Controversial Books for natbat

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
1.324 3.54 I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
1.317 3.72 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.313 3.27 The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
1.299 3.65 Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
1.194 3.72 Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
1.137 3.59 Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
1.131 3.64 The Tulip by Anna Pavord
1.125 3.42 Cool For You by Eileen Myles
1.124 3.09 How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
1.122 3.39 The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits
1.117 3.98 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.112 3.35 Story of O by Pauline Réage
1.099 3.83 Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
1.096 3.32 The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block
1.09 3.54 Motherhood by Sheila Heti
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.09 3.59 Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest
1.089 3.85 The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
1.074 3.75 All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
1.07 3.58 Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
1.06 3.9 Black Sabbath's Master of Reality (33 1/3) by John Darnielle
1.059 3.13 The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
1.059 3.69 Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz
1.042 3.34 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
1.04 3.32 The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite
1.034 3.9 Heroines by Kate Zambreno
1.034 3.33 I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
1.03 4.02 Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
1.027 3.98 The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
1.025 3.63 The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
1.024 4.05 A Season in Hell / The Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
1.024 3.94 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
1.017 3.68 Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
1.015 3.94 The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
1.012 3.34 Alice Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe
1.011 3.93 Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
1.01 3.76 The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
1.01 3.54 Indelicacy by Amina Cain
1.006 3.74 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
1.006 3.33 First Sight: A Novel by Danielle Steel
1.005 3.69 No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
1.004 3.79 Earthly Paradise by Colette
1.004 3.89 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
1.001 3.23 The Answers by Catherine Lacey
1.001 3.41 The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
1 3.68 Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
1 3.85 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
1 3.62 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
0.998 3.99 Tarot for Your Self : A Workbook for Personal Transformation Second Edition by Mary K. Greer
0.997 3.35 A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
0.995 3.85 The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
0.99 3.67 Woolgathering by Patti Smith
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.99 3.87 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
0.985 4.01 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
0.983 3.88 The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
0.98 3.8 The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
0.98 3.5 McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
0.979 3.79 Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby
0.976 3.99 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
0.976 3.84 There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
0.975 4.05 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
0.975 3.84 Echo by Francesca Lia Block
0.974 4.23 The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
0.974 4.21 Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
0.97 3.58 Pages for You: A Novel by Sylvia Brownrigg
0.969 3.88 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
0.967 3.81 Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
0.967 4.03 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
0.961 3.61 The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel M. Lavery
0.959 3.93 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
0.958 3.49 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
0.958 3.96 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
0.955 3.53 The First Bad Man by Miranda July
0.955 3.64 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
0.955 3.27 Sarah by J. T. LeRoy
0.955 4.1 Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
0.951 4.03 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
0.948 3.82 Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
0.948 3.69 The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
0.947 3.73 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
0.945 3.44 The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
0.942 3.69 Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
0.942 3.99 Journal Of A Solitude by May Sarton
0.939 3.89 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.936 3.99 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.933 3.89 Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
0.933 4.01 Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
0.933 4.05 Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
0.929 4.28 Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
0.929 3.85 Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
0.928 3.95 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
0.927 4.02 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
0.927 3.18 Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
0.927 3.84 The Seas by Samantha Hunt
0.925 4.19 Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
0.924 4.08 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
0.923 3.61 Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
0.923 3.72 Luster by Raven Leilani
0.921 3.96 Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
0.92 4.11 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.919 3.64 No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.916 4.08 Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
0.916 4.14 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
0.915 3.81 Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
0.912 4.11 Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
0.912 4.14 Bluets by Maggie Nelson
0.911 3.81 Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
0.911 4.11 Little Women / Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
0.91 4.07 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
0.908 3.93 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
0.905 3.56 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
0.904 3.91 Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
0.903 4.19 A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
0.901 3.94 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
0.9 3.6 Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
0.9 3.5 I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy
0.899 3.8 Where I Was From by Joan Didion
0.899 4.08 The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
0.899 3.68 I, etcetera by Susan Sontag
0.898 3.55 We the Animals by Justin Torres
0.898 4.07 Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
0.897 3.82 The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
0.897 3.89 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
0.896 4.14 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.895 4.16 The Giver by Lois Lowry
0.893 3.93 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
0.892 3.87 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
0.89 3.71 Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
0.888 3.79 Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
0.886 2.97 Future Sex by Emily Witt
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.885 3.78 After Henry: Essays by Joan Didion
0.885 4.06 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
0.883 3.66 The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
0.883 3.67 Nancy's Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene
0.881 4 On Photography by Susan Sontag
0.881 3.79 Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
0.88 3.93 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson
0.877 3.91 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
0.877 4.1 Ariel by Sylvia Plath
0.876 3.1 The Children's Home by Charles Lambert
0.875 3.94 Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett
0.874 3.91 Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
0.873 4.25 The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé by Oscar Wilde
0.871 3.99 Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
0.868 4.12 Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
0.867 4.09 A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.867 4.29 Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
0.866 3.55 So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.865 4.21 Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
0.864 4.11 Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
0.864 3.74 Here We Are by Graham Swift
0.862 4 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
0.862 4.16 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.86 4.34 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
0.86 4.07 M Train by Patti Smith
0.859 4.14 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.859 4.12 Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden
0.858 4.34 Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
0.855 4.05 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
0.854 4.14 Just Kids by Patti Smith
0.853 3.9 Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
0.853 4.04 The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.851 4.2 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
0.85 4.02 Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
0.849 4.31 I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
0.848 4.22 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.848 4.12 The White Album by Joan Didion
0.846 4.02 Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
0.845 4.12 The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
0.844 4.15 Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
0.844 4.06 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
0.843 4.12 Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
0.84 4 The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
0.84 4.36 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.839 4.3 A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
0.834 3.75 Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
0.834 3.98 Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
0.832 3.53 South and West by Joan Didion
0.826 3.92 The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
0.825 4.3 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
0.823 4.13 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
0.82 3.73 When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
0.819 3.78 Severance by Ling Ma
0.818 3.93 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
0.816 4.36 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
0.815 4 Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian
0.814 4.3 Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
0.812 4.15 The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3, 1925-1930 by Virginia Woolf
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.807 4.31 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
0.807 4.11 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
0.806 4.25 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
0.805 4.09 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.802 3.83 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
0.802 4 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
0.799 4.16 A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
0.798 3.1 When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
0.797 3.77 Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez
0.795 3.92 Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
0.794 4.02 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
0.793 4.29 Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.79 3.99 Black Wave by Michelle Tea
0.79 4.24 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
0.789 3.59 Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
0.788 4.09 The Library Book by Susan Orlean
0.788 4.31 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
0.786 4.05 Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
0.786 3.8 Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss
0.784 4.36 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.781 4 Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell
0.779 4.51 A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
0.776 4.37 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.771 3.72 A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.765 3.93 The Portable Blake by William Blake
0.763 4.07 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
0.762 4.28 Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
0.757 3.91 Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
0.757 4.28 New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
0.756 3.87 Devotion by Patti Smith
0.756 3.98 Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
0.755 4.37 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
0.751 4.01 Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
0.75 4.08 Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
0.75 4.04 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
0.747 3.71 The Changeling by Joy Williams
0.744 4.05 Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison
0.738 3.66 We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
0.737 3.78 History of Violence: A Novel by Édouard Louis
0.735 4.48 Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature by Andy Goldsworthy
0.733 3.91 Sphinx by Anne Garréta
0.718 4.02 The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
0.717 3.9 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
0.71 3.96 Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
0.706 4.31 How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
0.706 4.36 Passage by Andy Goldsworthy
0.703 4.43 Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
0.699 3.83 Mean by Myriam Gurba
0.696 4.36 Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
0.69 3.52 Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
0.682 4.09 Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
0.68 4.44 In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
0.673 4.42 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
0.673 3.95 The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
0.66 4.21 Wall by Andy Goldsworthy
0.634 4.15 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
0.63 3.91 Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk by John Doe
0.552 3.82 Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown