Controversial Books for henrywuau

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
1.329 4.12 The Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV) by Anonymous
1.169 3.77 Bhagavad-Gītā as It Is by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
1.152 3.57 Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
1.121 4.03 Hamlet [Norton Critical Edition - New] by William Shakespeare
1.056 3.71 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
1.05 4 Abridged Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell
1.039 3.95 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
1.032 3.81 God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
1.023 3.84 The Origins and Development of the English Language by Thomas Pyles
1.012 3.81 The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.993 4.08 Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
0.981 3.85 Phaedra by Jean Racine
0.979 3.96 Henry V by William Shakespeare
0.969 3.94 Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé
0.965 3.54 You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene
0.963 3.98 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
0.958 3.93 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
0.949 3.96 A Course in Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged
0.948 4.05 King Lear by William Shakespeare
0.94 4.08 The Overstory by Richard Powers
0.939 4.01 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
0.937 4.05 The Dhammapada by Anonymous
0.933 3.73 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
0.926 4.11 The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
0.919 4.16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.919 3.94 De Officiis [Latin text] by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.917 4.07 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
0.916 3.71 Mencius by Mencius
0.913 3.93 New Selected Poems, 1957–1994 by Ted Hughes
0.911 3.55 The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James
0.908 3.92 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
0.906 3.98 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
0.904 4.1 Foucault by Gilles Deleuze
0.897 3.92 No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.895 3.62 In Light of India by Octavio Paz
0.888 3.75 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
0.884 3.52 Three Plays: The Father, Miss Julia, Easter by August Strindberg
0.881 3.85 Ohio by Stephen Markley
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.877 3.93 The Essential Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard
0.869 4.12 The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
0.864 3.9 Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
0.862 3.68 The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann
0.855 3.61 Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
0.85 3.73 A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
0.838 3.99 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
0.83 3.69 The End of Eddy: A Novel by Édouard Louis
0.811 3.74 Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
0.808 3.67 Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé
0.797 3.75 Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
0.797 3.98 In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth by J. P. Mallory
0.786 4.07 Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
0.779 3.87 The White Book by Han Kang
0.778 3.72 Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 by Ryusaku Tsunoda
0.769 4.07 Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
0.768 3.56 Essential Kanji by P. G. O'Neill
0.651 4.15 Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith