Controversial Books for pynchmeawake

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
1.24 3.41 Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick
1.167 3.95 Writings, 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays by William James
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.107 3.38 A Month of Sundays by John Updike
1.081 3.89 The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.032 3.55 The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.017 4.15 Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
0.996 3.08 Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut Revised and Updated Edition by David Shenk
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.988 4.1 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.987 4 Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger
0.972 4.07 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.95 4.2 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.944 3.89 The Lessons of History by Will Durant
0.938 4.02 Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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
0.921 4.05 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.916 3.69 The Intentional Stance by Daniel C. Dennett
0.916 3.88 Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.908 4.03 The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
0.901 3.7 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
0.899 4.02 Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
0.894 4.34 Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.891 4.15 Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.888 4.01 The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
0.887 4.12 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.887 4.17 Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike
0.882 3.93 The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
0.878 4.07 Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
0.875 3.76 Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
0.874 3.7 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
0.871 4.05 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
0.867 4.2 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.859 4.17 The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.856 3.46 The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations by Robert Nozick
0.854 4.15 The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.852 4.26 The Princess Bride by William Goldman
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.845 3.76 Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett
0.832 4.05 Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
0.823 4.16 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
0.818 4.24 The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.816 3.93 The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
0.814 4.45 No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn
0.781 4.04 Selected Stories of Patrica Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith
0.746 3.56 Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
0.726 4.36 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
0.721 4.08 The Maltese Falcon / The Thin Man / Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
0.712 4.56 The Complete Works by Michel de Montaigne
0.701 3.8 Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett