Controversial Books for ricelaker

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
1.145 3.84 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
1.142 3.46 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.109 3.83 Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
1.09 4.11 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production by Karl Marx
1.048 3.47 The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C Winegard
1.018 3.93 The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War by John "Chick" Donohue
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
0.99 3.84 Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
0.983 4.01 Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
0.973 3.4 Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
0.973 3.96 A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 by David Harvey
0.973 4.13 Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
0.973 3.75 The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders
0.969 3.65 Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base by Annie Jacobsen
0.965 4.03 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
0.964 3.34 The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe
0.952 3.94 Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
0.951 3.94 Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler
0.95 3.53 The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackermann
0.948 4.11 War Is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler
0.947 3.38 ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern
0.945 3.84 An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
0.945 3.92 Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
0.943 3.59 The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West) by Margot Mifflin
0.943 3.68 An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel
0.939 4.12 The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
0.938 3.8 Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.934 3.75 The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg
0.922 4.14 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.916 3.97 Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Goldstone
0.916 3.96 Capital, Vol. 3: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
0.913 3.81 A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler
0.91 4.03 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
0.907 3.53 The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman
0.906 3.99 Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt
0.905 4.1 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.903 4.02 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff
0.9 4.14 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
0.898 4.06 The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.895 3.91 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
0.895 4.1 We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
0.894 3.7 Free Will by Sam Harris
0.894 3.73 The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
0.886 3.88 Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz
0.885 3.9 Capital, Vol. 2: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.884 3.84 Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling
0.883 4.06 Centennial by James A. Michener
0.883 4.14 Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
0.877 3.59 The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
0.876 3.83 Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
0.874 3.83 A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred McCoy
0.874 3.52 Black Hawk: An Autobiography by Black Hawk
0.869 4.03 Hawaii by James A. Michener
0.868 4.14 Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
0.867 3.92 The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
0.866 4.1 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
0.864 3.47 Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan
0.858 3.74 Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons by Walter Lord
0.856 3.92 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
0.855 3.96 Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
0.855 3.6 White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
0.854 4.02 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.853 3.99 Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
0.851 4.2 A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
0.85 3.74 A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
0.85 3.83 Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
0.849 3.95 Chesapeake by James A. Michener
0.848 3.89 Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers
0.847 3.97 The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
0.846 3.99 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
0.844 4.05 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
0.844 3.82 American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
0.843 4.26 Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
0.841 3.86 The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes
0.84 3.85 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
0.84 3.99 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
0.84 3.94 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
0.839 3.93 Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
0.839 3.89 Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
0.836 4.1 American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
0.834 3.86 The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
0.833 4 Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson
0.831 4.19 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
0.83 3.84 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
0.83 3.84 Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester
0.827 4.04 Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
0.825 3.87 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
0.823 4.18 An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
0.82 4.12 The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
0.816 4.02 The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson
0.816 4.09 Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
0.815 4.04 No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
0.814 3.65 The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin
0.813 4.19 When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
0.812 3.92 The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
0.811 4.23 Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
0.811 4.44 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
0.81 3.98 The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
0.81 4.14 Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
0.805 4.35 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
0.804 3.98 Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
0.804 4.14 The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
0.802 3.91 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
0.802 4.27 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
0.801 4.06 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
0.8 4.09 Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
0.8 4.27 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
0.798 4.1 Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich
0.793 3.93 Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
0.792 4.16 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
0.791 4.05 United States Catholic Catechism for Adult by U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
0.79 3.46 Ark by Veronica Roth
0.79 3.63 American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
0.79 4.3 The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
0.787 4.15 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
0.782 3.92 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
0.78 3.79 The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
0.779 4.19 The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
0.779 4.05 Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
0.776 4.04 Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
0.775 4.37 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
0.775 4.15 Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht
0.775 4.04 Three Months in the Southern States by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
0.775 3.9 When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson
0.774 3.88 It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann
0.773 3.96 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
0.772 4.03 The Normans: From Raiders to Kings by Lars Brownworth
0.772 3.72 Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long by Jr. Richard D. White
0.768 4.22 Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
0.768 3.97 The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
0.767 3.57 The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
0.766 3.83 Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
0.765 4.07 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
0.764 3.48 18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb
0.763 4.03 Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
0.763 4.07 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
0.762 4.05 Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum
0.762 4.52 Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois
0.759 4.15 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
0.758 4.35 The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
0.758 3.64 The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century by William Rosen
0.757 4.14 The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
0.757 4.3 Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
0.755 4.2 The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segré
0.755 4.04 Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes
0.754 4.02 The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
0.754 4.22 Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
0.754 4.34 Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
0.753 4.37 If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
0.753 3.91 Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World by Patrick J. Geary
0.753 4.3 Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
0.751 4.27 Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
0.749 4.11 The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
0.749 4.02 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
0.745 4.2 The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.743 4.3 Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
0.743 4.2 Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
0.741 3.95 On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope
0.739 3.93 When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom
0.738 4.1 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff
0.736 3.83 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
0.734 4.03 The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.733 4.44 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
0.733 3.77 They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
0.732 4.2 Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
0.73 3.93 Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark
0.729 3.74 Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson
0.728 4.05 The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss
0.724 4.25 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
0.721 4.19 The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
0.721 4.22 Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
0.72 3.89 Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
0.72 4.11 Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
0.718 4.1 The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
0.716 4.03 The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
0.716 3.8 The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
0.715 3.92 Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
0.713 4.21 Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
0.712 4.08 Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world by Lesley M. M. Blume
0.71 4.34 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
0.71 3.92 When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz
0.706 4 God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner
0.705 3.8 Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
0.705 4.03 Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
0.704 3.69 The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
0.702 3.8 Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
0.701 4.2 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
0.7 4.25 Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon
0.699 4.19 Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
0.699 3.66 City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago by Gary Krist
0.697 3.6 Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale
0.697 4.02 The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
0.695 4.37 Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
0.691 4.21 Legend: A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines by Eric Blehm
0.69 4.15 Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
0.686 3.96 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
0.686 4.46 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
0.685 3.68 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
0.683 4.13 The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
0.679 4.12 The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
0.676 3.88 A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
0.67 3.9 They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
0.669 4.45 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
0.666 4.18 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race {2017} by Beverly Daniel Tatum
0.666 4.39 Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
0.666 3.98 The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen
0.663 4.01 The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
0.66 4.33 How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
0.649 4.36 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
0.647 4.32 Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom
0.64 4.26 Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
0.639 4.18 Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story by Andrea Warren
0.638 4.06 Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
0.637 4.28 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
0.635 3.75 Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
0.629 4.6 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
0.627 4.16 Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
0.626 4.33 We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
0.62 3.77 Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world by Joshua Benjamin Freeman
0.616 4.15 Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil S. Price
0.607 4.43 Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson
0.595 4.29 The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
0.594 4.2 The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
0.576 4.35 Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey
0.574 3.92 Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
0.559 4.35 Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
0.557 4.26 The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 by Sinclair McKay
0.554 4.59 Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
0.543 4.17 Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
0.531 4.37 Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
0.523 3.85 AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol
0.484 4.02 The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
0.471 3.72 Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs