Controversial Books for RossannaB

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
1.221 3.72 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos por Jordan B. Peterson
1.125 3.59 The Concept of Anxiety por Søren Kierkegaard
1.102 3.71 American Psycho por Bret Easton Ellis
1.102 3.79 Interpretation and Overinterpretation por Umberto Eco
1.09 3.5 A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships por Ogi Ogas
1.078 3.62 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality por Sigmund Freud
1.077 3.6 Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis por Sigmund Freud
1.067 3.63 Civilization and Its Discontents por Sigmund Freud
1.058 3.71 Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is por Friedrich Nietzsche
1.054 3.54 I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality por Jerold J. Kreisman
1.047 3.36 On Bullshit por Harry G. Frankfurt
1.044 3.57 Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships por Eric Berne
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies por William Golding
1.042 3.32 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion por Paul Bloom
1.037 3.62 The Future of an Illusion por Sigmund Freud
1.031 3.93 Modern Man in Search of a Soul por C. G. Jung
1.029 3.88 Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English por Eric Partridge
1.028 3.86 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success por Carol S. Dweck
1.016 4.04 The Denial of Death por Ernest Becker
1.015 3.64 Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care por Benjamin Spock
1.012 3.78 Theatre por W. Somerset Maugham
1.007 3.76 Nausea por Jean-Paul Sartre
1.006 3.77 The Highly Sensitive Person. How to thrive when the world overwhelms you por Elaine N. Aron
1.005 3.86 Thus Spoke Zarathustra por Friedrich Nietzsche
1.004 4.04 Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking por David Bayles
1.001 4.09 Ethics por Baruch Spinoza
1 3.94 Violence por Slavoj Žižek
1 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future por Friedrich Nietzsche
1 3.78 Sophie's World por Jostein Gaarder
0.999 3.7 Seeing por José Saramago
0.998 3.94 A Treatise of Human Nature por David Hume
0.996 4.02 On the Genealogy of Morality por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.994 3.39 Submarine por Joe Dunthorne
0.994 4.07 Lolita por Vladimir Nabokov
0.987 3.98 Escape from Freedom por Erich Fromm
0.982 4.03 Letters to Milena por Franz Kafka
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer por Patrick Süskind
0.978 4.28 Works of Love por Søren Kierkegaard
0.975 4 How To Talk So Kids Can Learn por Adele Faber
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays por Albert Camus
0.973 4.13 Pedagogy of the Oppressed por Paulo Freire
0.973 3.5 Time must have a stop por Aldous Huxley
0.972 4.06 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus por Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.968 3.72 The Prince por Niccolò Machiavelli
0.963 3.53 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day por Arnold Bennett
0.957 3.82 How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life por Massimo Pigliucci
0.952 3.82 The Course of Love por Alain De Botton
0.952 4.18 Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason por Alfie Kohn
0.948 3.8 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation por Lynne Truss
0.946 3.6 The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures por Antonio Damasio
0.946 4.02 The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are por Alan Watts
0.944 3.96 Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error por Kathryn Schulz
0.943 3.81 The Antichrist por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.941 3.83 Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.94 4.06 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close por Jonathan Safran Foer
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving por Erich Fromm
0.94 4.01 The Trial por Franz Kafka
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange por Anthony Burgess
0.938 3.75 Suicide por Emile Durkheim
0.938 3.93 The Case Against Sugar por Gary Taubes
0.937 3.9 The Ethics Of Ambiguity por Simone de Beauvoir
0.935 3.94 Zen in the Art of Writing por Ray Bradbury
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction por Michel Foucault
0.925 4.03 A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy por William B Irvine
0.924 4.2 Thinking in Systems: A Primer por Donella H. Meadows
0.92 3.81 The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now por Meg Jay
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray por Oscar Wilde
0.918 3.87 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life por Sigmund Freud
0.917 3.62 Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life por Sissela Bok
0.914 4 O Triunfo dos Porcos por George Orwell
0.913 3.72 When God Was a Rabbit por Sarah Winman
0.912 3.84 Pygmalion por George Bernard Shaw
0.911 4.02 Oblomov por Ivan Goncharov
0.911 4.01 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World por Cal Newport
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.909 3.89 The Fall por Albert Camus
0.908 3.8 Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (The ParentData Series) por Emily Oster
0.907 3.87 The Birth of Tragedy por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.907 3.85 The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking por Oliver Burkeman
0.907 4.09 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature por Steven Pinker
0.906 3.96 Just So Stories por Rudyard Kipling
0.906 3.89 Goethe's Faust: Part One and Sections from Part Two por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 por Ray Bradbury
0.901 3.93 A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living (Learning to Live) por Luc Ferry
0.9 3.86 The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century por Steven Pinker
0.899 3.92 Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence por Andy Clark
0.898 3.99 21 Lessons for the 21st Century por Yuval Noah Harari
0.897 3.94 No Exit por Jean-Paul Sartre
0.897 3.94 Norwegian Wood por Haruki Murakami
0.896 3.85 Simulacra and Simulation por Jean Baudrillard
0.896 3.95 The Plague por Albert Camus
0.894 4.34 Philosophical Investigations por Ludwig Wittgenstein
0.894 4.09 The Ego and Its Own por Max Stirner
0.893 3.95 Dead Souls por Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.891 4.03 Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise por Anders Ericsson
0.89 3.84 Dirty Hands por Jean-Paul Sartre
0.89 3.77 Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life por Martin E. P. Seligman
0.885 4.05 Eugene Onegin por Alexander Pushkin
0.884 4.04 Naming and Necessity por Saul A. Kripke
0.881 4.28 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English por Paul Procter
0.879 4.05 Kafka on the Shore por Haruki Murakami
0.878 3.95 How to Do Things with Words por J. L. Austin
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind por Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 3.47 Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind por Colin Renfrew
0.869 3.76 The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers por Daniel L. Schacter
0.868 4.12 Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison por Michel Foucault
0.868 4.25 Dictionary of Symbols por Jean Chevalier
0.868 3.67 Hallucinations por Oliver Sacks
0.867 3.83 How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner por Jan Garavaglia
0.864 3.97 The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating por David M. Buss
0.863 4.12 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones por James Clear
0.862 4.04 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism por Benedict Anderson
0.86 4.03 Teaching As a Subversive Activity por Neil Postman
0.859 3.9 The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory por Aleksandr R. Luria
0.858 3.86 Fathers and Sons por Ivan Turgenev
0.857 4.09 Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating por M.D. Walter C. Willett
0.856 4.08 The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom por Jonathan Haidt
0.855 3.96 How to Speak How to Listen por Mortimer J. Adler
0.855 3.79 Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage por Paul Ekman
0.853 4.07 An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' por Immanuel Kant
0.853 4.06 The Yellow Wallpaper - story por Charlotte Perkins Gilman
0.853 4.23 1984 por George Orwell
0.853 3.91 A Hero of Our Time por Michail Jurjevič Lermontov
0.849 3.96 Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally) por John McWhorter
0.847 3.82 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex por Mary Roach
0.846 3.95 The Collector por John Fowles
0.844 3.94 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art por James Nestor
0.842 3.89 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business por Charles Duhigg
0.841 4.2 Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend por Matthew Dicks
0.839 4.15 The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious por C. G. Jung
0.838 4.13 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business por Neil Postman
0.837 4.15 Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning por Peter C. Brown
0.837 3.37 Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics por Richard Holloway
0.834 4.27 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark por Carl Sagan
0.833 4.04 How to Take Smart Notes por Sönke Ahrens
0.832 4.03 The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building por David J. Peterson
0.831 4.17 A Short History of Nearly Everything por Bill Bryson
0.83 4.18 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams por Matthew Walker
0.829 4.04 The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition por Eric S. Raymond
0.829 4.01 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language por Gretchen McCulloch
0.827 3.97 Letters to a Young Contrarian por Christopher Hitchens
0.823 4.15 The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary por Ambrose Bierce
0.819 3.95 Dance Dance Dance por Haruki Murakami
0.818 4.23 The Gay Science por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.813 4.18 Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.812 3.63 Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused por Mike Dash
0.812 4.41 Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood por Lisa Damour
0.811 3.85 How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens por Benedict Carey
0.807 3.99 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions por Brian Christian
0.805 4.16 Harrison Bergeron [short story] por Kurt Vonnegut
0.803 4.24 When Breath Becomes Air por Paul Kalanithi
0.803 4.29 Toda a luz que não podemos ver por Anthony Doerr
0.791 4.09 A General Theory of Love por Thomas Lewis
0.781 3.94 Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society por Raymond Williams
0.777 3.98 Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors por Susan Sontag
0.773 4.08 Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom por Daniel T. Willingham
0.764 4.05 The Years por Annie Ernaux
0.763 4.32 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think por Hans Rosling
0.762 4.12 How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter por Sherwin B. Nuland
0.761 4.19 Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style por Benjamin Dreyer
0.76 3.64 And Yet...: Essays por Christopher Hitchens
0.756 4.19 At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others por Sarah Bakewell
0.753 4.24 Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind por V. S. Ramachandran
0.748 3.88 Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History por Bill Schutt
0.742 4.15 The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do por Judith Rich Harris
0.712 3.82 Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind por Annaka Harris
0.704 4.24 The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism por Kristine Barnett
0.691 4.14 The Body: A Guide for Occupants por Bill Bryson
0.688 4.36 The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet por Nina Teicholz
0.661 4.23 How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching por Susan A. Ambrose
0.609 3.97 The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind por Alison Gopnik