Controversial Books for okonoko

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
1.359 3.58 The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky
1.284 3.64 Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida
1.243 3.88 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1.22 3.4 Ulysses and us: the art of everyday living by Declan Kiberd
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.195 3.14 The Koran (Dawood, 1956) by al-Qur'an
1.184 3.82 Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky
1.179 3.38 How to Get Happily Published by Judith Appelbaum
1.165 3.54 She: Understanding Feminine Psychology by Robert A. Johnson
1.143 3.35 Totemism by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1.129 3.6 Before philosophy : A study of the primitive myths, beliefs and speculations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, out of which grew the religions and philosophies of the later world by Henri Frankfort
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.122 3.54 The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1.118 3.79 Poems and Songs (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Burns
1.108 3.75 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
1.097 3.75 The Ambassadors by Henry James
1.096 3.38 Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.094 3.78 Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
1.086 3.49 Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
1.083 3.88 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.079 3.6 The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
1.076 3.6 Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
1.075 3.79 Guide to Kulchur by Ezra Pound
1.072 3.65 Bloomsbury: A House of Lions by Leon Edel
1.069 3.76 Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1.067 3.63 Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.055 3.63 The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
1.055 3.83 Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
1.054 3.78 Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation (Ahmed Ali, 1984) by al-Qur'an
1.05 3.87 Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
1.049 3.89 Underworld by Don DeLillo
1.045 3.93 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagioraphy by Aleister Crowley
1.042 3.47 The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
1.038 3.42 Faust Among Equals by Tom Holt
1.037 3.62 The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
1.035 3.84 Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics) by Ferdinand de Saussure
1.035 3.58 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
1.034 3.63 Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge
1.031 3.71 Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf by Benjamin Lee Whorf
1.031 3.38 Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
1.031 3.93 Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.49 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
1.028 3.99 We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love by Robert A. Johnson
1.023 3.7 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
1.022 3.26 Snow White and the Seven Samurai by Tom Holt
1.022 3.66 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña
1.022 3.48 Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
1.021 3.91 Meetings with Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff
1.021 3.66 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.66 Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer
1.021 4 The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung
1.021 3.47 Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
1.02 3.66 Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.019 4.1 The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension by Joseph Campbell
1.017 3.87 On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.016 3.93 The Associated Press Stylebook by Norm Goldstein
1.015 3.09 Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.011 3.04 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
1.01 3.95 The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault
1.008 3.62 The Doctor Is Sick by Anthony Burgess
1.006 3.85 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.005 3.67 The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 3.63 Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
1.001 3.87 The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter
1.001 3.68 A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork by Joseph Campbell
1 4.02 Treasures of Tutankhamun by Katherine Stoddert Gilbert
1 3.57 M/F by Anthony Burgess
0.999 3.23 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
0.999 3.78 The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
0.995 3.76 Island by Aldous Huxley
0.995 4.2 Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion by Joseph Campbell
0.995 3.97 Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircéa Eliade
0.994 3.5 The Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures by James B. Pritchard
0.993 3.89 The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith
0.992 3.59 The Killing of History by Keith Windschuttle
0.991 4.02 Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
0.991 3.9 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.989 3.74 Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross
0.989 3.66 Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
0.987 4.16 The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm
0.987 3.87 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
0.987 3.46 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
0.987 3.95 Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor by Joseph Campbell
0.987 3.98 Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
0.981 3.92 Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin
0.981 4.06 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
0.978 3.54 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
0.976 3.15 On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan D. Culler
0.975 3.84 After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner
0.974 3.76 The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess
0.973 3.5 Time must have a stop by Aldous Huxley
0.973 3.57 The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
0.972 3.91 Myth and Reality by Mircéa Eliade
0.972 3.95 The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircéa Eliade
0.97 3.95 Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
0.97 3.47 Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
0.967 3.3 In Other Words by Christopher J. Moore
0.967 3.7 A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
0.967 3.91 Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.965 4.01 Ego and Archetype by Edward F. Edinger
0.965 3.58 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
0.964 3.6 Overtime by Tom Holt
0.963 4.1 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
0.962 3.83 American Studies by Louis Menand
0.962 4.2 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity by Mircéa Eliade
0.962 3.57 Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
0.962 3.56 Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by David Remnick
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid by Virgil
0.959 3.45 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.957 3.85 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener
0.955 3.82 The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations by J. M. Cohen
0.953 3.27 Odds and Gods by Tom Holt
0.952 3.35 Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
0.949 3.96 The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
0.948 3.56 The World of Myth: An Anthology by David Adams Leeming
0.948 4.1 In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching by P. D. Ouspensky
0.948 3.8 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
0.947 4.13 The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
0.947 3.72 Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
0.946 3.59 The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
0.946 4.01 The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
0.946 3.51 Ye Gods by Tom Holt
0.945 3.11 Wish You Were Here by Tom Holt
0.944 3.91 Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
0.943 3.9 Dubliners by James Joyce
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
0.94 3.78 Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
0.94 3.96 1919 by John Dos Passos
0.939 3.94 The Big Money by John Dos Passos
0.939 3.81 Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A. Johnson
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.936 3.57 Mao II by Don DeLillo
0.936 3.81 Stephen Hero by James Joyce
0.935 3.93 The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall
0.935 3.73 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
0.935 3.32 Players by Don DeLillo
0.934 3.94 The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz
0.933 4.2 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
0.933 3.43 Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
0.932 4.23 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircéa Eliade
0.932 4.04 The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
0.931 3.85 The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm
0.931 3.81 The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
0.93 3.63 Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh
0.93 3.82 The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
0.929 3.64 Starting from San Francisco by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.928 3.69 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
0.928 4.08 The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
0.927 3.86 Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
0.926 4.05 The Masks of God: Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell
0.926 3.61 He: Understanding Masculine Psychology by Robert A. Johnson
0.925 3.76 A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
0.924 3.7 Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.923 3.93 To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.93 The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell
0.921 3.27 Only Human by Tom Holt
0.921 3.93 On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
0.92 4.1 From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun
0.919 4.04 The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
0.918 3.87 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
0.917 3.89 The Works of Plato by Plato
0.915 3.77 Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
0.915 4.14 Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air by Francis J. Beckwith
0.915 3.93 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
0.914 3.75 The Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
0.913 3.74 The Names by Don DeLillo
0.913 3.94 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
0.913 3.85 The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
0.912 3.49 Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them by Hans Biedermann
0.912 3.79 Introduction to Aristotle by Aristotle
0.912 3.85 Libra by Don DeLillo
0.91 4.17 The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
0.91 4.04 The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy
0.91 3.75 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
0.91 3.81 The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel Boorstin
0.909 3.91 The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircéa Eliade
0.909 4.02 The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell
0.909 3.34 Grailblazers by Tom Holt
0.908 4.02 A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works by Jacques Barzun
0.908 4.3 John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Keats
0.908 3.74 Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
0.907 4.09 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
0.906 4.17 The Way of a Pilgrim / The Pilgrim Continues His Way by Anonymous
0.906 4.26 The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library Classics) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
0.906 3.4 Youth Without Youth by Mircéa Eliade
0.906 4.2 Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith
0.904 4.04 V. by Thomas Pynchon
0.904 3.83 Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
0.904 3.15 Valhalla by Tom Holt
0.903 3.94 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
0.903 3.74 The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism by Daniel C. Matt
0.903 3.81 James Joyce's Ulysses: a study by Stuart Gilbert
0.902 3.62 Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
0.9 3.46 Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
0.899 3.36 1985 by Anthony Burgess
0.898 4.04 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
0.897 4.03 Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
0.894 3.81 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
0.894 3.79 Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess
0.894 3.81 The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
0.893 3.13 Little People by Tom Holt
0.892 3.98 Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton
0.891 4.11 Metamorphoses [in translation] by Ovid
0.891 3.87 The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher
0.89 3.55 Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn
0.89 3.99 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
0.89 3.78 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
0.889 3.38 My Hero by Tom Holt
0.888 4.07 The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
0.888 3.45 Djinn Rummy by Tom Holt
0.888 3.9 Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
0.886 3.62 Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.886 3.64 A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers by Lee A. Jacobus
0.885 3.9 Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
0.885 3.98 The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
0.885 3.81 A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz
0.885 3.58 End Zone by Don DeLillo
0.883 4.19 Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
0.882 3.89 Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
0.882 3.34 The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths by Erich Fromm
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.88 4.27 The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
0.88 3.44 Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
0.88 3.9 Civilizations : Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
0.879 4.02 Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
0.878 3.86 Images and Symbols by Mircéa Eliade
0.877 3.96 How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
0.875 3.88 An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge by Richard Zacks
0.875 3.99 The End of the Battle by Evelyn Waugh
0.874 3.87 Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings [edited by Ralph McInerny] by Thomas Aquinas
0.873 4.14 On Writing Well by William Zinsser
0.871 3.66 The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault
0.871 4.13 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
0.871 4 Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
0.871 3.93 The Birth of Tragedy / The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.87 4.1 Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh
0.869 3.69 Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess
0.868 4.23 The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
0.867 4.13 Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
0.867 4.09 A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.866 3.3 Americana by Don DeLillo
0.866 3.78 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
0.864 3.41 The Victim by Saul Bellow
0.863 4.13 A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.862 4.31 Yoga : Immortality and Freedom by Mircéa Eliade
0.862 4.12 Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford
0.862 4.17 The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
0.861 3.81 The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
0.861 3.81 Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance by Maynard Mack
0.86 3.87 The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
0.859 4.08 At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf by Bennett Cerf
0.858 3.89 The Complete Dictionary of Symbols by Jack Tresidder
0.856 3.84 The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
0.856 3.54 Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.856 4.19 Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry by Richard Ellmann
0.855 3.6 Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
0.854 4.15 The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.853 3.78 Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox
0.852 3.62 A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz
0.846 3.88 From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Hans H. Gerth
0.844 4.15 Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by Keith Thomas
0.843 3.97 Plagues and People by William H. McNeill
0.842 4.01 The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer
0.842 3.79 Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
0.841 4.05 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps
0.84 4.1 The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
0.839 4.15 The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung
0.838 3.99 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
0.838 3.46 Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
0.837 3.37 The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
0.837 4.14 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
0.837 3.92 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
0.837 3.77 Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
0.837 4.15 The Portable James Joyce by James Joyce
0.836 3.78 Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt
0.836 3.75 An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture by Ernst Cassirer
0.835 3.42 Earth, Air, Fire and Custard by Tom Holt
0.835 4.1 Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.834 4.08 The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
0.833 3.62 Write Right by Jan Venolia
0.833 3.94 The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.832 3.87 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
0.832 4.01 Mythologies by Roland Barthes
0.832 3.89 The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
0.829 3.9 Blake by Peter Ackroyd
0.829 4.09 Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson
0.828 3.85 The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall
0.826 3.68 The First Tom Holt Omnibus: Flying Dutch & Faust Among Equals by Tom Holt
0.826 4.19 The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
0.825 4.07 Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson
0.825 3.39 Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
0.824 3.97 The Quiet American by Graham Greene
0.824 4.15 A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.823 3.71 The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess
0.823 3.69 The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
0.823 3.8 Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
0.823 4.2 Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
0.82 3.37 The Secret Meaning of Things by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.816 3.32 Falling Sideways by Tom Holt
0.814 4.19 The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
0.814 4.13 The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
0.814 4.19 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms by Mircéa Eliade
0.812 4.17 A World of Ideas : The Dictionary of Important Ideas and Thinkers by Chris Rohmann
0.811 3.67 Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian
0.807 4.2 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage by Jacques Barzun
0.805 4.25 The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
0.805 4.22 Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
0.805 3.85 The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy by Mircéa Eliade
0.804 3.33 The Actual by Saul Bellow
0.804 3.79 Lucia in Wartime by Tom Holt
0.803 3.95 Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson
0.803 4.33 The Essential Rumi by Rumi
0.802 4.08 Atlas of the Roman World by Tim Cornell
0.801 4.13 The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell
0.8 4.22 Transformations of Myth Through Time by Joseph Campbell
0.8 3.54 Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
0.798 3.82 The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
0.797 4.3 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
0.797 4.12 Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
0.797 4.24 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
0.795 3.98 A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-tsit Chan
0.793 4.21 The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
0.793 4.35 Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa
0.792 4.35 Symbols of Transformation by C. G. Jung
0.79 3.92 Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alfred Lord Tennyson
0.789 3.4 Here Comes the Sun by Tom Holt
0.784 4.21 The Poems of Francois Villon by François Villon
0.783 3.96 The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Volume 2 by Maynard Mack
0.783 3.92 The Comedians by Graham Greene
0.781 4.04 Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircéa Eliade
0.781 3.78 Writing: the story of alphabets and scripts by Georges Jean
0.781 4.09 Cannery Row | Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.78 3.46 Running Dog by Don DeLillo
0.78 4.35 Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
0.778 3.8 The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
0.777 4.15 The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
0.774 4.13 Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel by Jacob Bronowski
0.77 3.98 Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay
0.764 3.97 Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt
0.758 3.77 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin
0.758 4.26 The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin
0.755 4.49 The Complete Poems and Plays by T. S. Eliot
0.754 3.8 Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing by Patricia T. O'Conner
0.753 3.52 The Devil's Mode by Anthony Burgess
0.752 4.57 Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal by Joseph Campbell
0.751 3.88 The Human Factor by Graham Greene
0.745 3.27 Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt
0.742 3.52 Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture by Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.742 3.78 James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
0.73 3.92 Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader by Anthony Burgess
0.722 4.07 The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome by Vanessa James
0.718 3.63 From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. Weston
0.716 4.11 A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.715 4.13 A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English by Anthony Burgess
0.715 4.08 Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski
0.711 3.92 The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons by Robert Mankoff
0.708 4.41 The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell
0.706 3.62 Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson
0.705 3.92 Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun
0.702 4.13 The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
0.699 3.64 One Hand Clapping: A Novel by Anthony Burgess
0.698 3.98 Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
0.695 3.99 A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by J. W. Burrow
0.694 4.19 Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess
0.693 3.97 Penguin Modern Poets 10: The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten by Adrian Henri
0.69 3.67 Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay
0.689 4.38 James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
0.687 4.02 Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Richard Ellmann
0.686 4.23 The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas S. Kuhn
0.685 4.1 The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) by Jacques Barzun
0.681 4.18 The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich
0.68 4.34 Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
0.672 3.91 99 Novels by Anthony Burgess
0.664 3.54 Olympiad: An Historical Novel by Tom Holt
0.661 4.23 William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson
0.658 4.31 The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose by William Butler Yeats
0.656 3.95 The Complete Enderby: Inside Mr. Enderby; Enderby Outside; The Clockwork Testament; Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess
0.656 3.95 Lucia Triumphant by Tom Holt
0.655 3.58 Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
0.645 3.95 The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors by Laura Miller
0.643 4.03 Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
0.634 4.29 Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation by Joseph Campbell
0.631 4.42 The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination by Patrick Harpur
0.615 3.89 Pragmatism: A Reader by Louis Menand
0.615 4.46 The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
0.601 4.23 What Is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot
0.579 4.69 The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot
0.577 3.06 Valparaiso: A Play by Don DeLillo
0.576 4.54 A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell by Stephen Larsen
0.572 4.2 Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
0.548 4 Cities and Civilisations by Christopher Hibbert
0.472 4.45 Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies by Alice Mills
0.452 4.72 Complete poems, 1913-1962 by E. E. Cummings