Controversial Books for ortgard

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
1.247 3.4 A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1.208 3.69 The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
1.178 3.34 Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
1.177 3.61 Thursbitch by Alan Garner
1.154 2.85 The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet: The Lifelong Solution to Yo-Yo Dieting by Rachael F. Heller
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.134 3.71 Boneland by Alan Garner
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.112 3.38 Hannibal by Thomas Harris
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.063 3.38 The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
1.058 3.19 Kingdom Come by J. G. Ballard
1.047 3.36 On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.044 3.59 Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.022 3.8 Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
1.021 3.91 Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
1.019 3.63 Pincher Martin by William Golding
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1.018 4 Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton
1.016 3.61 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.015 3.88 Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View by Jill Elizabeth Nelson
1.013 4.01 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
1.01 3.97 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
1.005 3.99 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
1.003 3.51 Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
1.002 3.83 Ice by Anna Kavan
1 3.79 Red Shift by Alan Garner
0.998 3.37 The Circle by Dave Eggers
0.998 3.78 The Owl Service by Alan Garner
0.997 3.76 The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
0.995 3.05 Junk mail by Will Self
0.994 3.95 The Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick
0.989 3.63 The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.987 4 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 3.63 The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.983 3.92 Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.98 3.65 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
0.975 4.04 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
0.973 3.71 Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
0.972 3.98 Habibi by Craig Thompson
0.971 3.71 Sylvia Plath: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes by Sylvia Plath
0.971 3.52 A Human Stain by Kelly Robson
0.967 3.56 Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
0.963 3.37 A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
0.957 3.9 The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner
0.957 3.71 Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
0.957 3.87 The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
0.954 3.97 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
0.952 3.78 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.952 3.84 Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
0.951 4.06 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
0.95 3.26 Point Omega by Don DeLillo
0.947 3.75 On Directing Film by David Mamet
0.947 4.27 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
0.946 3.99 The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
0.942 3.61 White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
0.942 4.07 Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
0.941 4.16 The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
0.94 3.89 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
0.939 3.81 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.937 3.44 The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
0.936 4.23 Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
0.935 4.23 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0.934 3.98 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.93 3.33 The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
0.927 3.86 A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
0.927 3.84 Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
0.924 3.85 Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice by Colum McCann
0.924 3.83 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
0.923 3.92 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Barnes & Noble Classics] by Franz Kafka
0.923 3.6 Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.922 4.01 Days without End by Sebastian Barry
0.922 3.92 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
0.922 3.97 Diaspora by Greg Egan
0.922 4.21 What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
0.92 3.39 Spring-Heeled Jack by Philip Pullman
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
0.918 4.1 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.918 4.07 American Gods {original} by Neil Gaiman
0.916 3.86 Strandloper by Alan Garner
0.915 3.99 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
0.914 4 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 3.44 In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
0.914 3.95 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
0.914 3.63 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
0.913 4.08 Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
0.913 3.82 Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
0.912 3.66 The Fall of the House of Usher [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
0.911 3.95 Lanny by Max Porter
0.91 3.94 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.909 4.06 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
0.909 4.13 The Annotated Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
0.905 4.11 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.905 4.09 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
0.904 3.99 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
0.901 4.16 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
0.9 3.46 Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
0.899 3.85 The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
0.899 4.12 The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisław Lem
0.896 4.05 On the Shortness of Life [and other works] by Seneca
0.896 3.82 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
0.896 4.05 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
0.896 4.14 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.894 3.74 Elidor by Alan Garner
0.892 3.79 Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov
0.89 3.81 Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller
0.885 4.24 Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell
0.885 4.03 The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
0.884 3.56 The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
0.883 4.06 Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability {third edition} by Steve Krug
0.883 3.91 My Real Children by Jo Walton
0.882 4.13 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
0.881 3.91 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
0.88 4.13 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.88 4.09 Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
0.879 3.87 Autumn by Ali Smith
0.879 4.07 Blankets by Craig Thompson
0.879 4.2 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
0.877 3.98 Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
0.877 4.09 Ariel by Sylvia Plath
0.877 3.98 Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
0.876 3.83 Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
0.873 4.14 The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
0.873 4.13 Uprooted by Naomi Novik
0.871 4 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
0.871 3.89 The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
0.871 3.87 The Tragedy of the Moon by Isaac Asimov
0.87 3.99 The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Stephen Koch
0.869 3.86 Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
0.869 3.84 Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 4.31 This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
0.864 3.98 The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
0.863 3.73 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
0.863 4.28 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
0.862 3.97 Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.861 3.8 Fatherland by Robert Harris
0.861 4.1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
0.859 4 A Modest Proposal [essay] by Jonathan Swift
0.857 3.7 The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman
0.854 4.03 Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist
0.854 4.09 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
0.853 3.76 The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.852 4.14 Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
0.852 3.66 Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
0.852 4.08 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
0.85 4.03 Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
0.849 3.85 How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster
0.848 4.3 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
0.848 4.04 The Overcoat by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
0.847 3.84 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
0.846 4.02 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.845 4.01 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
0.845 3.83 The Shadow Over Innsmouth [novelette] by H. P. Lovecraft
0.844 4.06 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
0.844 4.01 Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
0.843 3.46 The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
0.842 4.16 V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
0.84 3.8 The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.84 3.83 Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
0.839 4.09 Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
0.837 4.02 The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
0.835 3.69 Isaac Newton by James Gleick
0.833 3.98 Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
0.832 3.94 Clockwork by Philip Pullman
0.832 3.56 The Collectors by Philip Pullman
0.829 3.6 I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman
0.828 3.94 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
0.827 4.06 Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
0.825 4.01 Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
0.824 4.34 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English by H.W. Fowler
0.823 4.34 Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
0.821 4.2 The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
0.821 4.21 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
0.819 3.77 Severance by Ling Ma
0.818 4.28 The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
0.818 3.91 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
0.818 4.21 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
0.817 4.22 The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
0.817 4.16 Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
0.816 3.93 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
0.815 4.15 True Grit by Charles Portis
0.815 3.99 The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
0.812 4.13 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
0.811 3.96 The North Water by Ian McGuire
0.81 4.04 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
0.809 3.91 The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
0.808 3.79 The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge
0.805 4.09 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.805 4.3 Momo by Michael Ende
0.804 4.25 The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
0.803 4.24 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
0.803 3.95 The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
0.803 3.97 Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
0.803 4.28 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
0.803 3.78 The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee
0.801 4.28 Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
0.801 4.19 Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
0.8 4.17 The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
0.8 4.18 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
0.799 4.02 Tamar by Mal Peet
0.798 3.7 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.798 4.12 The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
0.797 4.06 Mort by Terry Pratchett
0.796 4.13 The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
0.795 3.92 Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
0.791 4.2 The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
0.79 3.92 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
0.789 4.06 Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
0.784 4.21 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
0.784 4.04 Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
0.783 4.11 All Systems Red by Martha Wells
0.783 4.02 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
0.783 4.07 Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
0.782 3.93 The LaTeX Companion by Michel Goossens
0.782 4.13 Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
0.782 3.76 The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
0.781 4.25 Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
0.78 4.09 The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
0.78 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.778 3.84 Slow Horses by Mick Herron
0.776 3.98 The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
0.774 3.76 Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
0.772 4.15 The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
0.766 4.3 Collected Poems by W. H. Auden
0.761 4.19 Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
0.759 4.27 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
0.757 3.74 A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee
0.756 4.36 Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
0.756 4.07 Persepolis II: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
0.755 4.35 A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
0.753 3.96 Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
0.749 4.08 Girl at War by Sara Novic
0.748 4.34 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
0.748 4.38 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
0.742 4.07 La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
0.741 4.46 The Arrival by Shaun Tan
0.74 3.99 Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
0.735 4.1 The Kin by Peter Dickinson
0.735 4.1 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love by Rachel Aaron
0.734 3.56 Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson
0.732 3.41 Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress
0.73 4.06 No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.727 3.95 The origin of others by Toni Morrison
0.724 4.15 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
0.724 4.25 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
0.722 4.07 Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh
0.717 3.65 The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal
0.716 3.97 The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
0.711 4.11 Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
0.711 3.59 Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
0.7 4.06 Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
0.694 4.12 Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
0.688 4.09 A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
0.686 4.2 Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
0.684 4.27 Tales From the Inner City by Shaun Tan
0.681 4.31 The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
0.681 4.11 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
0.672 3.57 The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith
0.654 4.48 The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute
0.65 4.08 Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
0.648 4.15 War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
0.623 4.6 The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
0.579 3.72 The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation by Charles Alexander Eastman
0.484 4.03 The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh