Controversial Books for SeattleBookFiend

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
1.174 3.73 The Pilgrim's Progress de John Bunyan
1.103 4.09 The Diary of Samuel Pepys de Samuel Pepys
1.091 3.19 Prague de Arthur Phillips
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë
1.078 3.92 The Chalice and The Blade de Riane Eisler
1.067 3.83 Michelin Green Guide Paris de Michelin Travel Publications
1.066 3.41 The Little Friend de Donna Tartt
1.062 3.46 Marius the Epicurean de Walter Pater
1.054 3.54 The Daydreamer de Ian McEwan
1.044 3.62 The Lesson of the Master de Henry James
1.039 4.19 A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method de Sir Banister Fletcher
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises de Ernest Hemingway
1.029 4.22 The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating de Fergus Henderson
1.024 3.81 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson de Camille Paglia
1.018 3.68 Appetite for Life de Noël Riley Fitch
1.011 3.38 At Home in France de Ann Barry
1.01 3.55 From Bauhaus to Our House de Tom Wolfe
0.998 3.48 Vamps and Tramps: New Essays de Camille Paglia
0.991 3.9 The Portrait of a Lady de Henry James
0.986 3.76 Aurora Leigh de Elizabeth Barrett Browning
0.985 3.45 Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There de David Brooks
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey de J. D. Salinger
0.983 3.66 Ride with Me, Mariah Montana de Ivan Doig
0.978 3.93 Atonement de Ian McEwan
0.976 3.75 Nana de Émile Zola
0.973 3.77 A Favourite of the Gods de Sybille Bedford
0.97 3.94 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám de Omar Khayyám
0.97 3.58 This Side of Paradise de F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.967 3.74 Julius Caesar de William Shakespeare
0.961 3.68 Saturday de Ian McEwan
0.96 3.49 Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays de Camille Paglia
0.959 3.45 The Last Tycoon de F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.958 3.87 A Trilogia de Nova York de Paul Auster
0.957 3.28 Iphigenia in Tauris de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.957 3.92 My Ántonia de Willa Cather
0.953 3.69 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories de Ernest Hemingway
0.952 3.8 The Mill on the Floss de George Eliot
0.952 3.82 The Birds (BFI Film Classics) de Camille Paglia
0.949 3.99 The Journals of Sylvia Plath {abridged} de Sylvia Plath
0.949 3.84 The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages de Harold Bloom
0.948 3.8 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation de Lynne Truss
0.938 4.11 A Divina Comédia de Dante Alighieri
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë
0.924 3.93 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres de Henry Adams
0.921 3.48 Absolute Friends de John le Carré
0.914 4.05 Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution de Simon Schama
0.912 3.79 Spy Sinker de Len Deighton
0.912 3.88 La Vita Nuova de Dante Alighieri
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass de Lewis Carroll
0.904 4.09 A Christmas Carol de Charles Dickens
0.901 3.74 The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook de Julee Rosso
0.898 3.72 Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls de Mary Pipher
0.888 3.9 Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human de Harold Bloom
0.888 3.91 Crônica de uma morte anunciada de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.886 3.61 The Night Manager de John le Carré
0.886 3.53 On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now [and Always Have] in the Future Tense de David Brooks
0.871 4.02 Winter Brothers : A Season at the Edge of America de Ivan Doig
0.849 3.9 Marie Antoinette: The Journey de Antonia Fraser
0.848 3.83 The Kitchen God's Wife de Amy Tan
0.847 4.01 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers de Paul Kennedy
0.846 4.32 The Polar Express de Chris Van Allsburg
0.845 4.04 My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson de Alfred Habegger
0.842 4.01 The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had de Susan Wise Bauer
0.842 3.78 Cakes and Ale de W. Somerset Maugham
0.838 3.9 The Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.83 3.87 Home; a Short History of an Idea de Witold Rybczynski
0.828 3.96 Dark Star de Alan Furst
0.826 4.35 Joy of Cooking [1975] de Irma S. Rombauer
0.823 4.34 Roget's International Thesaurus de Peter Mark Roget
0.82 4.32 Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery de Madhur Jaffrey
0.815 3.81 Seven Ages of Paris de Alistair Horne
0.813 4.13 Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker de Anthony Lane
0.812 3.84 Vermeer: A View of Delft de Anthony Bailey
0.805 3.86 Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure de Donald Kladstrup
0.803 3.86 Bitter Lemons de Lawrence Durrell
0.801 4.2 Rembrandt's eyes de Simon Schama
0.801 4.11 Paris (Eyewitness Travel Guides) de Alan Tillier
0.795 4.15 English Creek de Ivan Doig
0.794 4.01 Rumpole and the Primrose Path de John Mortimer
0.791 3.53 The History of Henry Esmond de William Makepeace Thackeray
0.79 3.88 House de Tracy Kidder
0.79 4.15 My Life in France de Julia Child
0.786 4.25 Western Garden Book de Sunset Editors
0.778 3.98 Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes de Steven Raichlen
0.765 4.07 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World de Margaret MacMillan
0.76 4.31 French Provincial Cooking de Elizabeth David
0.759 4.19 Theodore Rex de Edmund Morris
0.742 3.77 The Days of the French Revolution de Christopher Hibbert
0.741 4.03 Disney War de James B. Stewart
0.718 4.37 This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind de Ivan Doig
0.714 3.41 Sons of the Profits de William C. Speidel
0.704 3.8 Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems de Camille Paglia
0.701 4.41 French Cheeses: The Visual Guide to More Than 350 Cheeses from Every Region of France de Kazuko Masui
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare de William Shakespeare
0.696 4.44 Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers de Dorie Greenspan
0.693 4.03 Rumpole and the Golden Thread de John Mortimer
0.69 4.07 Patricia Wells at Home in Provence de Patricia Wells
0.673 4.43 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Return of Sherlock Holmes de Arthur Conan Doyle
0.604 4.51 Red Ranger Came Calling de Berkeley Breathed