Controversial Books for boringalias

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
1.287 2.84 Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past de Erich von Däniken
1.111 3.88 Capitalism and Freedom de Milton Friedman
1.088 3.45 Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War de Edwin C. Bearss
1.079 3.6 The Closing of the American Mind de Allan Bloom
1.07 4.21 Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration de James Hamilton
1.067 3.64 Civilization and Its Discontents de Sigmund Freud
1.063 3.48 Beyond Freedom & Dignity de B. F. Skinner
1.06 3.57 The Victorian Fairytale Book de Michael Patrick Hearn
1.054 3.94 Confessions de Saint Augustine
1.053 3.79 The Gunslinger de Stephen King
1.052 3.9 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts de Samuel Beckett
1.046 3.86 Stranger in a Strange Land de Robert A. Heinlein
1.038 3.69 The Vintage Mencken de H. L. Mencken
1.03 3.65 The Moviegoer de Walker Percy
1.012 3.81 Beowulf de Beowulf Poet
1.005 3.85 Thus Spoke Zarathustra de Friedrich Nietzsche
1.001 3.87 The Republic de Plato
0.999 3.87 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy de Jacob Burckhardt
0.997 3.91 The Varieties of Religious Experience de William James
0.996 3.69 The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales de Bruno Bettelheim
0.989 4.06 The Road de Cormac McCarthy
0.988 3.93 The Seven Storey Mountain de Thomas Merton
0.987 4 Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters de Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
0.982 3.97 The Upanishads de Anonymous
0.981 3.86 The Ship of Fools de Sebastian Brant
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha de Hermann Hesse
0.976 3.98 Seven Gothic Tales de Isak Dinesen
0.975 3.73 In Ghostly Japan de Lafcadio Hearn
0.975 3.61 Origins de Richard E. Leakey
0.968 3.9 The Consolation of Philosophy de Boethius
0.965 4.05 HR Giger ARh+ de H. R. Giger
0.964 3.84 Parzival de Wolfram von Eschenbach
0.962 3.88 The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy de Ronald Hutton
0.961 3.77 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight de Gawain Poet
0.961 3.9 The Aeneid de Virgil
0.956 4.03 Ilíada de Homer
0.954 3.88 The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights de Richard Burton
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz de Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.949 3.96 The Bhagavad Gita de Vyasa
0.948 3.66 The Song of Roland de Turoldus
0.948 4.06 King Lear de William Shakespeare
0.947 3.81 The American Heritage History of the Civil War de Bruce Catton
0.947 4.18 The New Biographical Dictionary of Film de David Thomson
0.946 3.79 The Monk de Matthew Lewis
0.945 3.56 A Princess of Mars de Edgar Rice Burroughs
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf de Hermann Hesse
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey de Homer
0.935 4.17 Economics in One Lesson de Henry Hazlitt
0.933 3.85 The Saga of the Volsungs de Anonymous
0.933 4.15 Basic Writings of Nietzsche de Friedrich Nietzsche
0.931 3.75 The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell de Aldous Huxley
0.929 4.1 A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing de H. L. Mencken
0.929 4.08 Long Day's Journey into Night de Eugene O'Neill
0.928 4.08 The Hero with a Thousand Faces de Joseph Campbell
0.928 4.2 The Road to Serfdom de F. A. Hayek
0.922 3.94 Brave New World de Aldous Huxley
0.921 4.1 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress de Robert A. Heinlein
0.92 4.1 From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life de Jacques Barzun
0.917 3.86 The Mabinogion de Mabinogion Author
0.916 3.94 How the Other Half Lives de Jacob A. Riis
0.915 3.89 Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories de Thomas Mann
0.914 4 A Revolução dos Bichos de George Orwell
0.913 4.06 Narcissus and Goldmund de Hermann Hesse
0.912 3.77 The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal de Desmond Morris
0.911 3.97 The Terror de Dan Simmons
0.911 4.13 Collected Stories of William Faulkner de William Faulkner
0.91 4.25 Crime e Castigo de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.908 3.84 Nós de Yevgeny Zamyatin
0.906 3.99 Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux de John G. Neihardt
0.906 3.89 Goethe's Faust: Part One and Sections from Part Two de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.905 4.18 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Mueller} de Edward Gibbon
0.904 3.98 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories de Leo Tolstoy
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury
0.901 4.01 On Ugliness de Umberto Eco
0.9 3.88 The Decameron : A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) de Giovanni Boccaccio
0.9 3.79 Skeleton Crew de Stephen King
0.899 4.25 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections de Walter Benjamin
0.895 3.76 The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian de Robin Lane Fox
0.895 3.89 Nightmare Town: Stories de Dashiell Hammett
0.892 3.96 A Moveable Feast de Ernest Hemingway
0.891 4 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories de H. P. Lovecraft
0.887 4.12 The Dhammapada de Balangoda Ananda Maitreya
0.884 3.91 The Hearing Trumpet de Leonora Carrington
0.883 3.82 The World Without Us de Alan Weisman
0.883 3.82 Night Shift de Stephen King
0.88 3.82 As Consolações da Filosofia de Alain de Botton
0.878 4 The Decline of the West : An Abridged Edition de Oswald Spengler
0.876 3.96 Rendezvous With Rama de Arthur C. Clarke
0.875 4.15 The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements de Eric Hoffer
0.874 3.89 The Maltese Falcon de Dashiell Hammett
0.873 3.79 Nibelungenlied de Anonymous
0.873 4.26 Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories [Oxford World Classics] de M. R. James
0.872 4.12 On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy de Carl R. Rogers
0.872 4.17 The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories de H. P. Lovecraft
0.871 3.74 The Book of Atheist Spirituality de André Comte-Sponville
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle de Haruki Murakami
0.869 4.29 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition de Stephen King
0.867 4.13 Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts de Clive James
0.866 3.84 The Thin Man de Dashiell Hammett
0.866 3.77 Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales de Stephen King
0.865 3.94 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales de Oliver Sacks
0.865 3.7 Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work de Matthew B. Crawford
0.863 3.98 This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) de Drew Gilpin Faust
0.862 3.74 Nocturnes de John Connolly
0.86 3.88 The Golden Bough de James George Frazer
0.86 3.33 A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People de Steven Ozment
0.858 3.8 The Historical Figure of Jesus de E. P. Sanders
0.857 3.98 The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps de Otto Penzler
0.855 3.85 Pagans and Christians de Robin Lane Fox
0.853 4.23 1984 de George Orwell
0.852 4.37 Os Irmãos Karamazóv de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.849 4 2001: Uma Odisseia no Espaço de Arthur C. Clarke
0.847 3.88 The Lais of Marie de France de de France Marie
0.846 3.83 Arthurian Romances de Chrétien de Troyes
0.846 3.98 The Day of the Triffids de John Wyndham
0.846 4.05 The Táin de Táin author
0.845 4.32 Watchmen - Book 1 of 12 de Alan Moore
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood de Truman Capote
0.842 4.14 Nine Stories de J. D. Salinger
0.842 4.17 Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales de Jacob Grimm
0.84 4.13 Letters from the Earth de Mark Twain
0.839 4.23 Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) de Roald Dahl
0.838 4.04 Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood de Algernon Blackwood
0.834 3.52 The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories de Robert W. Chambers
0.834 3.69 Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real de Rolf G Renner
0.832 3.98 No Exit / Dirty Hands / The Flies / The Respectful Prostitute de Jean-Paul Sartre
0.828 3.81 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary de Simon Winchester
0.821 3.48 McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories de Michael Chabon
0.82 4.01 Different Seasons de Stephen King
0.819 3.71 Just After Sunset de Stephen King
0.818 4.39 The Riverside Chaucer de Geoffrey Chaucer
0.817 3.55 Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto / Vathek / Frankenstein de Peter Fairclough
0.817 4.11 As Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes de Arthur Conan Doyle
0.816 3.85 Rhinoceros / The Leader / The Future Is in Eggs de Eugène Ionesco
0.813 4.27 Collected Poems de Philip Larkin
0.804 3.98 Jesus Interrupted de Bart D. Ehrman
0.802 4.3 The Complete Stories de Franz Kafka
0.8 3.95 Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? de Robert M. Price
0.799 4.33 The Disasters of War de Francisco Goya
0.797 4.3 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century de Alex Ross
0.797 4.03 Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu de J. Sheridan LeFanu
0.794 4.14 What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada de Walpola Rahula
0.789 3.88 The Perfect Wagnerite de George Bernard Shaw
0.786 4.08 Russian Fairy Tales de Alexander Afanasyev
0.785 4.34 Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring" de Arthur Rackham
0.78 4.34 Collected Poems de W. B. Yeats
0.779 4.37 Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation de Carl Sagan
0.77 4.08 The Continental Op: The Complete Case Files de Dashiell Hammett
0.769 4.1 Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia de Suzanne Massie
0.769 4.15 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain de Betty Edwards
0.767 4.32 The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol de Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.767 4.43 Labyrinths de Jorge Luis Borges
0.755 4.16 Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions de Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
0.749 4.37 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe de Edgar Allan Poe
0.749 3.93 Mohammed and Charlemagne de Henri Pirenne
0.744 3.66 The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken de Terry Teachout
0.743 4.16 Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age de Modris Eksteins
0.739 4.25 The Best Tales of Hoffmann de E. T. A. Hoffmann
0.728 4.16 Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia de Orlando Figes
0.727 3.87 Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art) de Ulrich Bischoff
0.705 4.03 Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 de Christopher Clark
0.697 4.59 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare de William Shakespeare
0.695 4.58 Icon: A Retrospective by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art de Frank Frazetta
0.693 4.45 John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose de John Milton
0.625 4.1 The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy de Bryan Magee
0.625 4.15 The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England de Barbara A. Hanawalt
0.612 4.31 Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics de Frederic Spotts
0.501 4.57 The Commissar Vanishes. The Falsification of Photographs and Art in the Soviet Union de David King