
0.884 3.97 A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
0.883 3.52 Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
0.882 3.49 Crime: A Novel by Irvine Welsh
0.882 3.9 1Q84 Book 2 by Haruki Murakami
0.881 4.09 The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
0.879 3.42 The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis
0.878 3.51 Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
0.878 3.87 The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
0.878 3.91 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
0.878 3.91 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
0.877 3.66 The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
0.876 3.86 Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
0.876 4.08 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
0.874 3.89 Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
0.874 4.53 War Music: A Version of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue
0.874 3.54 The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott
0.873 3.53 Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn
0.873 3.34 The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
0.872 3.78 Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
0.872 3.93 Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
0.872 3.59 Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
0.871 4.04 A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
0.871 3.41 The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
0.869 3.62 The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
0.869 3.69 Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
0.868 3.53 The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
0.868 3.67 Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
0.867 4.06 Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
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
0.866 3.44 Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
0.866 3.42 Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
0.865 3.83 Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
0.865 3.65 Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
0.864 4.09 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
0.864 3.78 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
0.864 3.52 You Only Live Twice: James Bond Secret Agent 007 by Ian Fleming
0.864 3.66 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
0.864 3.61 Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
0.864 3.7 What's So Funny? by Donald E. Westlake
0.864 3.26 Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
0.862 3.62 After Dark by Haruki Murakami
0.862 3.76 The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
0.862 3.68 Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.861 3.69 Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
0.861 3.56 The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
0.861 3.41 Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
0.86 3.84 Zero History by William Gibson
0.86 4.34 Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
0.86 3.71 Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
0.86 3.49 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
0.858 3.57 Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson
0.858 3.8 Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
0.857 3.49 White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
0.857 3.76 Incendiary by Chris Cleave
0.856 3.46 The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
0.856 3.92 The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
0.856 3.8 The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
0.855 4.21 Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
0.855 4.02 Colonel Butler's Wolf by Anthony Price
0.855 4.17 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
0.855 3.51 The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
0.853 3.51 The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
0.853 3.87 Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
0.853 3.86 How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
0.852 3.52 The Believers by Zoë Heller
0.852 4.07 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
0.852 4.36 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
0.852 3.9 A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
0.851 3.94 HHhH by Laurent Binet
0.851 3.93 A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
0.851 4.21 The Dream Songs by John Berryman
0.85 3.53 The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
0.849 3.83 The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
0.848 3.79 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
0.847 3.81 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
0.846 4.02 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.846 3.69 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
0.845 3.56 Moonraker by Ian Fleming
0.844 3.57 The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
0.844 3.79 Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
0.844 3.69 The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo
0.843 4 Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux
0.843 3.84 Breakout by Richard Stark
0.843 4.22 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
0.842 4.17 But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
0.841 3.67 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
0.84 3.83 Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
0.839 4.01 Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
0.839 4.12 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
0.838 3.85 Conclave by Robert Harris
0.837 3.32 Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley
0.837 3.76 From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
0.836 3.8 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
0.836 3.26 The Fear Index by Robert Harris
0.835 3.92 Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
0.835 3.6 Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
0.834 3.99 Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.833 3.8 Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva
0.832 3.86 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
0.832 3.8 My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
0.832 3.74 The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
0.831 3.64 Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
0.831 3.57 Doctor No by Ian Fleming
0.83 4.07 How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt
0.829 3.43 The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
0.829 3.87 Winterfair Gifts [novella] by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.828 3.95 The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
0.826 3.92 The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
0.826 3.98 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James S. Shapiro
0.825 4.33 The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
0.825 4.14 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
0.825 3.88 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
0.824 3.52 Thunderball by Ian Fleming
0.823 3.64 King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
0.822 3.95 Thin Air by Michelle Paver
0.821 3.44 Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
0.821 3.9 The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price
0.819 4.49 The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.818 3.82 Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
0.817 4.24 Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
0.817 4.11 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.816 3.9 In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
0.816 3.74 Updike by Adam Begley
0.816 3.84 Persuader by Lee Child
0.815 4 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
0.814 3.71 Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
0.813 4.01 The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
0.813 2.93 The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi
0.813 3.76 Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
0.812 3.54 The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography by Matt Rendell
0.812 3.85 Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
0.811 3.74 Make Me by Lee Child
0.811 3.97 The North Water by Ian McGuire
0.81 3.79 A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
0.809 4.01 My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård
0.808 3.98 Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
0.807 3.75 Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
0.807 3.58 The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
0.806 4.02 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.803 3.94 Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
0.803 3.91 The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French
0.801 3.77 Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd
0.801 4.15 The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre by Peter Brook
0.801 4.07 The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
0.8 3.83 A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
0.799 4.18 Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.797 4.16 Smiley's People by John le Carré
0.797 4.31 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
0.796 2.99 A Dead Hand by Paul Theroux
0.796 4.08 Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston
0.795 3.74 Ask the Parrot by Richard Stark
0.795 4.05 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
0.794 3.67 Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
0.793 3.94 The Damned Utd by David Peace
0.793 4.11 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
0.793 3.94 Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
0.792 4.07 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
0.788 3.67 Transcription by Kate Atkinson
0.788 4 Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
0.787 3.75 Solo Faces by James Salter
0.787 4.41 The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
0.787 3.75 Fraud by Anita Brookner
0.785 3.64 Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
0.784 3.73 Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler
0.783 4.38 A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.783 3.92 The Comedians by Graham Greene
0.782 4.14 The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.781 3.82 The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
0.78 4.53 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.779 4.2 My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård
0.778 4.2 A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
0.777 3.93 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
0.777 3.48 The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
0.776 4.33 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
0.776 2.83 The Hidden by Tobias Hill
0.774 3.74 A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi
0.774 3.87 The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
0.774 3.33 Jem by Frederik Pohl
0.772 3.44 The Heart Broke In by James Meek
0.771 3.97 One Shot by Lee Child
0.77 3.9 Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
0.77 3.52 Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
0.766 4 The Masters by C.P. Snow
0.766 3.8 The Children Act by Ian McEwan
0.764 3.89 Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
0.764 4.09 The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.764 3.51 Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
0.761 4.08 The Gambler/Bobok/A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.758 4.04 Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.757 3.74 Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max
0.755 4.2 Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
0.755 3.24 James Bond 007: Colonel Sun by Robert Markham
0.755 4.48 The Complete Poems and Plays by T. S. Eliot
0.754 3.89 Firebreak by Richard Stark
0.754 3.95 Dirty Money by Richard Stark
0.754 4.24 Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.751 3.91 The Hunters by James Salter
0.751 3.93 Experience by Martin Amis
0.75 4.16 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
0.748 3.67 Men in Space by Tom McCarthy
0.746 4.21 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
0.746 4.32 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
0.743 4.04 Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
0.743 4.18 Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Ethan of Athos / Labyrinth / Cetaganda) by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.743 4.43 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
0.742 4.33 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
0.742 4.03 The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
0.738 3.91 Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman
0.735 4.16 In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
0.728 3.97 D-day : the Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
0.726 4.35 Four Novels of the 1960s : The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick
0.726 4.04 At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
0.726 3.88 Stonemouth by Iain Banks
0.724 4.11 Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.722 4.22 Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.721 3.89 Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Malory
0.72 4.17 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
0.714 3.7 Ravel by Jean Echenoz
0.712 4 Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.712 3.58 An Agent of Deceit by Christopher Morgan Jones
0.71 4.26 The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
0.709 4.38 Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
0.708 4.12 A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
0.699 3.99 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
0.698 4.21 City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
0.694 3.78 Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
0.689 4.38 James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
0.687 3.9 Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar
0.679 3.93 The Bloody Red Baron {with Vampire Romance} by Kim Newman
0.676 3.83 The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
0.676 4.09 My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
0.675 4.43 Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
0.669 3.95 Comeback by Richard Stark
0.667 4.19 An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
0.66 4.32 Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Euripides
0.653 4.41 Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
0.65 3.88 Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter
0.645 3.75 Get Real by Donald E. Westlake
0.62 4.44 Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd
0.62 4.42 The King's Two Bodies by Ernst H. Kantorowicz
0.614 3.98 Flashfire by Richard Stark