Controversial Books for HundredFlowersBloom

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
1.206 4.01 Ulysses por James Joyce
1.153 3.62 The Waste Land and Other Poems por T. S. Eliot
1.152 3.57 Paradiso por José Lezama Lima
1.144 3.56 World Orders Old and New por Noam Chomsky
1.139 3.78 Berlin Alexanderplatz por Alfred Döblin
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness por Joseph Conrad
1.13 3.69 The Atrocity Exhibition por J. G. Ballard
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye por J. D. Salinger
1.115 3.91 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman por Laurence Sterne
1.115 3.6 The Elementary Particles por Michel Houellebecq
1.114 3.95 The Sound and the Fury por William Faulkner
1.101 3.6 The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future por Theodore Kaczynski
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man por James Joyce
1.094 3.8 The Public Burning por Robert Coover
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse por Virginia Woolf
1.081 3.9 Airships por Barry Hannah
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights por Emily Brontë
1.076 3.79 Empire of Signs por Roland Barthes
1.069 4.08 The Tunnel por William H. Gass
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 por Thomas Pynchon
1.059 3.9 The Production of Space por Henri Lefebvre
1.047 3.69 Lord Jim por Joseph Conrad
1.045 4.02 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins por Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies por William Golding
1.042 4 Teatro Grottesco por Thomas Ligotti
1.041 3.64 One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society por Herbert Marcuse
1.039 3.65 H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life por Michel Houellebecq
1.037 3.74 The Satanic Verses por Salman Rushdie
1.036 4.05 The Obscene Bird of Night por José Donoso
1.031 3.6 Portnoy's Complaint por Philip Roth
1.03 3.85 O grande Gatsby por F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.024 3.81 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson por Camille Paglia
1.02 4.31 The Recognitions por William Gaddis
1.019 3.95 Nations and Nationalism por Ernest Gellner
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer por William Gibson
1.016 3.83 The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man por Marshall McLuhan
1.014 3.78 White Noise por Don DeLillo
1.013 4.01 Pedro Páramo por Juan Rulfo
1.012 3.73 Literary Theory: An Anthology por Julie Rivkin
1.009 3.71 Death in Venice por Thomas Mann
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian por Cormac McCarthy
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 por Joseph Heller
1.007 3.83 The Marx-Engels Reader por Karl Marx
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath por John Steinbeck
1.003 4.01 Possession por A.S. Byatt
1 3.61 My Year of Rest and Relaxation por Ottessa Moshfegh
0.999 3.75 At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition por H. P. Lovecraft
0.998 3.99 Paradise Lost por John Milton
0.998 3.61 How to Read Lacan por Slavoj Žižek
0.996 4.08 Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle por Vladimir Nabokov
0.994 4.07 Lolita por Vladimir Nabokov
0.989 4.06 The Road por Cormac McCarthy
0.989 4.17 Hopscotch por Julio Cortázar
0.985 3.79 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty por Daron Acemoglu
0.979 3.74 City of Glass por Paul Auster
0.976 3.69 Oedipus Rex por Sophocles
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God por Zora Neale Hurston
0.975 3.89 Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets por Nassim Nicholas Taleb
0.973 3.8 The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects por Marshall McLuhan
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men por John Steinbeck
0.968 3.72 The Prince por Niccolò Machiavelli
0.963 3.81 The Bonfire of the Vanities por Tom Wolfe
0.963 3.88 Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War por Stephen R. Platt
0.961 4.05 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler por Italo Calvino
0.958 3.72 Tender is the Night por F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.956 3.92 To Live por Yu Hua
0.956 4.1 The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) por T. S. Eliot
0.954 4.13 The Human Condition por Hannah Arendt
0.952 3.68 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture por Douglas Coupland
0.95 4.2 A Montanha Mágica por Thomas Mann
0.949 3.62 The Broom of the System por David Foster Wallace
0.947 4.13 The Technological Society por Jacques Ellul
0.947 3.86 Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies por Noam Chomsky
0.946 4.1 Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life por Theodor Adorno
0.945 3.85 Literary Theory: An Introduction por Terry Eagleton
0.944 4.26 Life: A User's Manual por Georges Perec
0.943 3.9 Dubliners por James Joyce
0.941 3.79 Switch Bitch por Roald Dahl
0.941 3.85 Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television por Jerry Mander
0.941 3.72 Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory por Peter Barry
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina por Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 The Stranger por Albert Camus
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction por Michel Foucault
0.931 3.99 Ways of Seeing por John Berger
0.93 4.08 The Inferno por Dante Alighieri
0.928 4.2 The Road to Serfdom por F. A. Hayek
0.927 3.82 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion por Yukio Mishima
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar por Sylvia Plath
0.926 3.8 Cigarettes por Harry Mathews
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre por Charlotte Brontë
0.921 4.05 Notes from Underground por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire por Vladimir Nabokov
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch por George Eliot
0.919 4.18 The Sot-Weed Factor por John Barth
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita por Mikhail Bulgakov
0.918 4.1 Slaughterhouse-Five por Kurt Vonnegut
0.917 4.03 Hunger por Knut Hamsun
0.916 4.27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library) por Hunter S. Thompson
0.915 3.99 Breakfast of Champions por Kurt Vonnegut
0.914 4 O Triunfo dos Porcos por George Orwell
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front por Erich Maria Remarque
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.909 3.89 The Fall por Albert Camus
0.908 4.06 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture por Carl E. Schorske
0.908 3.84 We por Yevgeny Zamyatin
0.906 3.75 Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire por Peter H. Wilson
0.905 3.88 A Short History of Progress por Ronald Wright
0.904 3.91 Against Interpretation: And Other Essays por Susan Sontag
0.904 3.93 Childhood's End por Arthur C. Clarke
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 por Ray Bradbury
0.903 3.86 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer por Mark Twain
0.898 3.77 Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism por Fredric Jameson
0.897 3.94 Norwegian Wood por Haruki Murakami
0.892 3.91 The History of Jazz por Ted Gioia
0.888 4.01 The Sirens of Titan por Kurt Vonnegut
0.888 4.05 Between Past and Future por Hannah Arendt
0.887 4.12 The Idiot por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.883 4.19 Earthly Powers por Anthony Burgess
0.882 4.13 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century por Timothy Snyder
0.875 3.96 Kokoro por Natsume Soseki
0.875 4.13 What We Talk about When We Talk about Love por Raymond Carver
0.874 3.68 Babel-17 por Samuel R. Delany
0.873 3.89 The Invention of Morel por Adolfo Bioy Casares
0.872 3.94 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers por Robert L. Heilbroner
0.871 3.94 Planet of Slums por Mike Davis
0.869 3.95 The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley] por Simone de Beauvoir
0.867 3.91 Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance por Noam Chomsky
0.866 4.1 Cat's Cradle por Kurt Vonnegut
0.863 4.06 Ham on Rye por Charles Bukowski
0.862 4.04 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism por Benedict Anderson
0.862 4.18 The Origins of Totalitarianism por Hannah Arendt
0.86 3.91 On Revolution por Hannah Arendt
0.86 4.58 The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World por Vincent Bevins
0.859 3.86 Profit Over People : Neoliberalism and Global Order por Noam Chomsky
0.856 3.85 The Oxford History of the French Revolution por William Doyle
0.854 4.06 Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House por Peter Baker
0.853 4.23 1984 por George Orwell
0.848 4.04 The Overcoat por Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid por Douglas Hofstadter
0.848 4 A Brief History of Neoliberalism por David Harvey
0.847 3.82 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories por Truman Capote
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird por Harper Lee
0.846 3.73 Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories por Philip Roth
0.845 4.01 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? por Mark Fisher
0.843 4.07 The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America por Allan M. Brandt
0.839 3.99 Roadside Picnic por Arkady Strugatsky
0.837 4.13 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America por Louis Menand
0.834 4.03 Darkness at Noon por Arthur Koestler
0.832 4.32 The Count of Monte Cristo por Alexandre Dumas
0.831 3.92 The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations por Christopher Lasch
0.828 4.01 The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies por Clark Ashton Smith
0.824 4.09 Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 por Anne Applebaum
0.821 3.78 Burmese Days por George Orwell
0.818 3.66 The Maimed por Hermann Ungar
0.817 4.3 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany por William L. Shirer
0.815 4.04 No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State por Glenn Greenwald
0.811 4.39 East of Eden por John Steinbeck
0.807 4 The Invention of Tradition por Eric Hobsbawm
0.806 4.09 The Old Regime and the French Revolution por Alexis de Tocqueville
0.804 4.06 All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror por Stephen Kinzer
0.804 4.14 The Making of the English Working Class por E. P. Thompson
0.801 4.19 Debt: The First 5,000 Years por David Graeber
0.799 3.7 On Violence por Hannah Arendt
0.797 4.31 The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power por Daniel Yergin
0.792 3.88 Putin’s Russia por Anna Politkovskaya
0.787 4.22 Congo: The Epic History of a People por David Van Reybrouck
0.786 3.99 The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.784 3.71 Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris por Richard Kluger
0.779 3.9 The Defense por Vladimir Nabokov
0.773 4.23 Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America por Rick Perlstein
0.772 4.31 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup por John Carreyrou
0.77 4.32 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 por Daniel Walker Howe
0.767 4.18 Capital in the 21st Century por Thomas Piketty
0.764 4.09 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II por John W. Dower
0.759 4.05 The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.757 4.21 A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East por David Fromkin
0.747 4.3 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer por Siddhartha Mukherjee
0.742 4.02 Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things por Gilbert Sorrentino
0.738 4.09 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure por Greg Lukianoff
0.732 3.98 The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 por Eric Hobsbawm
0.732 4.13 SPQR : Uma História da Roma Antiga por Mary Beard
0.728 4.2 Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years por Diarmaid MacCulloch
0.728 4.2 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine por Michael Lewis
0.713 4.04 Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition por Daniel Okrent
0.712 4.3 India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy por Ramachandra Guha
0.709 4.28 The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government por David Talbot
0.705 4.03 Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 por Christopher Clark
0.7 3.99 The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE por Simon Schama
0.695 4 Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature por Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
0.694 4.05 Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 por James T. Patterson
0.68 4.07 Deterring Democracy por Noam Chomsky
0.671 4.05 Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS por Joby Warrick
0.652 4.26 Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations por Ronen Bergman
0.649 4.32 Richard Nixon: The Life por John A. Farrell
0.59 3.96 The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China por Julia Lovell