Controversial Books for tarantula7

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
1.243 3.88 Finnegans Wake por James Joyce
1.213 3.36 Oration on the Dignity of Man por Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1.207 2.89 Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded por Samuel Richardson
1.206 4.01 Ulysses por James Joyce
1.197 3.96 The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling por An English Mystic of the Fourteenth Century
1.164 3.43 The Complete Odes and Epodes por Horace
1.163 3.72 The Phenomenology of Spirit por G. W. F. Hegel
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick por Herman Melville
1.143 3.63 Tropic of Cancer por Henry Miller
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye por J. D. Salinger
1.127 3.5 Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness por Henri Bergson
1.127 4.05 Gravity's Rainbow por Thomas Pynchon
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces por John Kennedy Toole
1.115 3.91 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman por Laurence Sterne
1.099 3.59 On The Suffering of the World por Arthur Schopenhauer
1.093 3.57 The Holy Qur'an (Abdullah Yusuf Ali ∙ 1934) por al-Qur'an
1.092 3.82 Walden por Henry David Thoreau
1.084 3.99 The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated: Paradise, Vol. 1 por Dante Alighieri
1.084 4.22 Infinite Jest por David Foster Wallace
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying por William Faulkner
1.075 3.65 The experience economy: work is theatre & every business a stage por B. Joseph Pine
1.07 3.13 Oroonoko [Norton Critical Edition] por Aphra Behn
1.067 3.64 Civilization and Its Discontents por Sigmund Freud
1.064 3.55 Liquid Modernity por Zygmunt Bauman
1.054 3.94 Confessions por Saint Augustine
1.046 4 War and War por Laszlo Krasznahorkai
1.041 3.71 The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions) por Kate Chopin
1.041 3.59 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep por Jonathan Crary
1.038 3.72 Dream of the Red Chamber [Abridged] por Tsao Hsueh-Chin
1.028 3.98 A Short History of Decay por E. M. Cioran
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe por Daniel Defoe
1.023 3.85 Call It Sleep por Henry Roth
1.023 3.71 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics por N. Katherine Hayles
1.021 4.13 Absalom, Absalom! por William Faulkner
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer por William Gibson
1.017 4.06 Don Quixote por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.72 Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous por George Berkeley
1.016 4.04 The Denial of Death por Ernest Becker
1.014 3.6 Existentialism Is a Humanism por Jean-Paul Sartre
1.012 3.81 Beowulf por Beowulf Poet
1.011 3.11 The Castle of Otranto por Horace Walpole
1.008 4.17 Blood Meridian por Cormac McCarthy
1.008 3.91 On Christian Teaching por St. Augustine
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations por Kate L. Turabian
1.003 3.27 The Book of Margery Kempe [Norton Critical Edition] por Margery Kempe
1.001 3.87 The New Science por Giambattista Vico
1.001 3.86 Doctor Zhivago por Boris Pasternak
0.999 3.55 Wide Sargasso Sea por Jean Rhys
0.996 3.19 The Blazing World and Other Writings por Margaret Cavendish
0.994 3.75 Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories por Edith Wharton
0.993 3.89 The Rose That Grew From Concrete por Tupac Shakur
0.991 3.91 Heart of Darkness / Youth / The End of the Tether por Joseph Conrad
0.99 3.51 The House of the Seven Gables por Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.989 3.92 Faust I & II por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey por J. D. Salinger
0.984 4.12 Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth por Chris Ware
0.984 3.94 The Castle por Franz Kafka
0.982 3.97 The Upanishads por Anonymous
0.978 3.58 On the Social Contract por Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0.978 3.92 Valis por Philip K. Dick
0.978 3.92 The Tale of Genji por Shikibu Murasaki
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God por Zora Neale Hurston
0.975 3.91 Orientalism por Edward W. Said
0.974 3.8 Ghost World por Daniel Clowes
0.974 3.83 Fear and Trembling por Søren Kierkegaard
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers por Charles Dickens
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart por Chinua Achebe
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men por John Steinbeck
0.968 3.72 The Prince por Niccolò Machiavelli
0.968 3.73 The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to 1875 (Norton Anthology of American Literature) por Nina Baym
0.965 3.37 Language, Truth and Logic por A. J. Ayer
0.965 3.61 Pimp: The Story of My Life por Iceberg Slim
0.964 3.84 Parzival por Wolfram von Eschenbach
0.964 3.51 Utopia por Thomas More
0.963 3.94 Compendio da obra da riqueza das nações por Adam Smith
0.963 3.93 Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution por Terence McKenna
0.962 3.1 Captain Singleton por Daniel Defoe
0.962 4.03 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles por Mike Davis
0.962 3.78 The Scarlet Letter [Norton Critical Edition] por Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid por Virgil
0.96 4.15 Independent People por Halldór Laxness
0.959 3.72 It Can't Happen Here por Sinclair Lewis
0.958 3.7 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court por Mark Twain
0.958 3.97 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter por Carson McCullers
0.957 3.56 The Bostonians por Henry James
0.956 4.03 The Iliad por Homer
0.951 4.01 The Practice of Everyday Life por Michel de Certeau
0.949 4 The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition, Volume 2 por Wayne Franklin
0.948 4.12 The Poetics of Space por Gaston Bachelard
0.948 3.88 Civil Disobedience and Other Essays por Henry David Thoreau
0.947 3.99 Madame Bovary [Norton Critical Edition] por Gustave Flaubert
0.946 3.9 The Psychoanalysis of Fire por Gaston Bachelard
0.945 3.79 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin por Benjamin Franklin
0.943 4.11 The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters por Baruch Spinoza
0.942 4.02 The Odyssey por Homer
0.941 3.85 The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching por Terence McKenna
0.941 3.72 Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 1) por Alan C. Martin
0.939 3.81 The Three-Body Problem por Cixin Liu
0.938 3.83 Sula por Toni Morrison
0.937 3.72 Terra de Neve por Yasunari Kawabata
0.936 3.64 An Outcast of the Islands por Joseph Conrad
0.936 4.41 Swann's Way & Within A Budding Grove por Marcel Proust
0.936 3.81 Fences por August Wilson
0.932 4.23 A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries por Mircéa Eliade
0.932 3.76 Of a Fire on the Moon por Norman Mailer
0.932 4.02 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave por Frederick Douglass
0.93 4.08 The Inferno por Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist por Charles Dickens
0.927 3.74 20,000 Leagues under the Sea por Jules Verne
0.926 3.89 Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power por Byung-Chul Han
0.924 3.99 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions por Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.93 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres por Henry Adams
0.923 4.16 Jitterbug Perfume por Tom Robbins
0.922 3.66 Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life por Herman Melville
0.922 4.08 The Grass Harp: Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories por Truman Capote
0.92 3.75 Two Treatises of Government por John Locke
0.918 3.82 Treasure Island por Robert Louis Stevenson
0.918 3.98 The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces por Franz Kafka
0.918 4.19 The Complete Poetry of John Milton por John Milton
0.917 4.03 Hunger por Knut Hamsun
0.916 3.97 Common Sense por Thomas Paine
0.916 4.02 Basic Writings por Martin Heidegger
0.914 4 O Triunfo dos Porcos por George Orwell
0.914 3.99 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction por J. D. Salinger
0.912 3.99 The Master of Go por Yasunari Kawabata
0.912 4.11 The Wretched of the Earth por Frantz Fanon
0.912 3.63 The History of the Kings of Britain por Geoffrey of Monmouth
0.911 3.5 Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts por Catharine Maria Sedgwick
0.911 3.68 Hegel: A Very Short Introduction por Peter Singer
0.91 4.25 Crime and Punishment por Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.91 3.77 A History of Mathematics por Carl B. Boyer
0.91 3.48 The Pastoral Symphony por André Gide
0.91 3.75 Kidnapped por Robert Louis Stevenson
0.908 4.3 John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) por John Keats
0.907 3.97 The Conference of the Birds por Farid Ud-Din Attar
0.907 4.07 Pearl por Gawain Poet
0.906 3.84 Other Voices, Other Rooms por Truman Capote
0.906 3.73 The Time Machine por H. G. Wells
0.906 3.91 The Seagull por Anton Tschechow
0.906 3.72 The Divine Invasion por Philip K. Dick
0.904 4.04 V. por Thomas Pynchon
0.904 3.86 The Yellow Arrow (New Directions Paperbook) por Viktor Pelevin
0.901 4.08 The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet por Eleanor Cameron
0.9 3.85 Intruder in the Dust por William Faulkner
0.898 3.97 A Scanner Darkly por Philip K. Dick
0.897 4.04 Man and His Symbols por Carl Gustav Jung
0.897 3.83 Northanger Abbey por Jane Austen
0.896 3.95 The Plague por Albert Camus
0.895 3.99 The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides por Aeschylus
0.894 3.96 Dracula por Bram Stoker
0.894 3.97 A Morte de Ivan Ilitch por Leo Tolstoy
0.894 4.12 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners por James Joyce
0.894 3.94 Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions) por Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
0.893 4.11 Meditations por Marcus Aurelius
0.893 3.95 The Futurological Congress por Stanisław Lem
0.891 4.11 Metamorphoses [in translation] por Ovid
0.89 3.86 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting por Milan Kundera
0.889 3.86 How to Write a Thesis por Umberto Eco
0.889 3.68 The Nun por Denis Diderot
0.888 3.35 The Associate por John Grisham
0.887 4.14 The Complete Plays of Sophocles por Sophocles
0.886 3.76 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. por Washington Irving
0.884 3.84 The Book of Tea por Kakuzō Okakura
0.882 4.43 Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements por Malcolm X
0.881 4.01 The Decameron por Giovanni Boccaccio
0.881 4.27 Dune por Frank Herbert
0.88 3.68 The Prince and the Pauper por Mark Twain
0.879 4.07 Blankets por Craig Thompson
0.878 3.9 The Pale King por David Foster Wallace
0.877 3.93 In Praise of Shadows por Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
0.875 3.95 Kokoro por Natsume Soseki
0.873 3.9 This Boy's Life por Tobias Wolff
0.872 3.8 Old School por Tobias Wolff
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle por Haruki Murakami
0.867 4.09 A Coney Island of the Mind por Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit por J. R. R. Tolkien
0.865 4.41 Plato: Complete Works por Plato
0.864 4.11 McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue por Dave Eggers
0.863 4.2 The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming por Masanobu Fukuoka
0.863 3.73 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde por Robert Louis Stevenson
0.861 3.97 Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies por Reyner Banham
0.86 3.84 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer por Philip K. Dick
0.86 3.82 At Day's Close: Night in Times Past por A. Roger Ekirch
0.86 4.02 Idylls of the King por Alfred Tennyson
0.86 3.02 An Experiment with Time por J. W. Dunne
0.852 4.38 The Brothers Karamazov por Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.852 3.88 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth por Reza Aslan
0.852 3.67 Larousse French English Dictionary por Larousse
0.848 4.33 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid por Douglas Hofstadter
0.848 3.8 Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates por Slavoj Žižek
0.847 3.82 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories por Truman Capote
0.847 4.02 Southern California: An Island on the Land por Carey McWilliams
0.847 3.95 Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles por Euripides
0.845 4 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? por Mark Fisher
0.845 4.04 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline por George Saunders
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood por Truman Capote
0.842 4.14 Nine Stories por J. D. Salinger
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich por Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.841 4.21 Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will por Judith Schalansky
0.841 3.67 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir por Haruki Murakami
0.837 3.17 The City: A Global History por Joel Kotkin
0.837 4.22 Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters por Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
0.836 3.99 The Illustrated Man por Ray Bradbury
0.836 4.16 Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days por Jessica Livingston
0.835 3.49 Wind / Pinball: Two Novels por Haruki Murakami
0.834 3.81 The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology por Faubion Bowers
0.827 4.27 The Autobiography of Malcolm X por Malcolm X
0.825 3.94 McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern) por Dave Eggers
0.821 4.21 Stories of Your Life and Others por Ted Chiang
0.818 3.88 The Best of Saki por Saki
0.815 3.81 Seven Ages of Paris por Alistair Horne
0.814 4.04 Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary por K. M. Elisabeth Murray
0.813 3.64 A Journal of the Plague Year por Daniel Defoe
0.811 3.76 Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World por Adrian Goldsworthy
0.811 3.67 Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism por Paul Boghossian
0.809 4.33 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols. 1-3 {unabridged - Everyman 6v.} por Edward Gibbon
0.809 4.32 The Death and Life of Great American Cities por Jane Jacobs
0.806 4.03 Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges por Antonin Scalia
0.806 4.09 The Old Regime and the French Revolution por Alexis de Tocqueville
0.805 4.27 Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 por Fred Anderson
0.801 4.01 Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death por Yoel Hoffmann
0.8 3.99 Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home por James Tiptree Jr.
0.799 3.89 The Arabian Nights por Muhsin Mahdi
0.799 4.08 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake por Breece D'J Pancake
0.797 4.24 100 Selected Poems por E. E. Cummings
0.793 3.84 The Weird and the Eerie por Mark Fisher
0.792 4.09 The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 por Arthur Quiller-Couch
0.791 4.09 Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher por Richard Feynman
0.786 3.73 Sartoris por William Faulkner
0.782 3.43 Wraiths of Time por Andre Norton
0.78 4.35 Collected Poems por W. B. Yeats
0.776 3.77 Men Without Women por Haruki Murakami
0.773 4.36 The Chicago Manual of Style por University of Chicago Press Staff
0.767 4.09 Pachinko por Min Jin Lee
0.767 3.94 Music for Chameleons por Truman Capote
0.767 4.42 Labyrinths por Jorge Luis Borges
0.765 4.41 Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] por Leo Tolstoy
0.762 3.81 How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup por J. L. Carr
0.762 3.71 Libraries in the Ancient World por Lionel Casson
0.762 4.06 Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster por Mike Davis
0.761 4.05 South: The Endurance Expedition por Ernest Shackleton
0.76 3.73 1812: The War That Forged a Nation por Walter R. Borneman
0.757 3.72 Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace por D.T. Max
0.756 4.21 Are Prisons Obsolete? por Angela Y. Davis
0.752 3.62 The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative por H. Porter Abbott
0.75 4.47 A Personal Anthology por Jorge Luis Borges
0.75 4.24 Critical Theory Since Plato por Hazard Adams
0.748 3.71 Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle por S. Marc Cohen
0.746 3.02 Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics [2009] por Brian Azzarello
0.744 4.4 Building Stories por Chris Ware
0.742 3.52 Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture por Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.738 3.74 Great Short Stories by American Women por Candace Ward
0.733 4 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions) por Benjamin R. Foster
0.728 4.2 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time por Karl Polanyi
0.708 4.16 The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents por Russ McDonald
0.698 4.4 On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems por Kurt Gödel
0.698 4 History and Utopia por E. M. Cioran
0.691 3.09 Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker por Charles Brockden Brown
0.683 4.16 Complete Works of Tacitus por Publius Cornelius Tacitus
0.673 4.37 Thought and Language por Lev S. Vygotsky
0.672 4.11 The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures por Library of Congress
0.634 4.59 The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two: January 1788 to August 1788 por Bernard Bailyn
0.584 4.44 The literature of ancient Egypt; an anthology of stories, instructions, and poetry por William Kelly Simpson
0.56 4.65 The Debate on the Constitution, Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 por Bernard Bailyn