Controversial Books for josiemryan

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
1.304 3.8 Catholicism by Richard P. McBrien
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.14 3.37 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling
1.14 3.99 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
1.139 3.91 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
1.138 3.1 The Virtuoso by Margriet De Moor
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.087 2.98 The Ice-Cream Makers by Ernest van der Kwast
1.087 3.4 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
1.087 3.6 Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.054 3.85 The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton
1.05 3.48 The Sea by John Banville
1.05 3.82 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1.03 3.85 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
1.029 3.9 The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell
1.013 3.44 The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
1.011 4.17 Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church by United States Conference ...
1.01 4.17 Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts
1.009 3.92 The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by Anonymous
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.006 3.67 My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began in the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues by Mahtob Mahmoody
1.004 3.88 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1.004 3.72 It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
1.003 4.01 Possession by A.S. Byatt
1.003 3.41 Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less by Jamie Oliver
1.001 3.87 The Republic by Plato
1 3.7 Exploits of the Chalet Girls by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.998 3.74 What Good are the Arts? by John Carey
0.998 3.48 The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit by Shirley MacLaine
0.998 3.46 The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
0.995 3.76 Island by Aldous Huxley
0.993 4.08 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
0.992 3.78 The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.99 3.93 Crossing the Threshold of Hope by John Paul II
0.988 3.41 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
0.988 3.89 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.982 3.35 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
0.977 3.66 The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
0.976 3.55 All the World's Mornings by Pascal Quignard
0.971 3.49 Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth
0.966 4.12 Reading the Old Testament an introduction by Lawrence Boadt by Lawrence Boadt
0.965 4.09 Be Here Now by Ram Dass
0.964 3.97 The Five Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
0.962 3.87 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0.962 3.88 Halliwell's Film Video and DVD Guide by Leslie Halliwell
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.957 3.25 The Shadow of the Sun by A.S. Byatt
0.955 4.04 A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.952 3.82 The Course of Love by Alain De Botton
0.949 3.6 The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
0.949 3.9 The Cow Who Fell in the Canal by Phyllis Krasilovsky
0.944 3.95 Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
0.942 4.21 Anastasia's Album: The Last Tsar's Youngest Daughter Tells Her Own Story by Hugh Brewster
0.937 3.96 Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
0.936 4.27 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.935 3.85 3 Plays: Wasps / Women at the Thesmophoria / Frogs by Aristophanes
0.935 3.79 Knielen op een bed violen by Jan Siebelink
0.932 4.18 When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
0.931 3.75 The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
0.927 3.36 Gijp by Michel van Egmond
0.927 4.08 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
0.926 3.64 Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver
0.923 4.17 The Seth Material by Jane Roberts
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.52 The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
0.921 3.88 The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
0.92 3.63 The Black Tulip by Alexandre père Dumas
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.919 3.56 Angels & Insects by A.S. Byatt
0.918 3.35 The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
0.918 3.4 The Dinner by Herman Koch
0.918 3.83 Illywhacker by Peter Carey
0.917 3.88 Still Life by A.S. Byatt
0.915 3.98 The Greek Myths: Complete Edition by Robert Graves
0.915 4.15 Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation by Andrew Pettegree
0.913 3.43 Foe by J. M. Coetzee
0.913 4.05 Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
0.913 3.9 The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk
0.913 4.17 Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
0.908 4.28 Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
0.907 3.72 Himalaya by Michael Palin
0.907 3.92 Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
0.907 4.17 Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
0.906 3.52 Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
0.906 3.53 The Wreck of the Batavia by Simon Leys
0.906 4.05 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
0.905 3.58 Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
0.904 4.07 Emma by Jane Austen
0.903 3.67 The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
0.902 4.26 The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
0.9 3.37 The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
0.899 3.69 How Language Works by David Crystal
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.898 3.66 Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
0.897 3.91 Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
0.897 3.89 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
0.895 3.99 The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus
0.894 3.73 Murder and Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood
0.894 3.9 3 Plays: Alcestis / Hippolytus / Iphigenia in Taurus by Euripides
0.888 3.72 Ballet Shoes for Anna by Noel Streatfeild
0.886 3.72 A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia by Thomas Keneally
0.884 3.89 The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
0.882 4.23 The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
0.881 3.96 The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
0.875 4.1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.875 4.21 Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.875 3.73 The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes
0.874 3.56 Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
0.873 4.26 The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé by Oscar Wilde
0.872 4.18 The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.87 4.36 The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
0.861 3.86 The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
0.859 4.06 White Boots by Noel Streatfeild
0.857 3.89 Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
0.856 4.23 Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
0.856 3.94 The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
0.855 4.17 The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
0.852 4.04 The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
0.851 3.71 The Penguin Dictionary of Saints by Donald Attwater
0.849 3.92 Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
0.848 4.06 A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
0.847 3.75 Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
0.847 3.95 Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
0.847 3.26 The Undutchables: An Observation of the Netherlands, Its Culture And Its Inhabitants by Colin White
0.846 3.56 Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood
0.846 3.77 The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
0.844 3.5 Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
0.843 3.84 Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino
0.843 3.87 3 Plays: Acharnians / Clouds / Lysistrata by Aristophanes
0.842 4.4 Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné
0.842 3.86 Bill's Food by Bill Granger
0.841 3.95 Jamie's Italy by Jamie Oliver
0.837 3.99 The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky
0.835 3.5 Wind / Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
0.833 4.18 Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.832 4.06 Vintage: The Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson
0.832 4.32 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
0.832 3.9 The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
0.831 3.97 The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George
0.831 4.07 The Trials of Life by David Attenborough
0.83 4.18 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
0.827 3.9 The Highland Twins at the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.827 4.03 The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
0.825 3.39 Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
0.824 4.18 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
0.824 4.27 The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
0.824 4.15 A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.823 3.7 Murder in the Dark by Kerry Greenwood
0.822 3.75 Testament: The Bible and History by John Romer
0.821 3.8 A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
0.821 4.34 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
0.82 3.81 Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
0.818 3.66 These Are The Names by Tommy Wieringa
0.813 3.47 Two Old Men and a Baby: Or, How Hendrik and Evert Get Themselves into a Jam by Hendrik Groen
0.813 4.33 Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
0.812 3.66 Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard
0.812 4.13 Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde
0.812 4.41 Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
0.811 3.64 The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
0.81 3.83 The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
0.809 3.88 Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir
0.809 3.98 DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: Australia by DK
0.805 3.66 Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood
0.801 4.01 The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants by Aeschylus
0.799 3.16 Een mooie jonge vrouw by Tommy Wieringa
0.798 4.16 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
0.797 4.5 The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer
0.795 4.18 What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
0.793 3.58 Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood
0.792 3.68 The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
0.792 3.85 The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old by Hendrik Groen
0.786 3.77 Journey from Venice by Ruth Cracknell
0.786 4.19 Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
0.784 4.45 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
0.782 4.12 Stretching by Bob Anderson
0.78 3.81 The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
0.774 3.73 The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
0.774 3.93 The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters
0.77 4.12 The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age by Simon Schama
0.764 3.75 Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood
0.76 4.27 Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch
0.756 4.2 Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright
0.756 3.48 Lonely Planet : Korea by Robert Storey
0.747 3.79 Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood
0.747 4.11 Rumpole on Trial by John Mortimer
0.746 3.81 The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
0.744 3.85 Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.743 3.86 The Making of The African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind by Katharine Hepburn
0.741 4.33 The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
0.739 3.73 Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood
0.738 4.15 More About Paddington by Michael Bond
0.738 4.02 Rumpole and the Age of Miracles by John Mortimer
0.735 3.99 A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
0.735 3.7 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
0.735 4.1 The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
0.731 3.7 Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
0.727 3.72 The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
0.716 4.19 Great Housewives of Art by Sally Swain
0.714 3.86 Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.714 4.33 The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
0.706 4.14 Rumpole à la Carte by John Mortimer
0.7 4.23 A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
0.695 3.88 Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood
0.693 3.96 Rumpole for the Defence by John Mortimer
0.693 4.03 Rumpole and the Golden Thread by John Mortimer
0.69 3.69 The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa
0.684 3.97 A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeild
0.678 3.58 The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa
0.668 4.2 The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart Van Es
0.664 3.83 Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood
0.655 4.06 God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge
0.653 4.05 Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch
0.651 4.09 Rumpole's Last Case by John Mortimer
0.64 3.5 The Chalet School Triplets by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.636 3.83 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet by David Hill
0.584 4.4 Schubert's winter journey : anatomy of an obsession by Ian Bostridge
0.584 3.82 The Coming of Age of the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
0.584 3.91 On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 Years Old by Hendrik Groen
0.559 3.91 Spotless by Shannon Lush
0.542 4.32 It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir by Simon Fitzmaurice