Controversial Books for mcadorette

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
1.081 3.45 Meditations on First Philosophy por René Descartes
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson por Mitch Albom
1.053 3.67 The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci por Jonathan D. Spence
1.048 3.54 Why I Am So Wise por Friedrich Nietzsche
1.016 3.54 On the Pleasure of Hating por William Hazlitt
1 3.98 Thus Was Adonis Murdered por Sarah Caudwell
1 3.55 Leviathan por Thomas Hobbes
1 3.53 44 Scotland Street por Alexander McCall Smith
0.994 3.56 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality por Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays por Albert Camus
0.972 3.61 The Fran Lebowitz Reader por Fran Lebowitz
0.972 3.76 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions por Edwin A. Abbott
0.968 3.72 The Prince por Niccolò Machiavelli
0.96 3.6 Signs and Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins and Meanings por Kathryn Wilkinson
0.956 4.29 The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto por Marcus Aurelius Antonius
0.956 3.99 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? por Edward Albee
0.952 3.84 The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex por Owen Chase
0.95 3.62 On Friendship por Michel de Montaigne
0.941 3.79 A Walk on the Wild Side por Nelson Algren
0.924 3.67 On Art and Life por John Ruskin
0.92 3.75 Two Treatises of Government por John Locke
0.917 3.38 Amsterdam por Ian McEwan
0.916 3.97 Common Sense por Thomas Paine
0.912 4.2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy por Douglas Adams
0.907 3.78 The Man with the Golden Arm por Nelson Algren
0.903 4.08 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge por Peter L. Berger
0.896 4.05 On the Shortness of Life [and other works] por Seneca
0.893 4.1 Meditations por Marcus Aurelius
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits por Isabel Allende
0.883 3.86 The Diary of a Bookseller por Shaun Bythell
0.877 3.78 The American Dream and The Zoo Story por Edward Albee
0.875 3.75 The Kitchen Boy: a Novel of the Last Tsar por Robert Alexander
0.872 3.88 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare por Stephen Greenblatt
0.869 4.01 The Importance of Living por Lin Yutang
0.868 3.82 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie por Alan Bradley
0.86 4.02 Why I Write por George Orwell
0.831 3.88 Story of Philosophy por Bryan Magee
0.829 3.98 Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories por Jean Shepherd
0.825 3.57 The Christians and the Fall of Rome por Edward Gibbon
0.823 3.99 Q's Legacy por Helene Hanff
0.808 3.69 The Golden Egg por Donna Leon
0.807 4.31 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn por Betty Smith
0.791 4.16 The Long Ships por Frans G. Bengtsson
0.787 4.1 The Sirens Sang of Murder por Sarah Caudwell
0.768 4.43 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy por Douglas Adams
0.759 3.99 On Natural Selection por Charles Darwin
0.741 3.49 Public Library and Other Stories por Ali Smith
0.711 3.93 Island of the Mad por Laurie R. King
0.698 4 Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 por Dan Jones
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare por William Shakespeare
0.681 4.18 The Oxford Companion to Philosophy por Ted Honderich