Controversial Books for Simon_Maxwell

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
1.206 4.01 Ulysses de James Joyce
1.198 3.47 Crash de J. G. Ballard
1.193 3.4 Social Research Methods de Alan Bryman
1.164 3.43 Families and How to Survive Them de Robin Skynner
1.157 3.53 Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son de Roger Mortimer
1.146 3.38 A Journey: My Political Life de Tony Blair
1.142 3.73 Milkman de Anna Burns
1.136 3.15 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex de John Gray
1.128 3.78 O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio de J. D. Salinger
1.101 3.49 Delia Smith's Winter Collection de Delia Smith
1.086 3.49 Iron John: A Book About Men de Robert Bly
1.082 3.8 Zen e a Arte da manutenção de motocicletas de Robert M. Pirsig
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë
1.076 3.91 About Love de Anton Chekhov
1.057 3.84 A Tiger for Malgudi de R. K. Narayan
1.052 3.46 Nothing Natural de Jenny Diski
1.05 3.82 Tess of the D'Urbervilles de Thomas Hardy
1.049 3.53 Women in Love de D. H. Lawrence
1.039 3.12 Man and Wife de Tony Parsons
1.037 3.57 Sons and Lovers de D. H. Lawrence
1.035 3.6 A Separate Reality de Carlos Castaneda
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises de Ernest Hemingway
1.033 3.87 Jude the Obscure de Thomas Hardy
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales de Geoffrey Chaucer
1.031 4.08 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World de Iain McGilchrist
1.027 3.95 The Mezzanine de Nicholson Baker
1.024 3.97 The Tin Drum de Günter Grass
1.021 3.65 The Sportswriter de Richard Ford
1.019 4.25 English Pastoral: An Inheritance de James Rebanks
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations de Charles Dickens
1.006 3.9 O Paciente Inglês de Michael Ondaatje
1.004 3.39 Surfacing de Margaret Atwood
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath de John Steinbeck
1.001 3.94 The White Goddess de Robert Graves
0.999 3.96 Written on the Body de Jeanette Winterson
0.998 3.81 Betty Blue de Philippe Djian
0.997 3.98 Wolf Hall de Hilary Mantel
0.997 4.1 O Profeta de Kahlil Gibran
0.994 4.07 Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov
0.992 4.04 Midnight's Children de Salman Rushdie
0.99 3.84 Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics de Tim Marshall
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go de Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being de Milan Kundera
0.985 3.48 O Amante de Lady Chatterley de D. H. Lawrence
0.982 3.53 Hard Times de Charles Dickens
0.981 3.95 O Perfume - A História de um Assassino de Patrick Süskind
0.979 3.66 O Arco-Íris de D. H. Lawrence
0.972 3.73 Viver para contar de Gabriel García Márquez
0.972 3.85 Independence Day de Richard Ford
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men de John Steinbeck
0.969 3.97 Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 de W. H. Auden
0.968 3.95 A Little Book on the Human Shadow de Robert Bly
0.966 3.84 Ten Days that Shook the World de John Reed
0.966 3.28 Man and Boy de Tony Parsons
0.964 3.87 Iron in the Soul de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.962 3.67 L'ignorance de Milan Kundera
0.961 4.05 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler de Italo Calvino
0.956 4.03 Ilíada de Homer
0.949 3.72 The Stories of Eva Luna de Isabel Allende
0.949 3.9 Delia's Complete Cookery Course (Vol 1-3) de Delia Smith
0.946 3.6 The Cement Garden de Ian McEwan
0.946 4.1 Tao: The Watercourse Way de Alan Watts
0.945 3.63 Canada de Richard Ford
0.942 3.6 Freckle Juice de Judy Blume
0.942 4.02 The Odyssey de Homer
0.941 4.13 Selected Poems de W. H. Auden
0.94 4.01 O Processo de Franz Kafka
0.938 3.52 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness de Richard H. Thaler
0.937 3.81 The Age of Reason de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.936 4.14 Ana Karênina de Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 O Estrangeiro de Albert Camus
0.934 3.5 Travels in Hyperreality de Umberto Eco
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction de Michel Foucault
0.931 3.71 As Viangens de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens
0.927 3.68 India: A Million Mutinies Now de V. S. Naipaul
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë
0.923 4.01 Collected Stories de Gabriel García Márquez
0.92 3.59 The Child in Time de Ian McEwan
0.92 4.2 Middlemarch de George Eliot
0.918 3.74 Rain de Kirsty Gunn
0.917 3.93 The Sea, the Sea de Iris Murdoch
0.917 3.85 Amongst Women de John McGahern
0.917 3.9 The Mayor of Casterbridge de Thomas Hardy
0.916 3.92 A Room with a View de E. M. Forster
0.916 4.14 Invisible Cities de Italo Calvino
0.915 3.98 The Greek Myths: Complete Edition de Robert Graves
0.914 4 A Revolução dos Bichos de George Orwell
0.912 3.44 Selected Short Stories de D. H. Lawrence
0.912 4.08 Born to Run de Michael Morpurgo
0.91 3.62 First Love, Last Rites: Stories de Ian McEwan
0.91 4.25 Crime e Castigo de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.909 3.88 As We Are Now de May Sarton
0.909 4.02 Real Fast Food de Nigel Slater
0.908 3.64 Room Temperature de Nicholson Baker
0.908 4.26 War and Peace de Leo Tolstoy
0.903 3.45 Confessions of an English Opium Eater de Thomas De Quincey
0.901 3.44 The Comfort of Strangers de Ian McEwan
0.9 3.37 The English: A Portrait of a People de Jeremy Paxman
0.898 3.78 Notes from a Small Island de Bill Bryson
0.898 3.81 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream de Barack Obama
0.894 3.55 The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited de V. S. Naipaul
0.893 4.08 The House of the Spirits de Isabel Allende
0.892 3.64 My Place de Sally Morgan
0.887 4.12 O Idiota de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.887 4.06 The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger de Richard Wilkinson
0.886 3.82 Brazzaville Beach de William Boyd
0.884 3.5 Love, Again de Doris Lessing
0.88 3.88 A Year in Provence de Peter Mayle
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner de Khaled Hosseini
0.878 3.9 Forbidden Colors de Yukio Mishima
0.877 3.72 Thirst for Love de Yukio Mishima
0.876 3.94 The Songlines de Bruce Chatwin
0.875 4.1 Sense and Sensibility de Jane Austen
0.875 3.98 Europe: A History de Norman Davies
0.873 3.91 The Reprieve de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.872 3.25 A Piece of My Heart de Richard Ford
0.871 3.86 The Lay of the Land de Richard Ford
0.868 4.12 Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison de Michel Foucault
0.863 3.9 A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000 B.C. - 1603 A.D de Simon Schama
0.861 3.67 Wild at Heart de Barry Gifford
0.858 3.86 Pais e Filhos de Ivan Turgenev
0.856 3.57 Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories de Margaret Atwood
0.851 3.86 The Magic Toyshop de Angela Carter
0.849 3.65 A Multitude of Sins de Richard Ford
0.849 3.81 Eva Luna de Isabel Allende
0.848 4.06 Um Urso Chamado Paddington de Michael Bond
0.847 3.7 The Innocent de Ian McEwan
0.844 4 A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 de Simon Schama
0.842 4.17 Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales de Jacob Grimm
0.841 3.78 Sure of You de Armistead Maupin
0.841 3.78 Wilderness Tips de Margaret Atwood
0.834 3.92 Sonhos do meu Pai: A história da minha família de Barack Obama
0.834 4.18 The English and Their History de Robert Tombs
0.832 3.74 About a Boy de Nick Hornby
0.827 4.16 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution de Peter Kropotkin
0.822 3.76 Laughable Loves de Milan Kundera
0.816 4.16 The Periodic Table de Primo Levi
0.816 3.77 Between Them: Remembering My Parents de Richard Ford
0.816 4.33 The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East de Robert Fisk
0.813 4.27 Collected Poems de Philip Larkin
0.812 3.92 The Grass Is Singing de Doris Lessing
0.81 4.04 Down and Out in Paris and London de George Orwell
0.801 4.24 I, Claudius de Robert Graves
0.8 3.94 At Home : a short history of private life de Bill Bryson
0.795 4.02 Rock Springs: Stories de Richard Ford
0.793 4.05 Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories de Anton Tschechow
0.789 4.04 The Wrench de Primo Levi
0.785 4.34 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 de Tony Judt
0.784 3.95 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Retold de Geraldine McCaughrean
0.783 3.85 Death in Midsummer and Other Stories de Yukio Mishima
0.778 3.6 Dancing Girls and Other Stories de Margaret Atwood
0.776 3.78 Men Without Women de Haruki Murakami
0.761 4.05 A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire de Simon Schama
0.752 4 From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers de Marina Warner
0.75 3.95 A History of Modern Britain de Andrew Marr
0.746 3.53 Women with Men de Richard Ford
0.743 3.95 To Sir, With Love de E. R. Braithwaite
0.738 4.15 More About Paddington de Michael Bond
0.722 4.34 The Drowned and the Saved de Primo Levi
0.722 3.92 The Nation's Favourite Poems de Griff Rhys Jones
0.707 4.05 Anarchy in Action de Colin Ward
0.688 4.11 Swimming to Cambodia de Spalding Rockwell Gray
0.671 4.32 Moments of Reprieve de Primo Levi
0.666 4.18 The Clockwork Sparrow de Katherine Woodfine
0.635 3.89 The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Myths de Mariana Mazzucato
0.609 3.99 Estates: an intimate history de Lynsey Hanley