Controversial Books for Alogon

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
1.306 3.76 Adventures of Ideas de Alfred North Whitehead
1.279 3.2 Ah, Wilderness! de Eugene O'Neill
1.275 3.35 Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith de Josh McDowell
1.26 3.44 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life de Richard J. Herrnstein
1.243 3.88 Finnegans Wake de James Joyce
1.153 3.57 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle de John D. Barrow
1.146 4.32 The Oxford Book of Carols de Percy Dearmer
1.143 3.64 Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 de William Bradford
1.136 3.92 The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius de St. Ignatius of Loyola
1.13 3.78 What It Means to Be a Libertarian de Charles Murray
1.122 3.58 Darwin on Trial de Phillip E. Johnson
1.122 3.8 Robert's Rules of Order de Henry M. Robert
1.118 3.77 Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious Living de Amy Vanderbilt
1.115 3.25 The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age de John Horgan
1.109 3.27 The Last Days of Pompeii de Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
1.1 3.43 Unix in a Nutshell: System V & Solaris 2.0 de Daniel Gilly
1.098 4.23 Catecismo da Igreja Católica de Catholic Church
1.095 3.27 Tom Brown's School Days de Thomas Hughes
1.094 3.19 On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers de Friedrich Schleiermacher
1.091 3.57 A Separate Peace de John Knowles
1.089 4.02 A Swarm in May de William Mayne
1.089 3.75 Sartor Resartus de Thomas Carlyle
1.082 3.96 The Official Preppy Handbook de Lisa Birnbach
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë
1.079 3.6 The Closing of the American Mind de Allan Bloom
1.074 3.7 Book of Mercy de Leonard Cohen
1.072 3.76 Honest to God de John A. T. Robinson
1.069 3.84 The Case for Christianity de C. S. Lewis
1.069 3.86 O Silmarillion de J. R. R. Tolkien
1.065 3.94 The Holy Bible: The New English Bible With Apocrypha de Joint Committee Bible
1.063 3.46 Beyond Freedom & Dignity de B. F. Skinner
1.059 3.48 Nimitz Class de Patrick Robinson
1.059 3.76 The Idea of the Holy de Rudolf Otto
1.056 3.91 Science and Human Values de Jacob Bronowski
1.051 4.12 Walden and Other Writings de Henry David Thoreau
1.05 3.82 Tess of the D'Urbervilles de Thomas Hardy
1.049 3.87 O Pêndulo de Foucaul de Umberto Eco
1.047 3.77 A New Science of Life de Rupert Sheldrake
1.044 3.64 Reader's Digest How to Do Just About Anything de Reader's Digest
1.044 3.57 Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships de Eric Berne
1.043 3.71 O Senhor das Moscas de William Golding
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales de Geoffrey Chaucer
1.03 3.85 O grande Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 4.1 The Imitation of Christ de Thomas : von Kempen
1.029 3.45 Age of faith de Anne Fremantle
1.029 3.87 The Revolt of the Angels de Anatole France
1.025 3.56 The Way of All Flesh de Samuel Butler
1.024 3.82 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson de Camille Paglia
1.021 4.15 Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 de Benjamin Franklin
1.02 3.71 Man's Fate de André Malraux
1.016 3.7 Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous de George Berkeley
1.016 3.63 The Phenomenon of Man de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.015 3.65 The Fancy Dancer: A Novel de Patricia Nell Warren
1.012 3.81 Beowulf de Seamus Heaney
1.012 3.82 Ryan White: My Own Story de Ryan White
1.009 3.58 Lisp (3rd Edition) de Patrick Henry Winston
1.004 3.88 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations de Kate L. Turabian
1.003 3.95 Como Fazer Amigos e Influenciar Pessoas de Dale Carnegie
1.001 3.87 The Republic de Plato
0.999 3.8 On the Nature of Things de Titus Lucretius Carus
0.998 3.78 The Education of Henry Adams de Henry Adams
0.996 3.72 Green Mansions de W. H. Hudson
0.993 3.54 Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit de Garry Wills
0.992 3.89 Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance de Julia Angwin
0.989 3.75 Droll Stories de Honoré de Balzac
0.988 4.1 A Origem das Espécies de Charles Darwin
0.988 3.96 Best Russian Short Stories de Thomas Seltzer
0.987 3.71 Kilo Class de Patrick Robinson
0.987 3.85 The Rule of St. Benedict de Saint Benedict
0.987 4.23 The Holy Bible : Revised Standard Version de Ignatius Press
0.985 3.45 Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There de David Brooks
0.984 3.88 The Works of Josephus de Flavius Josephus
0.984 3.86 Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation de John E. Hopcroft
0.983 3.87 Tom Jones de Henry Fielding
0.982 3.71 The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich de Thomas J. Stanley
0.981 3.85 The Conquest of Happiness de Bertrand Russell
0.98 3.94 150 Ways to Play Solitaire de Alphonse Moyse
0.979 3.7 Meno de Plato
0.979 3.7 Hadrian the Seventh de Frederick Rolfe
0.975 3.59 Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy de Nancy Mitford
0.974 3.87 The Pickwick Papers de Charles Dickens
0.972 3.96 Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz
0.968 4.15 The Elements of Style de William Jr. Strunk
0.963 3.72 The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need de Andrew Tobias
0.962 3.75 The Lonely Crowd de David Riesman
0.962 3.8 Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy de William Barrett
0.962 3.57 Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know de E.D. Hirsch Jr.
0.96 4.1 Free to Choose: A Personal Statement de Milton Friedman
0.959 3.52 Googled: The End of the World As We Know It de Ken Auletta
0.958 3.75 Evensong de Gail Godwin
0.958 3.7 The Satyricon de Petronius Arbiter
0.957 3.66 A History of Greece de J. B. Bury
0.956 3.63 The Crusades de Zoé Oldenbourg
0.956 3.95 Surpreendido pela Alegria de C. S. Lewis
0.954 3.93 The Lifetime Reading Plan de Clifton Fadiman
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz de Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.953 4.04 Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" de Karl Keating
0.951 4.31 The C Programming Language de Brian W. Kernighan
0.95 4.35 Harvard dictionary of music de Willi Apel
0.949 3.81 The Greek Way de Edith Hamilton
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair de William Makepeace Thackeray
0.948 4.1 The Charioteer de Mary Renault
0.948 4.02 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám de Omar Khayyám
0.947 3.91 Time and Again de Jack Finney
0.945 4.04 A Abolição do Homem de C. S. Lewis
0.945 3.79 Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin de Benjamin Franklin
0.944 3.93 The Return of the Native de Thomas Hardy
0.944 3.78 O Livro de Ouro da Mitologia de Thomas Bulfinch
0.943 3.82 Eat the Rich de P. J. O'Rourke
0.942 4.06 Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 de Catherine Drinker Bowen
0.942 3.71 Saint Joan de George Bernard Shaw
0.94 3.85 The Art of Loving de Erich Fromm
0.94 4.01 O Processo de Franz Kafka
0.939 4.08 Civilisation: A Personal View de Kenneth Clark
0.938 4.15 Memoirs of Hadrian de Marguerite Yourcenar
0.937 3.88 Lutheran Book of Worship: Pew Edition de Augsburg Fortress Publishers
0.934 3.87 Green Dolphin Country de Elizabeth Goudge
0.933 4.2 The Ascent of Man de Jacob Bronowski
0.933 3.89 A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World de Marva J. Dawn
0.931 3.92 Life on the Mississippi de Mark Twain
0.93 3.83 Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture de Jaroslav Pelikan
0.928 3.36 Programming Python de Mark Lutz
0.926 3.83 The Turn of the Screw [Norton Critical Edition] de Henry James
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë
0.924 3.99 A Estrutura das Revoluções Científicas de Thomas S. Kuhn
0.924 3.58 A Concise History of the Middle East de Arthur Goldschmidt
0.924 3.93 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres de Henry Adams
0.923 3.58 The Immoralist de André Gide
0.922 3.94 Brave New World de Aldous Huxley
0.922 3.3 Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives de John Naisbitt
0.921 4.02 Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood de William Pollack
0.921 4.14 The Short Stories of Saki de Saki
0.921 3.81 A Plain Account of Christian Perfection de John Wesley
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch de George Eliot
0.92 4.1 From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life de Jacques Barzun
0.918 3.94 The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of World History de William L. Langer
0.917 3.89 The Works of Plato de Plato
0.917 3.34 Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith de William F. Buckley Jr.
0.917 3.95 Against method de Paul Feyerabend
0.916 4.02 The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo de Irving Stone
0.916 4.14 A história sem fim de Michael Ende
0.914 3.59 The Travels of Marco Polo de Marco Polo
0.914 3.95 Your God Is Too Small de J. B. Phillips
0.911 4.26 Cristianismo Puro e Simples de C. S. Lewis
0.911 3.94 O Problema da Dor de C. S. Lewis
0.91 3.77 A History of Mathematics de Carl B. Boyer
0.909 4.2 At Swim, Two Boys de Jamie O'Neill
0.909 4.32 The Open Society and Its Enemies de Karl Popper
0.908 3.39 Renaissance de J. R. Hale
0.907 4.17 Companion To Narnia de Paul F. Ford
0.907 4.17 Bleak House de Charles Dickens
0.906 3.99 The Man Without a Face de Isabelle Holland
0.905 3.52 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules de Michael Gorman
0.904 4.46 The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan de Arthur Seymour Sullivan
0.904 3.57 White House Years de Henry A. Kissinger
0.903 3.9 A Glossary of Literary Terms de M. H. Abrams
0.901 3.61 Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality de John Shelby Spong
0.9 4.2 Orthodoxy de G.K. Chesterton
0.9 3.9 The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 de A. T. Mahan
0.898 3.89 No Exit / The Flies de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.897 3.65 Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed de Elizabeth Longford
0.897 3.95 Reflexões Cristãs de C. S. Lewis
0.897 3.94 No Exit de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.895 3.98 Death Comes for the Archbishop de Willa Cather
0.893 3.54 Running Linux de Matt Welsh
0.893 4.03 Os Quatro Amores de C. S. Lewis
0.893 3.66 The Peter Principle de Laurence J. Peter
0.892 4.24 The Carnivorous Lamb de Agustin Gomez-Arcos
0.892 3.78 Arrowsmith de Sinclair Lewis
0.891 4.15 Demons de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.89 4.48 The Complete Story of Civilization de Will Durant
0.887 3.54 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? de Neil Howe
0.887 4.23 An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine de John Henry Newman
0.886 4.05 I am David de Anne Holm
0.885 4.08 The Mind of the Maker de Dorothy L. Sayers
0.88 4.25 As Crônicas de Nárnia de C. S. Lewis
0.88 4.07 The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering de Frederick P. Brooks
0.879 3.62 Learning the bash Shell de Cameron Newham
0.877 3.89 A Severed Wasp de Madeleine L'Engle
0.877 3.71 The Young Unicorns de Madeleine L'Engle
0.877 4.22 The Dean's Watch de Elizabeth Goudge
0.874 3.87 The Bull from the Sea de Mary Renault
0.87 4.01 Common Lisp: The Language de Guy Steele
0.869 3.81 The Essence of Christianity de Ludwig Feuerbach
0.869 4.06 Apologia pro Vita Sua de John Henry Newman
0.866 4.21 O Grande Divórcio de C. S. Lewis
0.866 3.57 The Choir de Joanna Trollope
0.866 3.9 Uma Breve Historia do Tempo de Stephen Hawking
0.865 4.09 The Persian Boy de Mary Renault
0.864 3.73 Barnaby Rudge de Charles Dickens
0.862 4.08 Understanding Physics de Isaac Asimov
0.861 3.72 Christ and Culture de H. Richard Niebuhr
0.855 4.17 The Thurber Carnival de James Thurber
0.854 4.31 Joy of Cooking [1951-1974] de Irma S. Rombauer
0.854 3.89 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains de Nicholas Carr
0.854 4.16 The Forsyte Saga de John Galsworthy
0.853 4.23 1984 de George Orwell
0.852 3.83 The New College Latin & English Dictionary de John Traupman
0.851 3.99 The Mask of Apollo de Mary Renault
0.85 3.93 Fire from Heaven de Mary Renault
0.848 3.9 Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments de Alexander Cruden
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid de Douglas Hofstadter
0.847 4.12 Deus no Banco dos Réus de C. S. Lewis
0.847 4.02 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers de Paul Kennedy
0.846 4.31 Gaudy Night de Dorothy L. Sayers
0.846 3.97 How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization de Thomas E. Woods
0.845 4.01 The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy de James Trefil
0.839 4.09 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools de Alfred V. Aho
0.838 3.86 The Irony of American History de Reinhold Niebuhr
0.838 4.09 The Last of the Wine de Mary Renault
0.837 3.96 Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka de Franz Kafka
0.836 3.94 The King Must Die de Mary Renault
0.831 3.83 The Praise Singer de Mary Renault
0.83 3.96 Samuel Johnson de John Wain
0.83 4.02 The Poetical Works of Lord Byron de Lord Byron
0.829 4.04 The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition de Eric S. Raymond
0.827 4.17 The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations de Oxford University Press
0.825 4.06 Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern de Douglas Hofstadter
0.825 4.16 Barchester Towers de Anthony Trollope
0.825 3.76 Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity de Bruce Bawer
0.824 4.15 A History of Western Philosophy de Bertrand Russell
0.823 4.03 Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs de Steve Maguire
0.822 4.18 The Stories of John Cheever de John Cheever
0.822 4.44 Introduction to the Devout Life de Francis de Sales
0.82 4.14 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century de Barbara W. Tuchman
0.817 4.3 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany de William L. Shirer
0.817 4.11 The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart de Peter J. Gomes
0.815 4.61 The Liturgy of the Hours: Complete Set de Catholic Book Publishing
0.815 3.91 The Nature of Alexander de Mary Renault
0.811 3.75 Eminent Victorians de Lytton Strachey
0.807 4.13 Software Tools de Brian W. Kernighan
0.805 4.21 Democracy in America de Alexis de Tocqueville
0.803 3.73 sed & awk de Dale Dougherty
0.796 3.76 The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening de Joseph Machlis
0.795 4.21 The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish Dictionary (El New World Diccionario español/inglés, inglés/español) (Spanish and English Edition) de Salvatore Ramondino
0.795 3.89 A Fairly Honourable Defeat de Iris Murdoch
0.793 4.31 Complete Poems de C.P. Cavafy
0.791 4.28 The Second World War {complete} de Winston S. Churchill
0.79 4.2 A History of Christian Thought de Paul Tillich
0.785 4.05 Veneno fatal de Dorothy L. Sayers
0.783 3.77 C.S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands de Brian Sibley
0.783 4.18 C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) de Samuel P. Harbison
0.782 4.03 Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories de C. S. Lewis
0.779 4.37 Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation de Carl Sagan
0.779 4.15 The Shape of the Liturgy de Gregory Dix
0.779 4.07 The Annotated Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea de Jules Verne
0.779 4.33 Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius de Ray Monk
0.778 4.09 The Great Heresies de Hilaire Belloc
0.777 4.14 Memórias de Sherlock Holmes de Arthur Conan Doyle
0.774 4.45 Pilgrim's Inn de Elizabeth Goudge
0.774 4.13 Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel de Jacob Bronowski
0.769 4.4 Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society de Peter McWilliams
0.768 3.65 Imperial Rome de Moses Hadas
0.766 3.15 Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection de Harold Bloom
0.764 3.87 Epitaph for a Spy de Eric Ambler
0.761 3.7 The Columbia History of the World de John A. Garraty
0.761 3.83 Chess Praxis: The Praxis Of My System de Aron Nimzovich
0.757 3.7 How to Become a Virgin de Quentin Crisp
0.756 4.35 The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying de William Faulkner
0.752 4.05 The Oxford Book of American Verse de F. O. Matthiessen
0.749 4.37 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe de Edgar Allan Poe
0.745 3.85 Classical Greece de Maurice Bowra
0.744 4.47 The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms de Donald E. Knuth
0.744 4.32 The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll de Lewis Carroll
0.742 3.52 Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture de Claude Lévi-Strauss
0.734 4.03 The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 de Barbara W. Tuchman
0.729 4.46 Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation de Meister Eckhart
0.728 3.99 A History of Western Music de Donald Jay Grout
0.725 4.44 The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0.723 3.92 Introduction to Logic de Irving M. Copi
0.718 4.17 The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson de Thomas Jefferson
0.715 4.33 Peter the Great: His Life and World de Robert K. Massie
0.713 4.13 Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories de Dorothy L. Sayers
0.708 4.36 Walking on Water : Reflections on faith and art de Madeleine L'Engle
0.693 3.7 lex & yacc de Doug Brown
0.688 4.02 Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture de Jeremy Rifkin
0.687 4.2 Playing the Piano for Pleasure de Charles Cooke
0.685 4.3 Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0.682 3.56 The Lark de Jean Anouilh
0.672 3.96 Algorithms de Robert Sedgewick
0.657 3.37 The Wisdom of Confucius de Confucius
0.64 4.41 Joseph in Egypt de Thomas Mann
0.572 4.14 The Echo of Greece de Edith Hamilton
0.541 4.69 Webster's Third New International Dictionary de Philip Babcock Gove
0.531 3.42 Engineering In the Ancient World de J. G. Landels
0.48 4.65 The Encyclopedia of philosophy de Paul Edwards