Controversial Books for ohlonelibrary

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
1.223 3.31 Black Leopard, Red Wolf por Marlon James
1.145 3.88 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays por Damon Young
1.126 3.5 Already Dead: A California Gothic por Denis Johnson
1.12 3.65 War Storm por Victoria Aveyard
1.117 3.96 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations por Toni Morrison
1.114 4.03 Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law por Haben Girma
1.1 3.57 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life por Mark Manson
1.097 3.67 No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America por Ron Powers
1.078 3.19 Trust Exercise por Susan Choi
1.077 3.88 The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships por Michael P. Nichols
1.074 3.49 Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life por Nir Eyal
1.062 3.65 Strangers in the House por Raja Shehadeh
1.059 3.71 Fires in the Mirror por Anna Deavere Smith
1.039 3.87 Água Viva (New Directions Books) por Clarice Lispector
1.037 3.49 Librarian's Guide to Online Searching por Suzanne S. Bell
1.033 3.41 Tropic of Orange por Karen Tei Yamashita
1.029 3.58 The Lying Life of Adults por Elena Ferrante
1.026 3.88 Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World por Maryanne Wolf
1.011 4.03 No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference por Greta Thunberg
1.01 3.62 Indelicacy por Amina Cain
1.007 3.71 Bunny por Mona Awad
0.999 3.55 Wide Sargasso Sea por Jean Rhys
0.998 3.87 The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications por David Deutsch
0.994 3.52 The Emissary por Yōko Tawada
0.994 3.83 Me and White Supremacy por Layla F. Saad
0.991 3.95 Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration por Bryan Caplan
0.988 4.14 Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger por Soraya Chemaly
0.983 3.97 Principles: Life and Work por Ray Dalio
0.977 3.78 The Sellout por Paul Beatty
0.974 3.84 What Are You Going Through por Sigrid Nunez
0.97 3.57 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now por Jaron Lanier
0.966 4.23 Hollywood Park: A Memoir por Mikel Jollett
0.965 3.76 The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know por David J. Miklowitz
0.961 4.05 Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 por James Tynion IV
0.956 3.83 Like Water for Chocolate por Laura Esquivel
0.953 3.62 Agatha Christie: An English Mystery por Laura Thompson
0.952 3.86 American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump por Tim Alberta
0.951 4.08 I Am Alfonso Jones por Tony Medina
0.948 3.78 Sabrina por Nick Drnaso
0.943 3.68 An Elegant Defense por Matt Richtel
0.942 3.72 We Cast a Shadow por Maurice Carlos Ruffin
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey por Homer
0.939 4.12 The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America por Greg Grandin
0.934 4.07 Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century por Charles King
0.932 3.99 Losing Earth: A Recent History por Nathaniel Rich
0.928 3.18 New Waves por Kevin Nguyen
0.928 3.83 Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation por Andrew Marantz
0.925 4.22 Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II por Svetlana Alexievich
0.921 3.96 All the Pretty Horses por Cormac McCarthy
0.918 4.07 American Gods {original} por Neil Gaiman
0.918 3.54 The New Wilderness por Diane Cook
0.916 3.77 Cleanness por Garth Greenwell
0.913 3.58 Actress por Anne Enright
0.911 4.01 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World por Cal Newport
0.909 4.37 Churchill: Walking with Destiny por Andrew Roberts
0.908 3.92 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous por Ocean Vuong
0.908 3.59 Monogamy por Sue Miller
0.908 4.26 The Border por Don Winslow
0.904 3.54 The Topeka School por Ben Lerner
0.904 3.62 How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan To Take Back Your Life por Catherine Price
0.893 4.16 The Prophets por Robert Jones Jr.
0.892 3.99 Comics & Sequential Art por Will Eisner
0.889 3.64 The Resisters por Gish Jen
0.888 3.62 Weather por Jenny Offill
0.88 4.14 Where the Crawdads Sing por Delia Owens
0.878 4.11 All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto por George M. Johnson
0.876 3.91 Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence por Max Tegmark
0.875 3.61 Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard por Nora Ellen Groce
0.871 3.99 The Book of Longings por Sue Monk Kidd
0.871 3.91 Letters from an Astrophysicist por Neil deGrasse Tyson
0.869 3.02 A Separation por Katie Kitamura
0.869 3.87 Galatea: A Short Story por Madeline Miller
0.868 3.69 Jonny Appleseed por Joshua Whitehead
0.868 3.95 I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir por Malaka Gharib
0.867 3.91 Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe por Brian Greene
0.867 4.17 A River Runs Through It and Other Stories por Norman Maclean
0.867 4.17 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories por Lucia Berlin
0.864 4.21 Apeirogon por Colum McCann
0.864 4.25 Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home por Nora Krug
0.864 4.07 My Dark Vanessa por Kate Elizabeth Russell
0.863 3.73 Enter the Aardvark por Jessica Anthony
0.863 4.13 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones por James Clear
0.862 4.13 What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing, What Birds Are Doing and Why por David Allen Sibley
0.862 4.04 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism por Benedict Anderson
0.86 4.04 Straight Man por Richard Russo
0.86 4.26 Angle of Repose por Wallace Stegner
0.858 4.09 Wild Seed por Octavia E. Butler
0.858 4.12 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America por Beth Macy
0.856 4.15 Crossing to Safety por Wallace Earle Stegner
0.853 3.99 Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan por Steve Coll
0.851 3.79 Afterlife por Julia Alvarez
0.85 4.09 Ship Fever: Stories por Andrea Barrett
0.849 4.16 Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America por Eliza Griswold
0.846 4.02 Vesper Flights por Helen Macdonald
0.841 4.28 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels por Jon Meacham
0.84 4 The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays por Esmé Weijun Wang
0.838 4.02 Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty por Dorothy E. Roberts
0.836 3.81 The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things por Peter Wohlleben
0.833 3.84 How Beautiful We Were por Imbolo Mbue
0.831 4.18 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures por Merlin Sheldrake
0.83 4.16 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 por Steve Coll
0.822 3.77 Evening in Paradise: More Stories por Lucia Berlin
0.819 3.96 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World por Elif Shafak
0.815 4.05 The Night Watchman por Louise Erdrich
0.814 4.27 Gender Queer: A Memoir por Maia Kobabe
0.813 4 The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World por Stephen L. Brusatte
0.813 3.76 An Orchestra of Minorities por Chigozie Obioma
0.811 4.43 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents por Isabel Wilkerson
0.81 3.81 By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review por Pamela Paul
0.805 3.74 Celine por Peter Heller
0.805 4.08 Erasure por Percival Everett
0.803 4.19 Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love por Jonathan Van Ness
0.803 3.96 The Secret Commonwealth por Philip Pullman
0.803 3.85 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need por Bill Gates
0.803 3.9 Interior Chinatown por Charles Yu
0.802 4.37 Beastie Boys Book por Michael Diamond
0.801 4.17 How to Be an Antiracist por Ibram X. Kendi
0.8 3.71 War Dances por Sherman Alexie
0.799 3.81 Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History por Lewis Dartnell
0.798 4.03 A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership por James Comey
0.798 4.02 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World por David Epstein
0.796 3.84 Fruit of the Drunken Tree por Ingrid Rojas Contreras
0.795 4.28 A Burst of Light por Audre Lorde
0.794 4.51 Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World por Christopher De Hamel
0.794 3.77 Convenience Store Woman por Sayaka Murata
0.793 3.9 The Shadow King por Maaza Mengiste
0.791 4.15 Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come por Richard Preston
0.791 4.09 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them por Junauda Petrus
0.79 4.25 Citizen: An American Lyric por Claudia Rankine
0.789 4.3 Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir por Rachel Lloyd
0.789 4.19 Leadership: In Turbulent Times por Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.789 4.29 Dark city : the lost world of film noir por Eddie Muller
0.788 3.66 Transcription por Kate Atkinson
0.786 3.66 China Rich Girlfriend por Kevin Kwan
0.785 4.24 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language por David Crystal
0.784 4.41 The Magic Fish: A Graphic Novel por Trung Le Nguyen
0.784 3.87 Big Sky por Kate Atkinson
0.781 3.91 Friday Black por Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
0.778 3.8 Florida por Lauren Groff
0.777 3.74 Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis por Jared Diamond
0.777 3.99 Akata Witch por Nnedi Okorafor
0.776 3.73 Rich People Problems por Kevin Kwan
0.775 3.93 Red at the Bone por Jacqueline Woodson
0.774 4.34 The collected poems of Frank O'Hara por Frank O'Hara
0.773 4.08 This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage por Ann Patchett
0.772 4.2 Just Us: An American Conversation por Claudia Rankine
0.769 3.71 State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America por Matt Weiland
0.769 4.27 Circe por Madeline Miller
0.768 4.28 Lighter Than My Shadow por Katie Green
0.766 3.9 A Terrible Country por Keith Gessen
0.766 4.03 Quichotte por Salman Rushdie
0.765 4.17 Far from the Tree por Robin Benway
0.764 4.2 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence por Michael Pollan
0.763 3.86 Chances Are… por Richard Russo
0.762 3.88 Disappearing Earth por Julia Phillips
0.762 4.09 The Cold Millions por Jess Walter
0.761 4.16 Americanah por Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.756 4.23 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race por Reni Eddo-Lodge
0.756 4.21 Are Prisons Obsolete? por Angela Y. Davis
0.756 4.64 Superman Smashes the Klan por Gene Luen Yang
0.754 4.34 Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom por David W. Blight
0.753 4.09 The Mountains Sing por Nguyen Phan Que Mai
0.752 3.99 Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient por Norman Cousins
0.751 4.35 The Mirror & the Light por Hilary Mantel
0.751 4.32 Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art por Scott McCloud
0.75 4.28 Dig por A. S. King
0.75 4.03 Transcendent Kingdom por Yaa Gyasi
0.75 4.33 Figuring por Maria Popova
0.749 4.02 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X por Les Payne
0.747 3.47 Those Who Knew por Idra Novey
0.743 4.2 Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming por Naomi Oreskes
0.738 4.1 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure por Greg Lukianoff
0.738 4.22 With the Fire on High por Elizabeth Acevedo
0.737 4.31 How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America por Heather Cox Richardson
0.736 3.83 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism por Anne Applebaum
0.735 4.27 Superior: The Return of Race Science por Angela Saini
0.733 3.77 They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South por Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
0.732 3.87 The Other Americans: A Novel por Laila Lalami
0.729 3.74 Girl por Edna O'Brien
0.725 4.26 Deacon King Kong por James McBride
0.725 3.93 The Mercies por Kiran Millwood Hargrave
0.724 4.25 The Nickel Boys por Colson Whitehead
0.724 3.94 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? por Frans de Waal
0.722 3.85 Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee por Casey Cep
0.722 4.26 On the Come Up por Angie Thomas
0.722 4.09 The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives por Nancy Pearl
0.72 3.93 Smashed por Junji Ito
0.719 3.99 On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal por Naomi Klein
0.718 4.33 A Fire Story por Brian Fies
0.715 3.93 Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China por Jung Chang
0.712 4.05 Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? por Bill McKibben
0.711 3.59 Red Pill por Hari Kunzru
0.711 4.31 Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture por Roxane Gay
0.711 4.04 The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War por Robert J. Gordon
0.71 4.05 Abbott por Saladin Ahmed
0.71 3.92 Orange World and Other Stories por Karen Russell
0.708 4.22 Sontag: Her Life and Work por Benjamin Moser
0.706 4.37 We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria por Wendy Pearlman
0.706 3.81 It's Not All Downhill From Here por Terry McMillan
0.704 3.83 Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life por William Deresiewicz
0.7 3.92 Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland por Jonathan M. Metzl
0.698 4.02 Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond por Marc Lamont Hill
0.698 3.89 A Burning por Megha Majumdar
0.697 3.87 Everything Inside: Stories por Edwidge Danticat
0.695 4.56 Know My Name: A Memoir por Chanel Miller
0.695 4.39 East West Street por Philippe Sands
0.691 4.14 The Body: A Guide for Occupants por Bill Bryson
0.691 4.47 So You Want to Talk About Race por Ijeoma Oluo
0.69 3.62 The Parade por Dave Eggers
0.687 4.06 The Vanishing Half por Brit Bennett
0.686 4.46 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America por Ibram X. Kendi
0.684 4.31 American Dialogue: The Founders and Us por Joseph J. Ellis
0.683 4 A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities por Mady G
0.683 4.23 Men We Reaped por Jesmyn Ward
0.68 4.44 In the Dream House: A Memoir por Carmen Maria Machado
0.679 4.37 Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos por Lucy Knisley
0.679 4.12 The End of Policing por Alex S. Vitale
0.678 4.18 Your House Will Pay por Steph Cha
0.678 4.42 They Called Us Enemy por George Takei
0.676 4.62 Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood por J. Michael Straczynski
0.674 4.03 I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche por Sue Prideaux
0.673 3.92 The Yellow House: A Memoir por Sarah M. Broom
0.671 4.26 Patron Saints of Nothing por Randy Ribay
0.669 3.85 Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow por Henry Louis Jr Gates
0.669 4.44 The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 por Rick Atkinson
0.668 4.24 Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves por Glory Edim
0.666 4.18 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race {2017} por Beverly Daniel Tatum
0.655 4.18 Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir por Robin Ha
0.649 4.25 The Undocumented Americans por Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
0.649 4.36 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America por Richard Rothstein
0.648 4.2 War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence por Ronan Farrow
0.643 4.27 Why We're Polarized por Ezra Klein
0.64 3.89 Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands por Dan Jones
0.64 4.26 Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy por David Zucchino
0.629 3.62 The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine por Thomas Morris
0.629 4.19 The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner por Daniel Ellsberg
0.622 4.18 The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present por David Treuer
0.614 3.97 Parkland por Dave Cullen
0.609 4.17 The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy por Anna Clark
0.607 4.44 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II por Douglas A. Blackmon
0.6 4.08 The Barefoot Woman por Scholastique Mukasonga
0.589 3.94 How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon por Rosa Brooks
0.582 4.23 Last Night at the Telegraph Club por Malinda Lo
0.58 4.47 Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations por Mira Jacob
0.566 4.26 A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America por T. Christian Miller
0.558 4.38 American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts por Chris McGreal
0.526 4.25 Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America por Stacey Abrams