Controversial Books for therealjames6

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
1.253 3.72 The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire por David Deida
1.221 3.72 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos por Jordan B. Peterson
1.202 3.59 Zen Guitar por Philip Toshio Sudo
1.187 3.72 Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way por Rick Carson
1.165 3.54 She: Understanding Feminine Psychology por Robert A. Johnson
1.134 3.58 Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! por Robert T. Kiyosaki
1.133 3.25 The Courtship of Princess Leia por Dave Wolverton
1.127 3.77 The Teaching of Buddha por Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces por John Kennedy Toole
1.115 3.65 Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem por Matthew McKay
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making por Dave Eggers
1.107 3.64 Love Is Letting Go of Fear por Gerald G. Jampolsky
1.105 4.26 The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness por John Yates
1.099 3.88 Dynamics of Faith por Paul Tillich
1.091 3.91 Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers por Timothy Ferriss
1.086 3.98 The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece por Three Initiates
1.082 3.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values por Robert M. Pirsig
1.076 3.89 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy por David D. Burns
1.074 3.82 The Relationship Cure por John Gottman
1.072 3.79 How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day por Michael J. Gelb
1.066 3.6 StrengthsFinder 2.0 por Tom Rath
1.064 3.88 Walden / Civil Disobedience por Henry David Thoreau
1.053 3.79 The Gunslinger por Stephen King
1.046 3.86 Stranger in a Strange Land por Robert A. Heinlein
1.045 3.85 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change por Stephen R. Covey
1.032 3.75 Maia por Richard Adams
1.029 3.88 The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth por M. Scott Peck
1.021 3.78 The Grief Recovery Handbook por John W. James
1.021 3.57 The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge por Carlos Castaneda
1.018 3.95 The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph por Ryan Holiday
1.016 4.04 The Denial of Death por Ernest Becker
1.013 4.09 House of Leaves por Mark Z. Danielewski
1.013 3.44 The Te of Piglet por Benjamin Hoff
1.012 3.89 The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery por Jeremy Silman
1.01 4.18 Cem anos de solidão por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian por Cormac McCarthy
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath por John Steinbeck
1.003 3.87 The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want por Sonja Lyubomirsky
1.002 3.79 No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life por Robert A. Glover
1 3.78 Sophie's World por Jostein Gaarder
0.997 4.1 The Prophet por Kahlil Gibran
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms por Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.54 Shardik por Richard Adams
0.992 3.39 How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships por Leil Lowndes
0.987 4 The Amber Spyglass por Philip Pullman
0.986 3.94 The God Delusion por Richard Dawkins
0.986 3.92 Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye por Brad Warner
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being por Milan Kundera
0.985 3.8 The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living por Russ Harris
0.982 3.81 Creatures of Light and Darkness por Roger Zelazny
0.976 4.13 Shantaram por Gregory David Roberts
0.971 3.4 Use Both Sides of Your Brain: New Mind-Mapping Techniques, Third Edition (Plume) por Tony Buzan
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men por John Steinbeck
0.966 3.79 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle por Stuart Turton
0.965 3.31 Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem por Amir D. Aczel
0.96 3.95 Necroscope por Brian Lumley
0.958 4.07 It por Stephen King
0.956 3.8 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test por Tom Wolfe
0.955 3.87 Models: Attract Women Through Honesty por Mark Manson
0.955 4.04 A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life por Jack Kornfield
0.955 3.98 To Have or to Be? por Erich Fromm
0.954 3.87 The Dharma Bums por Jack Kerouac
0.952 3.86 The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness por Mark Williams
0.952 4 Introduction to Tantra : The Transformation of Desire por Lama Thubten Yeshe
0.948 4.04 The Art of Racing in the Rain por Garth Stein
0.945 3.89 Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within por Kenny Werner
0.945 3.79 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin por Benjamin Franklin
0.944 4.15 Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) por Walt Whitman
0.942 4.07 Northern Lights por Philip Pullman
0.939 4.1 The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living por Ryan Holiday
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange por Anthony Burgess
0.936 3.5 The Stars, Like Dust por Isaac Asimov
0.936 3.95 The Stranger por Albert Camus
0.935 3.56 Eating Well for Optimum Health por Andrew Weil
0.931 4.2 Neuromancer Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive por William Gibson
0.931 3.75 The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell por Aldous Huxley
0.93 3.68 Play Winning Chess por Yasser Seirawan
0.926 3.61 He: Understanding Masculine Psychology por Robert A. Johnson
0.921 3.85 Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques por Michael Michalko
0.921 4.11 The Source por James A. Michener
0.92 3.83 Jack of Shadows por Roger Zelazny
0.92 4.21 Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day por Leanne Brown
0.919 3.66 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain por Oliver Sacks
0.919 3.98 The Gift of Fear por Gavin De Becker
0.918 4.07 American Gods {original} por Neil Gaiman
0.916 4.12 The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear por Walter Moers
0.916 4.19 Hyperion por Dan Simmons
0.915 3.96 Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life por Jon Kabat-Zinn
0.915 3.71 Junky por William S. Burroughs
0.915 4.06 Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot por Lon Milo DuQuette
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front por Erich Maria Remarque
0.913 4.13 Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art por Stephen Nachmanovitch
0.91 3.81 Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom por Joseph Goldstein
0.91 3.51 Time Storm por Gordon R. Dickson
0.908 3.74 The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life por Nathaniel Branden
0.908 4.26 War and Peace por Leo Tolstoy
0.906 4.18 Loving-kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness por Sharon Salzberg
0.905 4.09 Snow Crash por Neal Stephenson
0.901 3.98 I Will Teach You To Be Rich por Ramit Sethi
0.9 3.96 Heir To The Empire por Timothy Zahn
0.899 4.01 The Mysterious Benedict Society por Trenton Lee Stewart
0.897 3.94 Norwegian Wood por Haruki Murakami
0.896 4 The Last Command por Timothy Zahn
0.893 4.1 The Meditations por Marcus Aurelius
0.893 4.05 The Subtle Knife por Philip Pullman
0.891 3.99 Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames por Thich Nhat Hanh
0.89 3.95 The Wisdom of Insecurity por Alan W. Watts
0.89 4.19 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind por Shunryu Suzuki
0.889 4.06 The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within por Stephen Fry
0.886 4.11 Thinking, Fast and Slow por Daniel Kahneman
0.884 4.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies por Jared Diamond
0.882 4.13 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century por Timothy Snyder
0.882 4.06 The Miracle of Mindfulness por Thich Nhat Hanh
0.882 4.15 The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation por Thich Nhat Hanh
0.882 3.93 The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers por Will Durant
0.881 4.27 Dune por Frank Herbert
0.881 4.23 Tao Te Ching por Lao Tzu
0.88 3.94 Dark Force Rising por Timothy Zahn
0.88 3.59 The Currents of Space por Isaac Asimov
0.88 4.07 OS DRAGÕES DO ÉDEN por Carl Sagan
0.877 4.16 The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition por Stephen William Hawking
0.875 3.82 Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopædia por David Day
0.875 3.65 Pebble in the Sky por Isaac Asimov
0.875 4.11 Ender's Shadow por Orson Scott Card
0.874 3.85 The Universe in a Nutshell por Stephen Hawking
0.874 4.08 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression por Andrew Solomon
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind por Yuval Noah Harari
0.869 4.29 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition por Stephen King
0.868 4.09 The Silence of the Lambs por Thomas Harris
0.867 3.82 The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet por Matthieu Ricard
0.865 3.84 A Guide to Rational Living por Albert Ellis
0.864 3.95 Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World por Lama Surya Das
0.862 4.35 Mushrooms Demystified por David Arora
0.857 3.85 Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time por Michael Shermer
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game por Orson Scott Card
0.854 4.15 The Portable Nietzsche por Friedrich Nietzsche
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring por J. R. R. Tolkien
0.853 4.23 1984 por George Orwell
0.852 3.75 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race por Jon Stewart
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov por Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.852 4.36 The Name of the Wind por Patrick Rothfuss
0.851 4.05 A Random Walk Down Wall Street por Burton G. Malkiel
0.85 4.2 The Lies of Locke Lamora por Scott Lynch
0.85 3.91 Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics) por Joseph Goldstein
0.849 4.13 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World por Tracy Kidder
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid por Douglas Hofstadter
0.846 3.84 Equal Rites por Terry Pratchett
0.841 3.96 Chasing Lincoln's Killer por James L. Swanson
0.841 4.21 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism por Chogyam Trungpa
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest por Ken Kesey
0.84 4.35 The Book Thief por Markus Zusak
0.839 3.99 The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True por Richard Dawkins
0.839 3.96 Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders por Neil Gaiman
0.838 3.82 Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power por Andrew Weil
0.837 4.01 The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk por William J. Bernstein
0.836 3.94 Necroscope II: Wamphyri! por Brian Lumley
0.834 4.28 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark por Carl Sagan
0.833 4.06 1776 por David McCullough
0.83 4.12 Nation por Terry Pratchett
0.829 3.84 Count Zero por William Gibson
0.827 4.1 Miles: The Autobiography por Miles Davis
0.825 3.47 Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow por Tom Rath
0.823 3.85 The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field por Nathaniel Branden
0.822 4.01 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto por Michael Pollan
0.82 3.99 Welcome to the Monkey House por Kurt Vonnegut
0.818 4.07 Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation por Bill Nye
0.816 3.88 Horus Rising por Dan Abnett
0.811 4.39 East of Eden por John Steinbeck
0.808 4.09 Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer por James L. Swanson
0.806 4.4 The Two Towers por J. R. R. Tolkien
0.804 4.28 Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation por Larry Rosenberg
0.801 4.17 The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology por Jack Kornfield
0.801 3.98 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory por Brian Greene
0.8 4.15 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl por Timothy Egan
0.8 4.18 The Graveyard Book por Neil Gaiman
0.799 3.84 You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises por Mark Lauren
0.796 3.06 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy por Jay Stevenson
0.795 4.16 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution por Richard Dawkins
0.794 4.14 What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada por Walpola Rahula
0.79 4.08 The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality por Brian Greene
0.783 4.3 Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life por Thich Nhat Hanh
0.773 3.79 Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life por Lama Surya Das
0.773 4.2 Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living por Pema Chödrön
0.771 4.35 Guide To Getting It On por Paul Joannides
0.771 4.45 The Way of Kings por Brandon Sanderson
0.768 4.43 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy por Douglas Adams
0.768 4.47 The Return of the King por J. R. R. Tolkien
0.757 4.29 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language por Houghton Mifflin Company
0.743 3.81 The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain por David Shenk
0.737 3.67 Alone on the Wall por Alex Honnold
0.731 3.91 The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath por John Steinbeck
0.724 4.43 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt por Edmund Morris
0.722 4.2 The Holy Man por Susan Trott
0.686 3.74 Point Your Face at This: Drawings por Demetri Martin
0.681 4.17 The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy por Irving Chernev