Controversial Books for Dystopos

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
1.283 3.5 Signs and Symbols in Christian Art por George Ferguson
1.2 3.57 The Unconsoled por Kazuo Ishiguro
1.195 3.14 The Koran (Dawood, 1956) por al-Qur'an
1.188 3.77 Leviathan & the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life por Steven Shapin
1.178 3.85 Rand McNally Goode's World Atlas por J. Paul Goode
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West por Gregory Maguire
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow por Thomas Pynchon
1.126 3.66 The book of J por David Rosenberg
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces por John Kennedy Toole
1.115 3.92 An Intimate History of Humanity por Theodore Zeldin
1.102 3.86 Architectural Graphic Standards por Charles George Ramsey
1.099 3.14 The Lives of the Saints por Omer Englebert
1.097 3.75 The Ambassadors por Henry James
1.091 3.59 The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual por Scott Beatty
1.091 3.57 A Separate Peace por John Knowles
1.082 3.64 Towards a New Architecture por Le Corbusier
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying por William Faulkner
1.073 3.43 Alphabet Juice por Roy Blount Jr.
1.071 3.61 Smonk por Tom Franklin
1.067 3.22 The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us por James W. Pennebaker
1.064 3.85 We Have Never Been Modern por Bruno Latour
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 por Thomas Pynchon
1.063 3.78 Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society por Bruno Latour
1.052 3.9 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts por Samuel Beckett
1.05 3.62 Ethan Frome por Edith Wharton
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum por Umberto Eco
1.047 4.19 Gospel por Wilton Barnhardt
1.044 3.6 An Atlas of Fantasy : New Revised Edition por Jeremiah Benjamin Post
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary por Gustave Flaubert
1.042 3.59 The Ruin of Kasch por Roberto Calasso
1.038 4.01 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men por James Agee
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things por Arundhati Roy
1.036 3.74 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers por Joseph Gibaldi
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises por Ernest Hemingway
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales por Geoffrey Chaucer
1.021 4.12 Absalom, Absalom! por William Faulkner
1.021 3.66 Herzog por Saul Bellow
1.02 3.71 The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion por Stephen L. Carter
1.019 3.44 Modern Architecture: A Critical History por Kenneth Frampton
1.019 3.57 Millennium : A History of the Last Thousand Years por Felipe Fernández-Armesto
1.01 3.95 The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences por Michel Foucault
1.008 4.12 2666 por Roberto Bolaño
1.007 3.93 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] por Mark Twain
1 3.55 Leviathan por Thomas Hobbes
0.996 4.01 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony por Roberto Calasso
0.995 3.58 Wordstruck por Robert MacNeil
0.993 3.98 Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language por Douglas Hofstadter
0.993 3.88 Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW) por Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
0.991 3.79 Order Out of Chaos por Ilya Prigogine
0.989 3.88 An Exaltation of Larks por James Lipton
0.989 3.56 Death in the Afternoon por Ernest Hemingway
0.988 3.64 Talking It Over por Julian Barnes
0.987 3.82 The Innocents Abroad por Mark Twain
0.979 3.1 Splinter of the Mind's Eye por Alan Dean Foster
0.979 4.04 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region por William A. Niering
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha por Hermann Hesse
0.977 4.01 Os Sonhos de Einstein por Alan Lightman
0.972 3.75 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions por Edwin A. Abbott
0.971 3.86 Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words por John Ayto
0.97 3.77 A Guide to Biltmore Estate por Rachel Carley
0.97 3.97 Deadwood por Pete Dexter
0.97 3.19 Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected por Daniel Boorstin
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style por William Jr. Strunk
0.968 3.71 The Prince por Niccolò Machiavelli
0.968 3.83 The Art of War por Sun Tzu
0.965 3.98 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region por National Audubon Society
0.964 3.53 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer por Steven Millhauser
0.964 3.65 Three Tales por Gustave Flaubert
0.964 3.51 Utopia por Thomas More
0.964 3.71 The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America por James Bamford
0.962 3.77 The Merchant of Venice por William Shakespeare
0.962 4.03 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles por Mike Davis
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid por Virgil
0.96 3.47 A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History por Michael Farquhar
0.96 3.54 Giraffe por J. M. Ledgard
0.959 3.88 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge por Edward O. Wilson
0.959 3.94 Tree Finder por May Theilgaard Watts
0.958 3.93 Mr. Palomar por Italo Calvino
0.954 3.79 The infinity of lists: from Homer to Joyce por Umberto Eco
0.954 3.8 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds por Charles Mackay
0.954 3.8 Candide por Voltaire
0.952 3.73 The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency por Alexander McCall Smith
0.949 3.75 Silas Marner por George Eliot
0.948 3.8 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation por Lynne Truss
0.945 3.85 Literary Theory: An Introduction por Terry Eagleton
0.944 4.15 Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) por Walt Whitman
0.943 3.91 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood por Janisse Ray
0.943 3.88 I Heard the Owl Call My Name por Margaret Craven
0.942 4.03 National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region por National Audubon Society
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf por Hermann Hesse
0.942 3.39 Anthill: A Novel por Edward O. Wilson
0.942 3.85 Flight 714 to Sydney por Hergé
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey por Homer
0.942 4.13 River of Earth por James Still
0.94 3.8 Building Construction Illustrated por Francis D. K. Ching
0.938 3.66 The Architecture of Happiness por Alain de Botton
0.937 3.52 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom por Cory Doctorow
0.936 3.95 The Stranger por Albert Camus
0.935 3.81 The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists por David Wallechinsky
0.935 3.66 The Vatican Cellars por André Gide
0.932 3.63 The Lady of the Lake: A Poem por Sir Walter Scott
0.931 3.98 Ways of Seeing por John Berger
0.93 3.88 The Boulevard of Broken Dreams por Kim Deitch
0.927 3.74 20,000 Leagues under the Sea por Jules Verne
0.926 3.73 Ivanhoe por Sir Walter Scott
0.925 3.77 Misreadings por Umberto Eco
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions por Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.9 Grimm's Fairy Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics) por Jacob Grimm
0.923 3.67 Flaubert's Parrot por Julian Barnes
0.923 4.16 Jitterbug Perfume por Tom Robbins
0.923 3.71 The Fall of Public Man por Richard Sennett
0.922 3.94 Brave New World por Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.85 The Black Island por Hergé
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States por Howard Zinn
0.919 3.96 A History of Private Life, Volume 3: Passions of the Renaissance por Roger Chartier
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five por Kurt Vonnegut
0.916 3.62 The End of Food por Paul Roberts
0.916 3.83 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters por Julian Barnes
0.916 4.14 Invisible Cities por Italo Calvino
0.914 4.12 The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript por Umberto Eco
0.913 4.19 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification por Julian Montague
0.912 4.2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy por Douglas Adams
0.911 4.26 Mere Christianity por C. S. Lewis
0.91 4.07 The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape por James Howard Kunstler
0.91 3.75 Kidnapped por Robert Louis Stevenson
0.909 4.1 Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] por Daniel Donoghue
0.909 3.83 Cigars of the Pharaoh por Hergé
0.906 4.2 Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See por Donald D. Hoffman
0.906 3.73 The Time Machine por H. G. Wells
0.906 4.03 Seven Pillars of Wisdom por T. E. Lawrence
0.905 3.77 The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World por Ken Alder
0.905 4.35 The Stars: A New Way to See Them por H. A. Rey
0.904 4.12 Motel of the Mysteries por David Macaulay
0.899 3.94 Mythology por Edith Hamilton
0.899 3.87 The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball por Paul Dickson
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus por Sophocles
0.896 3.87 A History of Private Life, Volume 1: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium por Paul Veyne
0.895 3.58 1000 Record Covers por Michael Ochs
0.895 3.95 The Blue Lotus por Hergé
0.895 4.1 The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos por Berkeley Breathed
0.894 3.96 Dracula por Bram Stoker
0.894 4.12 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners por James Joyce
0.892 3.83 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference por Malcolm Gladwell
0.892 4.24 Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion por Al Seckel
0.891 4.15 Demons por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.889 4 Danny the Champion of the World por Roald Dahl
0.889 3.71 The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights por John Steinbeck
0.889 4.13 Studies in Words por C. S. Lewis
0.887 4.26 Writing & illuminating, & lettering por Edward Johnston
0.887 4.12 The Idiot por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies por Jared Diamond
0.882 3.88 The Crab with the Golden Claws por Hergé
0.882 3.67 The Secret History por Procopius
0.882 3.93 Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae por Euripides
0.88 3.94 The Works: Anatomy of a City por Kate Ascher
0.878 4.21 Toons for Our Times por Berkeley Breathed
0.877 4.04 No Country for Old Men por Cormac McCarthy
0.875 4.1 Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance por Karal Ann Marling
0.875 3.85 Description of Egypt (TASCHEN Icons Series) por Gilles Néret
0.869 4.1 Father and Son por Larry Brown
0.868 4.13 Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison por Michel Foucault
0.867 4.14 Explorers on the Moon por Hergé
0.866 4.09 Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book por Gerard Jones
0.866 3.91 The Battle for God por Karen Armstrong
0.864 4.11 McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue por Dave Eggers
0.864 3.45 The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album por Matt Groenig
0.864 3.76 The Argonautica por Apollonius of Rhodes
0.862 4.3 The Art of Looking Sideways por Alan Fletcher
0.861 3.97 Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies por Reyner Banham
0.861 3.88 Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox por Victoria Finlay
0.86 3.87 The Golden Bough por James George Frazer
0.86 3.83 A History of Private Life, Volume 5: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times por Antoine Prost
0.86 4.02 Idylls of the King por Alfred Tennyson
0.857 3.92 The Joke por Milan Kundera
0.853 4.17 Billy and the Boingers Bootleg por Berkeley Breathed
0.853 4.23 1984 por George Orwell
0.852 4.09 The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] por Stephen Jay Gould
0.85 3.6 The Most Beautiful House in the World por Witold Rybczynski
0.85 3.42 The Nature of Greek Myths por G. S. Kirk
0.848 3.9 A History of Private Life, Volume 4: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War por Michelle Perrot
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid por Douglas Hofstadter
0.848 3.71 1939: The Lost World of the Fair por David Gelernter
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird por Harper Lee
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood por Truman Capote
0.842 4.26 Poems of Tennyson por Alfred Lord Tennyson
0.84 3.94 The Red Sea Sharks por Hergé
0.838 3.86 The Irony of American History por Reinhold Niebuhr
0.838 4.04 Ajax; Electra; Philoctetes; Women of Trachis por Sophocles
0.837 4.1 Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color por Philip Ball
0.837 4.19 Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source por The Onion
0.836 4.09 America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction por Jon Stewart
0.836 3.41 Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words por John Marciano
0.833 3.7 India: A History por John Keay
0.833 4.15 The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher por Lewis Thomas
0.832 4.25 The Structures of Everyday Life por Fernand Braudel
0.832 4.01 Mythologies por Roland Barthes
0.832 4.16 Seabiscuit: An American Legend por Laura Hillenbrand
0.83 3.87 Home; a Short History of an Idea por Witold Rybczynski
0.829 4.02 Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments por Isaac Asimov
0.829 3.58 Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture por Mario Salvadori
0.827 4.15 Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency por Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
0.826 3.58 Serendipities: Language and Lunacy por Umberto Eco
0.826 4.35 Joy of Cooking [1975] por Irma S. Rombauer
0.824 3.8 Homeric Hymns por Homer
0.824 3.59 The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture por Hal Foster
0.824 3.94 Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America por Jonathan Raban
0.823 3.92 A History of Private Life, Volume 2: Revelations of the Medieval World por Georges Duby
0.821 3.89 4 Plays: Alcestis / Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Medea por Euripides
0.821 4.09 Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War por Sam R. Watkins
0.82 3.72 Learning from Las Vegas por Robert Venturi
0.82 3.98 Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things por Charles Panati
0.816 3.71 Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas por Chuck Klosterman
0.816 4.09 The Razor's Edge por W. Somerset Maugham
0.816 3.94 Harbrace College Handbook por John C. Hodges
0.815 4.15 True Grit por Charles Portis
0.814 3.98 My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun por Lewis Grizzard
0.813 3.69 Early Irish Myths and Sagas por Jeffrey Gantz
0.811 3.81 Bauhaus : 1919-1933 por Magdalena Droste
0.808 4.17 Giraffes? Giraffes! por Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
0.806 4.61 The Making of The Empire Strikes Back por J. W. Rinzler
0.805 3.99 Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 5) por Euripides
0.805 4.35 The Fire Next Time por James Baldwin
0.805 4.04 Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress por Jan Morris
0.802 4.3 The Complete Stories por Franz Kafka
0.801 3.88 Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin por Stephen Jay Gould
0.801 4.01 The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants por Aeschylus
0.798 4.23 The Portable Faulkner por William Faulkner
0.798 4.33 We Were Tired of Living in a House por Liesel Moak Skorpen
0.796 4.28 Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things por Berkeley Breathed
0.796 3.63 On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does por Simon Garfield
0.795 4.24 Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan por Rem Koolhaas
0.793 3.8 The Island of the Colorblind por Oliver Sacks
0.793 4.21 The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America por Leo Marx
0.792 3.94 The Well and the Mine por Gin Phillips
0.787 4.07 Cul de Sac por Richard Thompson
0.785 4.24 Notes on the Synthesis of Form por Christopher Alexander
0.784 3.52 A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals por Spiro Kostof
0.78 3.83 The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism por Richard Sennett
0.776 3.68 Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art por James Hall
0.773 4.53 The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film por J. W. Rinzler
0.77 4 Underground por David Macaulay
0.77 4.09 The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained por William Stuart Baring-Gould
0.766 3.67 Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination por Paul Veyne
0.766 3.57 Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans por Brian Fagan
0.765 4.26 Africa: A Biography of the Continent por John Reader
0.762 4.06 Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster por Mike Davis
0.755 4.22 Tales Too Ticklish to Tell por Berkeley Breathed
0.755 3.89 The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers por Tom Standage
0.755 4.2 Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner por Paul M. Sammon
0.753 4.4 The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All The Words, Volume 1 por Graham Chapman
0.751 4.31 Homicide : A Year On The Killing Streets por David Simon
0.749 3.79 A Field Guide to Sprawl por Dolores Hayden
0.745 4.13 Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance por Erwin Panofsky
0.742 4.31 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative por Edward R. Tufte
0.742 3.77 The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists No. 2 por Irving Wallace
0.742 4.23 Castle por David Macaulay
0.741 3.81 Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms por Stephen Jay Gould
0.74 4.02 Stuck Rubber Baby por Howard Cruse
0.738 3.75 Cities of Salt por Abdelrahman Munif
0.737 4.25 Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction por David Macaulay
0.736 4.38 Amphigorey Too por Edward Gorey
0.735 4.4 The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All The Words, Volume 2 por Monty Python
0.732 3.46 The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art por Matthew Hart
0.732 4.58 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York por Robert A. Caro
0.731 4.34 The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit por Gary Larson
0.73 3.63 Stories in Stone por David B. Williams
0.718 4.32 Envisioning Information por Edward R. Tufte
0.702 4.47 The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract por Bill James
0.7 3.98 Valdez Is Coming por Elmore Leonard
0.697 4.31 United States: Essays 1952-1992 por Gore Vidal
0.691 3.88 Genesis: A Living Conversation por Bill Moyers
0.687 4.53 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 por Taylor Branch
0.685 4.3 Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0.684 4.56 Something Under the Bed Is Drooling por Bill Watterson
0.682 4.55 The Gashlycrumb Tinies por Edward Gorey
0.677 4.16 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution por Diane McWhorter
0.676 4.15 Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra por John F. Szwed
0.674 4.31 The Geography of the Imagination por Guy Davenport
0.668 4.58 Calvin and Hobbes por Bill Watterson
0.668 4.58 Weirdos from Another Planet! por Bill Watterson
0.667 4.54 Yukon Ho! por Bill Watterson
0.659 4.1 Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History por Mark Girouard
0.657 4.49 William Eggleston's Guide por John Szarkowski
0.652 3.5 Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words por Charles Earle Funk
0.651 4.4 American Photographs por Lincoln Kirstein
0.636 4.58 Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" por Bill Watterson
0.606 4.63 Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons por Bill Watterson
0.603 4.67 Andrew Henry's Meadow por Doris Burn
0.579 4.47 The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States por H. L. Mencken
0.369 4.88 The Complete Calvin and Hobbes por Bill Watterson