Controversial Books for DingusTX

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Avaliação Média Your Rating Título
1.262 4.24 Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence por Sarah Young
1.248 3.62 The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s por Marilyn Ferguson
1.189 3.53 Eat, Pray, Love por Elizabeth Gilbert
1.159 3.48 Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul por Jack Canfield
1.147 3.76 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas por James Patterson
1.139 3.7 Buried Child por Sam Shepard
1.134 3.45 The Yips por Nicola Barker
1.133 3.61 All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat por Suzy Becker
1.127 3.83 The Education of Little Tree por Forrest Carter
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces por John Kennedy Toole
1.12 3.73 In His Steps por Charles M. Sheldon
1.115 3.46 The Sunday Wife por Cassandra King
1.112 3.5 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life {memoir} por Don Piper
1.112 3.74 The Party After You Left por Roz Chast
1.108 3.75 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom por Miguel Ruiz
1.106 2.79 The Almost Moon por Alice Sebold
1.1 3.86 A Child Called "It" por Dave Pelzer
1.097 3.68 The Five People You Meet in Heaven por Mitch Albom
1.096 3.46 The Gate House por Nelson DeMille
1.092 3.24 Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel por Bailey White
1.089 3.03 Gump & Co. por Winston Groom
1.089 3.51 The World's Last Mysteries por Reader's Digest
1.087 3.71 Across Five Aprils por Irene Hunt
1.084 3.61 At First Sight por Nicholas Sparks
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values por Robert M. Pirsig
1.078 3.25 The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster por Kaye Gibbons
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying por William Faulkner
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson por Mitch Albom
1.064 3.64 Good News for Modern Man: The New Testament in Today's English Version por American Bible Society
1.061 3.71 The Music Room: A Novel por Dennis McFarland
1.058 2.94 Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend por Robert James Waller
1.052 3.67 South of Broad por Pat Conroy
1.052 3.95 The New Testament in Modern English por J. B. Phillips
1.049 3.72 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer por Joseph Conrad
1.046 4.08 Andersonville por MacKinlay Kantor
1.039 3.59 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--And It's All Small Stuff por Richard Carlson
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things por Arundhati Roy
1.027 3.55 A Painted House por John Grisham
1.024 3.51 Moo por Jane Smiley
1.021 4.12 Absalom, Absalom! por William Faulkner
1.021 3.65 The Sportswriter por Richard Ford
1.02 3.71 The Raft por Robert Trumbull
1.016 3.65 The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts por Arthur Miller
1.013 3.53 The Dogs of Babel por Carolyn Parkhurst
1.012 3.21 The Nanny Diaries por Emma McLaughlin
1.01 3.56 I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere por Anna Gavalda
1.01 3.61 Bridget Jones's Diary por Helen Fielding
1.009 3 Redeye: A Western por Clyde Edgerton
1.007 3.48 Here on Earth por Alice Hoffman
1.005 3.62 We Were the Mulvaneys por Joyce Carol Oates
1.005 3.83 To Build a Fire and Other Stories por Jack London
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain por Charles Frazier
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath por John Steinbeck
1.003 3.55 Nights in Rodanthe por Nicholas Sparks
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms por Ernest Hemingway
0.992 4.08 Lone Survivor : The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 por Marcus Luttrell
0.99 3.87 The Shipping News por E. Annie Proulx
0.99 3.41 Letourneau's Used Auto Parts por Carolyn Chute
0.989 3.77 The Liars' Club: A Memoir por Mary Karr
0.989 3.79 The Known World por Edward P. Jones
0.987 3.65 Back Roads por Tawni O'Dell
0.982 3.79 A Raisin in the Sun por Lorraine Hansberry
0.981 3.9 Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul por Jack Canfield
0.981 3.37 Little Altars Everywhere por Rebecca Wells
0.981 3.7 Lucky Jim por Kingsley Amis
0.979 3.79 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts por Maxine Hong Kingston
0.978 3.93 Atonement por Ian McEwan
0.977 3.44 My Life por Bill Clinton
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God por Zora Neale Hurston
0.973 3.13 Live and Learn and Pass It On por H. Jackson Brown
0.971 3.83 Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life por Thomas Moore
0.969 3.8 When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough por Harold S. Kushner
0.968 3.66 American Short Story Masterpieces por Raymond Carver
0.968 3.12 The Last Girls por Lee Smith
0.966 3.28 Man and Boy por Tony Parsons
0.964 3.92 The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction por R. V. Cassill
0.962 3.56 Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker por David Remnick
0.962 3.65 Tara Road por Maeve Binchy
0.961 3.78 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories por Grace Paley
0.961 3.88 Dragon Seed por Pearl S. Buck
0.959 3.68 Postcards por Annie Proulx
0.958 3.66 Name All the Animals: A Memoir por Alison Smith
0.957 3.81 Midnight Express por Billy Hayes
0.957 3.7 The Reader por Bernhard Schlink
0.956 3.83 Heidi por Johanna Spyri
0.955 3.96 Birds of America: Stories por Lorrie Moore
0.954 3.97 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There por Lewis Carroll
0.953 3.55 The Emperor of Ocean Park por Stephen L. Carter
0.95 4.02 The Good Earth por Pearl S. Buck
0.949 3.66 The Best American Short Stories 1999 por Amy Tan
0.948 3.43 Looking for Mr. Goodbar por Judith Rossner
0.947 3.82 Holidays on Ice: Stories por David Sedaris
0.946 3.64 Bright Lights, Big City por Jay McInerney
0.945 3.33 Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications por Marlene Wagman-Geller
0.945 3.9 Growing Up por Russell Baker
0.945 3.95 Bel Canto por Ann Patchett
0.944 3.78 Being Dead por Jim Crace
0.943 3.22 The Night Train: A Novel por Clyde Edgerton
0.943 3.66 Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales por Jake Halpern
0.94 3.53 Do Penguins Have Knees? por David Feldman
0.934 3.58 The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir por Isabel Allende
0.932 3.85 The Watch por Rick Bass
0.931 3.82 Ironweed por William J. Kennedy
0.93 3.77 The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories por Tobias Wolff
0.929 3.35 Boone's Lick por Larry McMurtry
0.929 3.65 Thirteen Moons por Charles Frazier
0.928 3.8 Stuart Little por E. B. White
0.928 3.66 The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America por Bill Bryson
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes por Frank McCourt
0.927 3.86 A High Wind in Jamaica por Richard Hughes
0.927 3.69 When She Woke por Hillary Jordan
0.926 3.67 A Short Guide to a Happy Life por Anna Quindlen
0.926 3.81 Where the Heart Is por Billie Letts
0.924 4.11 I Know This Much is True por Wally Lamb
0.923 3.3 The Scorpio Illusion por Robert Ludlum
0.922 3.57 The Clock Winder por Anne Tyler
0.921 3.52 The Best American Short Stories 2004 por Lorrie Moore
0.92 3.69 Nectar in a Sieve por Kamala Markandaya
0.92 3.91 Fools of Fortune por William Trevor
0.918 3.71 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children por Ransom Riggs
0.918 3.47 Falconer por John Cheever
0.917 3.85 Ragtime: A Novel por E. L. Doctorow
0.917 4.07 The World According to Garp por John Irving
0.915 4.2 The United Methodist Hymnal por United Methodist Church
0.915 3.88 Into the Wild por Jon Krakauer
0.914 4 O Triunfo dos Porcos por George Orwell
0.913 4.16 The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition por William Faulkner
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front por Erich Maria Remarque
0.912 3.71 St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories por Karen Russell
0.911 4.26 Mere Christianity por C. S. Lewis
0.91 4.09 The Prince of Tides por Pat Conroy
0.909 4.26 Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories por J. California Cooper
0.909 3.87 Uh-Oh por Robert Fulghum
0.908 3.42 While I Was Gone por Sue Miller
0.908 3.51 'Tis: A Memoir por Frank McCourt
0.908 3.88 My Dog Skip por Willie Morris
0.908 4 Six Plays by Lillian Hellman por Lillian Hellman
0.907 3.45 Open House por Elizabeth Berg
0.907 3.65 Where Trouble Sleeps por Clyde Edgerton
0.906 3.84 Other Voices, Other Rooms por Truman Capote
0.902 3.6 The Weight of Water por Anita Shreve
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried por Tim O'Brien
0.901 3.85 Rule of the Bone por Russell Banks
0.901 4.02 The Call of the Wild / White Fang por Jack London
0.899 3.37 The Ballad of Tom Dooley por Sharyn McCrumb
0.897 3.6 A Guide to the World's Greatest Buildings: Masterpieces of Architecture & Engineering por Trevor Howells
0.895 3.73 The Old Forest and Other Stories por Peter Taylor
0.893 3.95 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It por Robert Fulghum
0.892 4.23 The Poetry of Robert Frost por Robert Frost
0.892 3.75 Girl with a Pearl Earring por Tracy Chevalier
0.89 3.95 Empire Falls por Richard Russo
0.889 3.66 That Old Ace in the Hole por Annie Proulx
0.888 3.9 Let Me Finish por Roger Angell
0.885 3.52 How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat por Bevin Alexander
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner por Khaled Hosseini
0.88 4.01 The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood por Sy Montgomery
0.879 3.04 Model Behaviour por Jay McInerney
0.879 3.84 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant por Anne Tyler
0.877 3.88 Short Cuts: Selected Stories por Raymond Carver
0.876 3.66 A Stranger Is Watching por Mary Higgins Clark
0.874 3.93 Affliction por Russell Banks
0.871 3.86 The Lay of the Land por Richard Ford
0.868 4.02 Plainsong por Kent Haruf
0.868 3.56 The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections por Tom Brokaw
0.865 3.71 The Floatplane Notebooks por Clyde Edgerton
0.863 4.55 Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journey por Robert Sabuda
0.863 3.89 When You Are Engulfed in Flames por David Sedaris
0.862 3.75 A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing por Reynolds Price
0.861 3.91 Out Stealing Horses por Per Petterson
0.861 3.32 The Piano Teacher por Janice Y. K. Lee
0.86 3.79 The Beloved Invader por Eugenia Price
0.86 4 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan por Lisa See
0.859 3.93 The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home por George Howe Colt
0.858 3.86 The Best of Life por David Edward Scherman
0.858 4.38 The Valley of Decision por Marcia Davenport
0.857 3.58 The Amateur Marriage por Anne Tyler
0.857 3.55 Our Game por John le Carré
0.856 3.75 Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season por Nick Heil
0.855 3.34 Killer Diller por Clyde Edgerton
0.854 3.81 The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son por Pat Conroy
0.854 3.49 Lunch at the Piccadilly por Clyde Edgerton
0.853 3.84 Poor People por William T. Vollmann
0.853 3.76 The Best American Short Stories 2010 por Richard Russo
0.852 3.84 Desire Under The Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra por Eugene O'Neill
0.851 3.96 The Progress of Love por Alice Munro
0.85 3.96 The Bean Trees por Barbara Kingsolver
0.848 3.83 The Kitchen God's Wife por Amy Tan
0.847 4.19 Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg por Rick Bragg
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird por Harper Lee
0.844 4.05 Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics por Heather Busch
0.843 3.77 On Agate Hill por Lee Smith
0.843 3.73 A Patchwork Planet por Anne Tyler
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich por Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest por Ken Kesey
0.839 4.12 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest por Stieg Larsson
0.837 3.82 Bad Dirt por Annie Proulx
0.836 4.16 The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War por Bruce Catton
0.834 4.14 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty por Eudora Welty
0.834 3.93 Where All Light Tends to Go por David Joy
0.832 3.87 Walking across Egypt por Clyde Edgerton
0.831 3.85 The Middle Place por Kelly Corrigan
0.83 4.29 Night por Elie Wiesel
0.829 3.68 Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories por Brad Watson
0.828 3.77 I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away por Bill Bryson
0.826 4.21 A Little Princess por Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.823 3.5 Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? And Other Imponderables por David Feldman
0.823 4.12 The Girl Who Played with Fire por Stieg Larsson
0.822 4.18 The Stories of John Cheever por John Cheever
0.821 4.34 The Nightingale por Kristin Hannah
0.82 3.69 New Moon Rising por Eugenia Price
0.818 3.98 Three Plays by Thornton Wilder por Thornton Wilder
0.818 3.94 Pentimento por Lillian Hellman
0.813 4.31 The Hunger Games por Suzanne Collins
0.811 4.22 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest por Stephen E. Ambrose
0.807 4.41 The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker por Robert Mankoff
0.807 4.17 Nobody's Fool por Richard Russo
0.806 3.59 A Sensible Life por Mary Wesley
0.806 3.91 Poachers: Stories por Tom Franklin
0.804 3.99 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories por Tobias Wolff
0.804 3.69 The Invoice por Jonas Karlsson
0.797 3.96 The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories por William Sydney Porter
0.795 4.02 Rock Springs: Stories por Richard Ford
0.792 3.9 Raney por Clyde Edgerton
0.785 3.75 Under the Persimmon Tree por Suzanne Fisher Staples
0.785 4.13 The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them por Eugen Kogon
0.784 3.87 Remarkable Creatures por Tracy Chevalier
0.783 3.96 The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Volume 2 por Maynard Mack
0.781 4.09 Kasey to the Rescue: The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle por Ellen Rogers
0.779 4.06 O Ye Jigs & Juleps! por Virginia Cary Hudson
0.775 4.24 Valley of The Far Side por Gary Larson
0.775 3.81 Spies of the Balkans por Alan Furst
0.774 3.59 The Best American Short Stories 2006 por Ann Patchett
0.773 3.68 The Best American Short Stories 2002 por Sue Miller
0.773 4.08 This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage por Ann Patchett
0.77 3.75 Radiant Angel por Nelson DeMille
0.765 4.3 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.763 4.2 It Came from The Far Side por Gary Larson
0.761 3.59 Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals por Stephen E. Ambrose
0.761 3.8 The Best American Short Stories 2001 por Barbara Kingsolver
0.756 4.45 Complete Stories por Flannery O'Connor
0.755 4.26 The Far Side Observer por Gary Larson
0.75 4.01 If the Creek Don't Rise por Leah Weiss
0.746 3.85 It's Always Something por Gilda Radner
0.745 4 We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance por David Howarth
0.735 4.24 Pushing 40 por Lynn Johnston
0.733 4.29 The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 por Władysław Szpilman
0.731 3.53 Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape por Eugene O'Neill
0.709 3.86 Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 por Frederick Lewis Allen
0.697 4.36 The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories For Sleepless Nights por Roald Dahl
0.689 4 The Best American Short Stories 1998 por Garrison Keillor
0.682 3.8 The Best American Short Stories 2011 por Geraldine Brooks
0.679 4.34 The Twelve Days of Christmas : A Pop-Up Celebration por Robert Sabuda
0.655 3.62 Augusta, Gone: A True Story por Martha Tod Dudman
0.655 3.68 The Child Buyer por John Hersey
0.627 4.13 Something of Value por Robert Ruark