Controversial Books for larrybenfield

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
1.237 4.06 George Washington : Writings by George Washington
1.206 4.02 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.157 3.65 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
1.148 3.93 Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans / Tristessa / Lonesome Traveler / Journal Selections (Library of America) by Jack Kerouac
1.146 4.03 Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean
1.106 3.98 Main Street / Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
1.102 3.41 I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
1.097 3.73 The Ambassadors by Henry James
1.096 3.74 Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads by Richard Bertinet
1.09 3.88 Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America) by Eudora Welty
1.09 3.93 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi
1.089 3.86 White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler
1.087 3.89 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
1.085 4.12 The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha by Bruce M. Metzger
1.078 3.81 Sarah Orne Jewett : Novels and Stories : Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories & Sketches (Library of America) by Sarah Orne Jewett
1.073 3.55 My Venice and Other Essays by Donna Leon
1.069 3.81 The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook by Martha Stewart Living Magazine
1.066 3.93 The American Revolution, Writings from the War of Independence by John H. Rhodehamel
1.066 3.41 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
1.065 3.45 The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.054 3.9 Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook by Martha Hall Foose
1.054 3.62 Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
1.049 3.87 Collected Poems by Donald Justice
1.042 3.34 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
1.041 3.79 The James Beard Cookbook by James Beard
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.039 3.95 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
1.038 4 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
1.038 4.05 New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants by Molly O'Neill
1.036 3.57 The Dean and DeLuca Cookbook by David Rosengarten
1.033 4.06 Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson
1.032 4.08 The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It by Mark Twain
1.031 4.28 Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America) by Frederick Douglass
1.029 3.45 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1.024 4.05 Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind by Stephen Crane
1.02 3.75 A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes by David Tanis
1.017 3.78 The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
1.015 4.12 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
1.012 3.81 The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
1.008 3.34 Zone One by Colson Whitehead
1.007 3.93 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1.005 4.29 Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd by Herman Melville
1.005 3.6 The Married Man by Edmund White
1.002 3.9 The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.994 4.08 The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
0.993 3.86 American Studies by Mark Merlis
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.988 4.11 The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.987 4.04 Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker
0.986 4.34 Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum
0.986 4.31 France and England in North America, Vol. 1 by Francis Parkman
0.981 4.23 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
0.98 3.95 Cooking from Quilt Country: hearty recipes from Amish and Mennonite kitchens by Marcia Adams
0.978 4.21 The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook by Niki Segnit
0.976 3.6 Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
0.976 3.99 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
0.976 4 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
0.975 3.92 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
0.975 4.53 Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2 by Mark Twain
0.974 3.57 The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
0.974 4.21 Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
0.973 3.44 A Shared Range by Andrew Grey
0.973 3.72 Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
0.973 3.99 Home by Marilynne Robinson
0.97 3.84 Novels: 1871-1880 by Henry James
0.97 3.58 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.97 4.38 Novels: 1881-1886 by Henry James
0.969 4.04 Vegetables, Revised: The Most Authoritative Guide to Buying, Preparing, and Cooking, with More than 300 Recipes by James Peterson
0.969 3.73 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir by Anna Quindlen
0.968 4.16 The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
0.968 3.72 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.965 4 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region by Elbert Luther Little
0.959 3.66 While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
0.956 4.27 H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) by H. P. Lovecraft
0.956 4.06 Collected Poems by James Merrill
0.955 3.65 The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen by Jeff Smith
0.954 4.07 Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer
0.954 3.83 Novels and Social Writings: The People of the Abyss / The Road / The Iron Heel / Martin Eden / John Barleycorn by Jack London
0.953 3.89 Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
0.95 4.14 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler
0.946 3.52 The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.945 3.56 A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
0.945 4.09 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
0.945 3.64 Canada by Richard Ford
0.944 4.16 Collected Novels: Fanshawe/The Scarlet Letter/The House of the Seven Gables/The Blithedale Romance/The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.944 3.89 Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
0.94 4.08 The Overstory by Richard Powers
0.94 3.8 Building Construction Illustrated by Francis D. K. Ching
0.939 3.89 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.938 3.65 The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
0.935 4.28 Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon by William Faulkner
0.934 4.27 Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
0.934 3.95 The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso
0.934 3.95 A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
0.933 3.63 The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
0.932 4.23 The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
0.931 3.49 Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
0.93 3.92 Simple French Food by Richard Olney
0.928 3.79 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub
0.927 3.73 The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
0.927 3.44 Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes
0.924 3.91 Big Book of Knitting by Katharina Buss
0.924 3.74 Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
0.924 3.81 Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer
0.921 3.95 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
0.92 4.11 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.918 3.93 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
0.918 3.99 Atlas of World History, Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution by Hermann Kinder
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.917 3.92 Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah Lohman
0.915 3.88 Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
0.915 4.01 How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson
0.915 4.28 Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves
0.914 4.17 Tartine Bread by Chad Robertson
0.912 3.9 Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking by Julia Child
0.91 4.03 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
0.91 3.78 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0.91 4.14 The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham
0.91 3.71 The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
0.908 3.52 The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
0.908 4.12 Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
0.907 4.14 How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
0.904 3.78 Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
0.903 4.21 The HarperCollins Study Bible by Wayne A. Meeks
0.901 3.76 The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Julee Rosso
0.898 3.92 Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making by James Peterson
0.897 3.77 The Woman in the Window by Daniel Mallory
0.897 3.64 Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
0.896 4.28 Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
0.896 4.28 Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories (Library of America) by Zora Neale Hurston
0.896 4.03 U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
0.895 3.36 The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell
0.895 3.87 Close Range by Annie Proulx
0.895 4.05 Questions about Angels: Poems by Billy Collins
0.895 3.9 Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman
0.894 4.43 Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941 by John Steinbeck
0.893 4 Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes
0.893 3.98 Chez Panisse Cooking by Paul Bertolli
0.892 3.68 The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.89 4.01 The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
0.888 3.96 Good Housekeeping Cookery Book: The Cook's Classic Companion by Good Housekeeping Institute
0.887 4.29 BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes by Shirley O. Corriher
0.886 4.29 All-American Poem (APR Honickman 1st Book Award) by Matthew Dickman
0.885 4.27 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
0.884 4.3 Thai Food by David Thompson
0.883 3.94 The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso
0.883 4.08 Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
0.882 3.96 The Physiology of Taste or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
0.881 4.03 Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
0.879 3.9 Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
0.879 3.8 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
0.878 4.38 Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition by Merriam-Webster
0.877 4.03 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
0.875 3.63 The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
0.872 3.79 The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Every Day by Martha Stewart
0.87 3.88 The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
0.869 3.78 Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
0.869 4.18 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.868 3.87 Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
0.868 3.86 Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology by Adam Gopnik
0.866 4.01 Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers Markets by Deborah Madison
0.866 4.1 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
0.865 4.41 Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet by William Faulkner
0.863 3.74 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
0.863 4.03 Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters
0.863 4.22 The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
0.862 3.96 The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
0.862 3.64 The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
0.861 3.53 Watergate by Thomas Mallon
0.861 4.19 Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper / A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
0.861 4.04 The Italian Baker by Carol Field
0.86 3.8 Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry by Liana Krissoff
0.859 3.52 Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne
0.859 4.18 Italian Food by Elizabeth David
0.858 4.22 The Family of Man by Edward Steichen
0.857 4.01 The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman
0.857 4.11 Modernist Cuisine at Home by Nathan Myhrvold
0.856 4.34 Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost
0.854 4 Selected Poems by Mark Strand
0.852 3.85 So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
0.852 4.38 The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper
0.852 3.89 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
0.851 4.39 Whitman: Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman
0.851 4.42 The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
0.851 3.79 Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
0.85 4.51 Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
0.849 4.39 The Oxford Spanish Dictionary by Beatriz Galimberti Jarman
0.849 4.5 Crush by Richard Siken
0.848 4.1 What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water - Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers by Andrew Dornenburg
0.848 3.95 The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
0.847 4.31 Little Women / Good Wives / Little Men / Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
0.847 4.34 Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
0.846 4.12 The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant by Judy Rodgers
0.846 4.32 Splendid Soups: Recipes and Master Techniques for Making the World's Best Soups by James Peterson
0.844 4.09 Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
0.843 4.02 Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain
0.842 4.01 The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur
0.842 4.4 Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné
0.842 4.03 The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
0.842 4.08 Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi by Herman Melville
0.842 4.32 The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg
0.842 3.9 Roast Chicken And Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson
0.84 4.07 Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert
0.839 4.06 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
0.838 4.4 Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s by Robert Polito
0.837 3.83 Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
0.835 3.89 Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook by Martha Stewart
0.835 4.07 Zuckerman Bound (The Ghost Writer / Zuckerman Unbound / The Anatomy Lesson / The Prague Orgy) by Philip Roth
0.835 3.42 Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith
0.835 4.25 The Random House Dictionary by Jess Stein
0.834 3.99 New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne
0.834 4.35 The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
0.834 4.22 Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey through Southeast Asia by Jeffrey Alford
0.833 4.06 John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962 by John Steinbeck
0.833 4.14 Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.832 4.34 The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
0.832 3.92 Atlas of World History, Volume 2: From the French Revolution to the Present by Hermann Kinder
0.83 4.26 Collected Writings: Common Sense, The Crisis, and Other Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
0.829 3.92 The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
0.829 4.08 Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
0.828 3.96 Architectural Graphics by Francis D. K. Ching
0.827 4.03 The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb by R. Crumb
0.827 4.31 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand
0.826 4.33 The New Food Lover's Companion by Sharon Tyler Herbst
0.825 3.79 Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer
0.824 3.5 Perfection Salad : Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century by Laura Shapiro
0.823 4.02 The Continuous Life : poems by Mark Strand
0.82 4.1 How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman
0.819 3.73 Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
0.817 4.24 Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
0.812 4.1 Chez Panisse Fruit by Alice Waters
0.811 4.38 Collins-Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary by Beryl T. Atkins
0.811 4.45 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
0.811 4 China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
0.811 3.87 Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas by Brad Thomas Parsons
0.809 4.15 Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home by Julia Child
0.809 4.23 Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook's Manifesto by Michael Ruhlman
0.809 4.31 The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
0.808 4.36 Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s by Robert Polito
0.806 3.75 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
0.806 4.46 Speeches and Writings: Volume 1: 1832-1858 by Abraham Lincoln
0.805 3.93 The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
0.805 4.34 Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.805 4.21 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.802 4.39 A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants by Christopher Brickell
0.802 3.39 The Future Dictionary of America by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.8 3.85 How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
0.8 4.34 The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
0.799 3.77 The Land of Steady Habits: A Novel by Ted Thompson
0.796 4.07 Complete Book of Home Preserving by Judi Kingry
0.794 4.24 From Julia Child's Kitchen by Julia Child
0.794 4.18 Prejudices: A Selection by H. L. Mencken
0.794 4.4 The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
0.791 3.71 Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
0.79 4.14 An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David
0.79 4.16 My Life in France by Julia Child
0.789 4.29 Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen by Paul Prudhomme
0.788 3.52 Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater by Frank Bruni
0.788 4.31 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
0.788 4 Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
0.786 4.12 Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
0.786 4.45 A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
0.785 4.4 The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart
0.784 4.45 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
0.784 4.18 The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
0.784 4.51 Thurber: Writings and Drawings by James Thurber
0.783 3.87 American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps by Peter Straub
0.782 4.21 An Invitation to Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
0.781 4.01 There There by Tommy Orange
0.779 4.29 The Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal
0.779 4.45 Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby Dick by Herman Melville
0.777 4.14 The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
0.775 4.35 The Wrinkle in Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
0.775 3.79 The Massage Book by George Downing
0.773 4.37 The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff
0.771 4.34 Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.77 3.87 The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
0.769 4.35 Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed by Shirley O. Corriher
0.769 3.73 Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
0.768 4.26 The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
0.768 3.65 New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant by Moosewood Collective Staff
0.767 4.28 Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant
0.767 4.3 Joy of Cooking [1997] by Irma S. Rombauer
0.766 4.3 Collected Poems by W. H. Auden
0.766 4.14 Patricia Wells' Trattoria by Patricia Wells
0.763 4.31 Novels and Stories: Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories by Jack London
0.761 4.39 The Way to Cook by Julia Child
0.76 4.15 The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century by Amanda Hesser
0.759 3.99 How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Ruth Goodman
0.759 4.36 Joy of Cooking [2006]: 75th Anniversary Edition by Irma S. Rombauer
0.758 4.26 Basic Photo: The Negative: Exposure and Development v. 2 by Ansel Adams
0.758 4.19 The Gourmet Cookbook Volumes I and II by Ruth Reichl
0.758 4.56 Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor
0.757 4.28 New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
0.756 3.93 Food: A Culinary History (European Perspectives) by Jean-Louis Flandrin
0.755 4.48 The Complete Poems and Plays by T. S. Eliot
0.754 3.93 Later Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
0.753 4.38 VALIS and Later Novels by Philip K. Dick
0.751 4.34 Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book by Vogue Knitting Magazine
0.751 4.43 The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs by Karen Page
0.75 4.33 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
0.75 4.07 The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
0.749 4.16 John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever
0.746 3.99 Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William T. Sherman
0.746 4.11 Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany
0.746 4.06 The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of a City by Robert Sullivan
0.744 4.52 Mastering the Art of French Cooking [Volume 1] by Julia Child
0.742 4.17 The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
0.741 3.96 All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean
0.741 4.31 How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
0.74 4.36 Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings by Dashiell Hammett
0.74 4.34 The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child
0.74 4.43 The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt
0.738 4.25 James Beard's American Cookery by James Beard
0.738 3.66 The End of October by Lawrence Wright
0.736 4.1 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
0.736 4.22 Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle by Stephen Dunning
0.735 4.24 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals by National Audubon Society
0.735 4.11 Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
0.733 4.31 Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings by Benjamin Franklin
0.733 4.57 The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
0.73 4 My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz
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
0.722 4.38 The New Making of a Cook: The Art, Techniques, And Science Of Good Cooking by Madeleine Kamman
0.721 4.35 Couture Sewing Techniques by Claire B. Shaeffer
0.718 4.47 Mississippi Writings: Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Huckleberry Finn / Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
0.714 4.57 Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens
0.705 4.55 Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
0.705 3.99 City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley
0.704 4.49 The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
0.703 4.08 Democracy/Esther/Mont Saint Michel and Chartres/The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
0.703 4.24 AIA Guide to New York City by Norval White
0.702 4.2 Alinea by Grant Achatz
0.702 4.34 The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living by Mark Bittman
0.702 4.27 The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day
0.699 4.02 City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.696 4.42 Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers by Dorie Greenspan
0.694 4.42 The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updated: 200 Recipes for Ice Creams, Sorbets, Gelatos, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments by David Lebovitz
0.692 4.23 Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound, A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 (The Ghost Writer; Zuckerman Unbound; The Anatomy Lesson; The Prague Orgy) by Philip Roth
0.69 4.07 Patricia Wells at Home in Provence by Patricia Wells
0.689 4.47 Novels & Stories, 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
0.689 4.47 The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
0.686 4.44 Cannery Row | East of Eden | The Moon is Down | The Pearl by John Steinbeck
0.681 4.16 The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich
0.68 4.3 The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
0.68 4.02 Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz
0.678 4.54 The Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Hazan
0.677 4.48 Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza [A Cookbook] by Ken Forkish
0.677 4.43 Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the Heart of Mexico by Rick Bayless
0.676 4.13 Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen: Capturing the Vibrant Flavors of a World-Class Cuisine by Rick Bayless
0.673 4.32 Nature Writings by John Muir
0.672 4.08 The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
0.671 4.19 Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
0.67 4.49 Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / The Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
0.664 4.29 I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay
0.663 4.47 Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories by Shirley Jackson
0.662 4.47 Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
0.66 4.37 Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi
0.659 4.55 Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.653 4.61 Plays 1937-1955 by Tennessee Williams
0.651 4.58 Poe: Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
0.65 4.39 How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food [Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition] by Mark Bittman
0.649 4.47 A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester
0.648 4.4 Elizabeth David Classics: Mediterranean Food, French Country Cooking, Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
0.647 4.5 The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin
0.64 4 Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman
0.634 4.78 The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2011 by Editors at America's Test Kitchen
0.634 4.58 Bouchon Bakery by Thomas Keller
0.634 4.61 The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two: January 1788 to August 1788 by Bernard Bailyn
0.634 4.55 Later novels and other writings by Raymond Chandler
0.632 4.52 Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
0.629 4.59 On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
0.628 4.55 Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) by Raymond Chandler
0.625 4.26 The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
0.619 4.52 James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
0.619 4.44 Steinbeck: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 by John Steinbeck
0.617 4.53 Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Two-volume set) by Julia Child
0.612 4.35 Marcella Cucina by Marcella Hazan
0.611 4.63 Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
0.603 4.44 The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
0.602 4.44 Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman
0.594 3.91 Broadchurch - novel by Erin Kelly
0.592 4.57 The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
0.581 4.39 Tartine: A Classic Revisited by Elisabeth M. Prueitt
0.58 4.61 James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays by James Baldwin
0.578 4.61 History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Adams
0.561 4.64 Collected Stories by Raymond Carver
0.561 4.55 We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
0.56 4.67 The Debate on the Constitution, Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 by Bernard Bailyn
0.558 4.37 Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours by Willa Cather
0.55 4.35 The Essential Cuisines of Mexico: Revised and updated throughout, with more than 30 new recipes. by Diana Kennedy
0.541 4.69 Webster's Third New International Dictionary by Philip Babcock Gove
0.466 4.83 Oxford Latin Dictionary by P. G. W. Glare
0.46 4.83 Modernist Cuisine (six volume set) by Nathan Myhrvold