Controversial Books for rglrkn

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
1.327 3.48 Your Best Year Yet! Ten Questions for Making the Next Twelve Months Your Most Successful Ever by Jinny S. Ditzler
1.287 3.09 Dandy in the Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
1.197 2.72 Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
1.181 3.48 The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus
1.118 3.24 Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley
1.111 3.45 Introducing Psychology by Nigel Benson
1.058 3.05 Introducing Foucault by Chris Horrocks
1.056 4.02 Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Charles Harrison
1.047 3.54 Journals by Kurt Cobain
1.045 3.44 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
1.037 3.51 The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
1.037 3.58 The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
1.031 3.99 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
1.028 3.74 The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
1.026 3.8 Mindfulness : a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams
1.017 3.68 The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
1.016 3.61 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.005 3.86 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.996 3.29 The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex by Joshua Piven
0.993 4.07 The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss
0.99 3.9 The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll by Suroosh Alvi
0.988 3.98 Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
0.988 3.81 The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen
0.986 3.82 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
0.984 4.04 About Looking by John Berger
0.98 3.59 Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
0.971 3.71 Sylvia Plath: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes by Sylvia Plath
0.953 3.96 On Liberty and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
0.95 3.85 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
0.939 4.01 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
0.934 3.95 A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
0.931 3.98 Ways of Seeing by John Berger
0.923 3.9 The Stories of English by David Crystal
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.92 3.67 Introducing Wittgenstein by John Heaton
0.919 4.16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
0.916 3.92 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
0.915 3.71 Junky by William S. Burroughs
0.906 4.04 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
0.906 4.2 Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman
0.905 4.19 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
0.902 3.81 The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art by Guerrilla Girls
0.898 3.96 Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
0.893 3.89 Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
0.892 3.8 Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell
0.887 3.59 Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
0.882 3.98 The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
0.882 3.94 What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz
0.867 4.29 Leaves of Grass (1891-92 Edition) by Walt Whitman
0.866 4.18 The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory
0.861 3.79 The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure by John Mitchinson
0.855 4.14 The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
0.854 3.9 The Photography Book by Phaidon Press
0.847 3.93 Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics) by Gordon Marino
0.842 4.23 The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
0.838 3.99 The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
0.832 4.01 Mythologies by Roland Barthes
0.829 4.08 Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
0.828 3.69 Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thoughts Rendered Visible (Basic Art) by Marcel Paquet
0.814 4.39 The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
0.813 4.29 Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
0.806 4.11 Selected Poems, 1923-1958 by E. E. Cummings
0.799 4.16 A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
0.781 3.94 Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
0.778 4.15 A World History of Art by Hugh Honour
0.776 3.81 Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
0.776 3.68 Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art by James Hall
0.769 3.71 Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
0.767 4.02 A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read
0.751 4.09 Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
0.749 3.79 The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) by Noam Chomsky
0.728 4.2 Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
0.716 4.43 Collected Poems, 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot
0.71 3.81 Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson
0.694 4.36 The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft by Gary Regan
0.69 3.8 Stanley Kubrick by Paul Duncan
0.687 4.53 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
0.658 4.34 The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks