Controversial Books for LaCasaUIUC

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
1.218 3.58 The Oxford Dictionary of Saints por David Hugh Farmer
1.18 3.21 The Vortex por José Eustasio Rivera
1.172 3.65 Reflections on the Revolution in France por Edmund Burke
1.158 4.11 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition por Houghton Mifflin Company
1.157 3.51 Yesterday, I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving por Iyanla Vanzant
1.107 3.65 Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D. por Robert Peters
1.102 3.85 McKeachie's Teaching Tips por Wilbert James McKeachie
1.101 3.55 Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism {original edition} por Mary Daly
1.096 3.97 Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America por Nathan McCall
1.079 3.4 Loving Pedro Infante por Denise Chávez
1.066 3.6 StrengthsFinder 2.0 por Tom Rath
1.055 3.04 Turing's Delirium por Edmundo Paz Soldán
1.052 3.66 Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America por Gustavo Arellano
1.047 3.3 Blue Angel por Francine Prose
1.039 3.26 The Mixquiahuala Letters por Ana Castillo
1.034 3.86 Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Ninth Edition por Websters Merriam
1.031 3.93 Modern Man in Search of a Soul por C. G. Jung
1.018 3.57 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love por Oscar Hijuelos
1.017 4.04 My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King (Illinois) por Reymundo Sanchez
1.01 3.81 How Languages Are Learned por Patsy M. Lightbown
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities por Charles Dickens
0.998 3.96 O amor nos tempos do cólera por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.99 3.96 Or I'll Dress You In Mourning por Larry Collins
0.987 4.1 Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza por Gloria Anzaldúa
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go por Kazuo Ishiguro
0.985 3.98 The St. Martin's Handbook por Andrea A. Lunsford
0.981 3.5 A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul por Jack Canfield
0.968 3.83 The Death of Artemio Cruz por Carlos Fuentes
0.958 3.57 Esperanza's Box of Saints por Maria Amparo Escandon
0.957 3.14 Make Him Look Good por Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
0.956 3.83 Like Water for Chocolate por Laura Esquivel
0.951 4.09 Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High por Melba Pattillo Beals
0.951 3.72 The Rise of the Network Society por Manuel Castells
0.949 3.74 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America por Barbara Ehrenreich
0.949 3.43 Tale of Two Summers por Brian Sloan
0.946 3.8 Peel My Love Like an Onion por Ana Castillo
0.941 3.65 Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) por Elenore Smith Bowen
0.941 4.22 Goodnight Moon por Margaret Wise Brown
0.935 3.87 Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother por Sonia Nazario
0.933 3.36 The Infinite Plan por Isabel Allende
0.931 3.84 Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future por Neil Postman
0.93 3.56 O general no seu labirinto por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.929 3.84 Her Body and Other Parties: Stories por Carmen Maria Machado
0.926 3.9 So Far from God por Ana Castillo
0.919 3.51 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents por Julia Alvarez
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita por Mikhail Bulgakov
0.918 3.91 Kiss of the Spider Woman por Manuel Puig
0.907 3.81 The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community por Mary Pipher
0.903 3.76 A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya por Linda Schele
0.901 3.81 ¡Yo! por Julia Alvarez
0.901 3.61 Dreaming in Cuban por Cristina García
0.898 3.77 Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism por Fredric Jameson
0.898 3.56 We the Animals por Justin Torres
0.897 3.73 Rainbow High por Alex Sanchez
0.897 3.94 Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories por Sandra Cisneros
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits por Isabel Allende
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil por John Berendt
0.887 3.84 Forgotten Fire por Adam Bagdasarian
0.879 4.05 Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus por Carolina Maria de Jesus
0.878 4.03 The Weight of All Things por Sandra Benitez
0.878 4.09 Selections from the Prison Notebooks por Antonio Gramsci
0.877 3.19 Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter por Phoebe Damrosch
0.877 3.45 The Underdogs por Mariano Azuela
0.873 4.14 On Writing Well por William Zinsser
0.872 3.65 Lotería por Mario Alberto Zambrano
0.869 3.85 Brothers and Keepers por John Edgar Wideman
0.869 3.63 Geography Club por Brent Hartinger
0.868 3.96 When I Was Puerto Rican por Esmeralda Santiago
0.867 3.77 Gardens in the Dunes por Leslie Marmon Silko
0.862 4.11 This Earth of Mankind por Pramoedya Ananta Toer
0.859 3.4 The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System por Siva Vaidhyanathan
0.859 3.93 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal por Eric Schlosser
0.857 3.65 Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty por Scott Turow
0.853 3.91 The Tao of Leadership: Leadership Strategies for a New Age por John Heider
0.851 4.04 The Conquest of New Spain por Bernal Díaz del Castillo
0.85 4.2 Memory of Fire, Volume 2: Faces and Masks por Eduardo Galeano
0.847 3.69 The World of Normal Boys por K. M. Soehnlein
0.846 3.21 Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA por Julia Alvarez
0.844 4.17 Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology por C. S. Ceram
0.837 4.09 Before Night Falls por Reinaldo Arenas
0.836 3.65 So Hard to Say por Alex Sanchez
0.833 3.52 America's Dream por Esmeralda Santiago
0.832 3.45 My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student por Cathy Small
0.831 4.01 Down These Mean Streets por Piri Thomas
0.826 4.12 Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin por Duncan Tonatiuh
0.826 3.81 The Aztecs por Richard F. Townsend
0.809 3.77 The New Spaniards por John Hooper
0.807 4.28 Mil sois resplandecentes por Khaled Hosseini
0.801 4.06 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created por Charles C. Mann
0.799 4.05 The Cellist of Sarajevo por Steven Galloway
0.792 4.16 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus por Charles C. Mann
0.783 4.08 Homage to Catalonia por George Orwell
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban por J. K. Rowling
0.732 4.26 Love and Rockets, Vol. 2: Chelo's Burden por Gilbert Hernandez
0.73 3.12 The Husband Habit por Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
0.714 4.42 Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era [35th Anniversary Edition] por Boston Women's Health Book Collective
0.712 4.5 Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation por Duncan Tonatiuh
0.7 4.15 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary por Merriam-Webster
0.594 4.13 Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America por Juan González
0.582 3.76 Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood por Jay MacLeod