Controversial Books for horatiogates

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
1.165 3.53 O Código Da Vinci de Dan Brown
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick de Herman Melville
1.145 4.13 Gravity and Grace de Simone Weil
1.143 3.63 Tropic of Cancer de Henry Miller
1.139 3.6 Teoria Geral do Emprego, do Juro e da Moeda de John Maynard Keynes
1.128 3.78 O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio de J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.06 Arco-íris da gravidade de Thomas Pynchon
1.122 3.57 Anthem de Ayn Rand
1.114 3.63 Pé na Estrada de Jack Kerouac
1.1 3.38 The Scarlet Letter de Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.1 4.15 Conversation in the Cathedral de Mario Vargas Llosa
1.097 3.68 The Five People You Meet in Heaven de Mitch Albom
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man de James Joyce
1.094 3.62 I Am a Strange Loop de Douglas Hofstadter
1.091 3.57 A Separate Peace de John Knowles
1.087 3.58 Doctor Copernicus de John Banville
1.084 4.22 Graça Infinita de David Foster Wallace
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson de Mitch Albom
1.072 3.89 At Swim-Two-Birds de Flann O'Brien
1.072 3.8 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization de Nicholson Baker
1.068 3.98 The Savage Detectives de Roberto Bolaño
1.067 3.24 Fury de Salman Rushdie
1.064 3.71 O Leilão do Lote 49 de Thomas Pynchon
1.064 3.77 O Velho e O Mar de Ernest Hemingway
1.052 3.9 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts de Samuel Beckett
1.05 3.48 The Sea de John Banville
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert
1.04 3.62 Athena de John Banville
1.04 3.78 The Boy Detective Fails de Joe Meno
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things de Arundhati Roy
1.032 3.98 Europe Central de William T. Vollmann
1.03 3.85 O grande Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.02 House of Holes de Nicholson Baker
1.027 3.95 The Mezzanine de Nicholson Baker
1.026 3.56 Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies de Aleksandar Hemon
1.026 3.6 Hairstyles of the Damned de Joe Meno
1.023 3.8 The Metamorphosis [Bantam Classics] de Franz Kafka
1.02 4.31 The Recognitions de William Gaddis
1.016 4.04 The Denial of Death de Ernest Becker
1.014 3.78 White Noise de Don DeLillo
1.013 4.09 House of Leaves de Mark Z. Danielewski
1.011 3.04 The Body Artist de Don DeLillo
1.01 4.18 Cem Anos de Solidão de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 3.64 The House on Mango Street de Sandra Cisneros
1.008 4.12 2666 de Roberto Bolaño
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 de Joseph Heller
1.005 3.86 Thus Spoke Zarathustra de Friedrich Nietzsche
1.002 3.36 Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality de Loretta Napoleoni
1.001 3.81 1Q84 de Haruki Murakami
0.999 3.23 Falling Man de Don DeLillo
0.998 3.61 How to Read Lacan de Slavoj Žižek
0.994 4.07 Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov
0.989 4.06 The Road de Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.63 The Possibility of an Island de Michel Houellebecq
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go de Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being de Milan Kundera
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey de J. D. Salinger
0.982 3.77 The Art of the Novel de Milan Kundera
0.981 3.85 The Conquest of Happiness de Bertrand Russell
0.981 4.23 No Caminho de Swann de Marcel Proust
0.978 4.06 Petersburg de Andrei Bely
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha de Hermann Hesse
0.976 3.99 Their Eyes Were Watching God de Zora Neale Hurston
0.974 3.97 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays de Albert Camus
0.972 3.75 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions de Edwin A. Abbott
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men de John Steinbeck
0.962 4.03 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles de Mike Davis
0.962 3.98 Waiting for God de Simone Weil
0.961 3.74 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey de Jill Bolte Taylor
0.961 4.06 The Secret Life of Salvador Dali de Salvador Dalí
0.96 3.67 O Homem Do Castelo Alto de Philip K. Dick
0.96 3.49 Envy de Yuri Olesha
0.956 3.61 The Slynx de Tatyana Tolstaya
0.954 3.55 Slowness de Milan Kundera
0.954 3.8 Candide de Voltaire
0.951 4.02 The Outsiders de S. E. Hinton
0.95 3.84 Disgrace de J. M. Coetzee
0.949 4.08 O Diário De Anne Frank de Anne Frank
0.949 3.62 The Broom of the System de David Foster Wallace
0.949 3.74 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America de Barbara Ehrenreich
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair de William Makepeace Thackeray
0.948 3.79 O Chamado da Floresta de Jack London
0.947 3.95 Plexus de Henry Miller
0.947 4.1 Cloud Atlas de David Mitchell
0.947 3.81 Red Cavalry de Isaac Babel
0.944 4.15 Austerlitz de W. G. Sebald
0.943 3.9 Dublinenses de James Joyce
0.943 3.67 The Book of Evidence de John Banville
0.942 4.01 Steppenwolf de Hermann Hesse
0.94 3.53 Bonjour Tristesse de Françoise Sagan
0.94 4.01 O Processo de Franz Kafka
0.938 3.99 LARANJA MECÂNICA de Anthony Burgess
0.936 4.41 Swann's Way & Within A Budding Grove de Marcel Proust
0.936 4.14 Ana Karênina de Leo Tolstoy
0.936 3.95 O Estrangeiro de Albert Camus
0.934 3.94 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction de Michel Foucault
0.931 4.11 In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture de George Steiner
0.93 3.82 The 42nd Parallel de John Dos Passos
0.93 3.59 Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper de Nicholson Baker
0.929 3.54 Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World de Bernard-Henri Lévy
0.929 4.11 All the King's Men de Robert Penn Warren
0.927 3.66 Girl With Curious Hair de David Foster Wallace
0.927 4.11 The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (Routledge Classics) de Simone Weil
0.926 3.47 How the Hula Girl Sings de Joe Meno
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar de Sylvia Plath
0.926 3.9 Invitation to a Beheading de Vladimir Nabokov
0.926 4.11 The Glass Bead Game de Hermann Hesse
0.922 3.94 Brave New World de Aldous Huxley
0.921 4.05 Memórias do Subsolo de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire de Vladimir Nabokov
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States de Howard Zinn
0.919 4.16 Hamlet de William Shakespeare
0.919 4.26 Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] de Miguel de Cervantes
0.919 4.22 The Master and Margarita de Mikhail Bulgakov
0.918 3.89 Franz Kafka's The Castle (Acting Edition) de Franz Kafka
0.918 4.11 Matadouro 5 de Kurt Vonnegut
0.918 4.11 Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 6 de Søren Kierkegaard
0.918 3.01 The Diagnosis de Alan Lightman
0.916 3.92 A Room with a View de E. M. Forster
0.915 3.88 Into the Wild de Jon Krakauer
0.914 4 A Revolução dos Bichos de George Orwell
0.914 4.09 Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar de Richard Brautigan
0.913 4.11 All Quiet on the Western Front de Erich Maria Remarque
0.911 3.98 Notes from Underground / The Double de Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.91 4.25 Crime e Castigo de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass de Lewis Carroll
0.908 3.84 Nós de Yevgeny Zamyatin
0.908 4.26 War and Peace de Leo Tolstoy
0.906 4.04 Me Talk Pretty One Day de David Sedaris
0.905 4.16 A Guerra do Fim do Mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa
0.905 3.93 Jurassic Park de Michael Crichton
0.904 4.02 Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury
0.902 4.26 The Power of One de Bryce Courtenay
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried de Tim O'Brien
0.901 4.01 Life Is a Dream de Pedro Calderón de la Barca
0.901 3.81 Despair de Vladimir Nabokov
0.897 4 Ubik de Philip K. Dick
0.897 3.94 Norwegian Wood de Haruki Murakami
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time de Mark Haddon
0.896 3.95 The Plague de Albert Camus
0.895 4.16 The Giver de Lois Lowry
0.894 3.97 A Morte de Ivan Ilitch de Leo Tolstoy
0.893 3.68 The Great Perhaps de Joe Meno
0.893 3.95 The dead souls de Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.891 4.15 Demons de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.89 3.89 The sorrow of war de Bao Ninh
0.89 3.87 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting de Milan Kundera
0.887 4.12 O Idiota de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.887 4.15 Doctor Faustus de Thomas Mann
0.887 3.54 Ghosts de John Banville
0.887 3.54 The Lazarus Project de Aleksandar Hemon
0.885 4.06 Eugene Onegin de Alexander Pushkin
0.883 3.68 U and I: A True Story de Nicholson Baker
0.882 4.09 Nexus de Henry Miller
0.882 4 Sexus de Henry Miller
0.879 4.05 Kafka on the Shore de Haruki Murakami
0.878 4.2 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay de Michael Chabon
0.878 4.34 Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays de Michel de Montaigne
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics de Steven D. Levitt
0.877 3.66 In Defense of Lost Causes de Slavoj Žižek
0.874 3.88 Pnin de Vladimir Nabokov
0.871 3.94 Planet of Slums de Mike Davis
0.871 3.64 The Russia House de John le Carré
0.87 3.81 The White Guard de Mikhail Bulgakov
0.869 3.79 The White Tiger de Aravind Adiga
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle de Haruki Murakami
0.868 3.76 Dirty Snow de Georges Simenon
0.867 4.2 O Nome da Rosa de Umberto Eco
0.867 4.27 O Hobbit de J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 3.3 Americana de Don DeLillo
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta de J. K. Rowling
0.865 3.88 Ill Seen Ill Said de Samuel Beckett
0.863 4.06 Ham on Rye de Charles Bukowski
0.863 3.83 Number9Dream de David Mitchell
0.862 3.59 The Yacoubian Building de Alaa al-Aswani
0.862 4.09 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet de David Mitchell
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal de J. K. Rowling
0.859 4.12 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World de Haruki Murakami
0.858 3.75 Gertrude de Hermann Hesse
0.858 3.86 Pais e Filhos de Ivan Turgenev
0.858 4.03 Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream de Buzz Bissinger
0.857 4.06 Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy de Joseph A. Schumpeter
0.857 3.99 Fat Kid Rules the World de K. L. Going
0.856 3.64 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce de Slavoj Žižek
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game de Orson Scott Card
0.855 4.04 The Devil's Highway: A True Story de Luis Alberto Urrea
0.854 3.95 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? de Philip K. Dick
0.853 4.23 1984 de George Orwell
0.852 4.37 Os Irmãos Karamazóv de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.852 3.9 A Wild Sheep Chase de Haruki Murakami
0.848 3.8 O Jogador de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.848 4.06 The True Story of Ah Q de Lu Xun
0.848 4.04 The Overcoat de Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
0.848 4.34 Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid de Douglas Hofstadter
0.848 4 A Brief History of Neoliberalism de David Harvey
0.847 3.82 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories de Truman Capote
0.847 3.73 Sputnik Sweetheart de Haruki Murakami
0.846 4.37 O Sol é para Todos de Harper Lee
0.845 4.09 Cancer Ward de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.845 4.31 Watchmen - Book 1 of 12 de Alan Moore
0.845 3.97 The Big Sleep de Raymond Chandler
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood de Truman Capote
0.842 4.03 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich de Alexander Solzhenitsyn
0.842 3.64 Gente Pobre de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.841 3.59 Amulet de Roberto Bolaño
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest de Ken Kesey
0.84 4.26 The Aleph and Other Stories de Jorge Luis Borges
0.839 3.83 The Elephant Vanishes: Stories de Haruki Murakami
0.839 4.01 In Praise of Idleness de Bertrand Russell
0.837 4.08 Before Night Falls de Reinaldo Arenas
0.837 3.82 Exile and the Kingdom de Albert Camus
0.836 4.36 Life and Fate de Vasily Grossman
0.835 4.32 Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings de Shel Silverstein
0.834 3.86 The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism de David Harvey
0.833 4.35 Stories de Anton Chekhov
0.833 3.42 Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul de Francis Crick
0.83 4.29 Night de Elie Wiesel
0.829 3.9 Heart of a Dog de Mikhail Bulgakov
0.827 4.27 The Autobiography of Malcolm X de Malcolm X
0.826 3.97 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare de James S. Shapiro
0.823 4.18 Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited de Vladimir Nabokov
0.822 4.17 Cathedral: Stories de Raymond Carver
0.822 4.17 Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout de Lauren Redniss
0.821 3.81 The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 de Hugh Thomas
0.82 4.2 The Remains of the Day de Kazuo Ishiguro
0.819 3.95 Dance Dance Dance de Haruki Murakami
0.817 4.13 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays de David Foster Wallace
0.817 4.5 The Man Without Qualities: A Sort of Introduction; Pseudo Reality Prevails; Into the Millennium; From the Posthumous Papers {Vols. 1-2} de Robert Musil
0.815 4.25 Matilda de Roald Dahl
0.815 4.14 The Codebreakers de David Kahn
0.815 3.76 Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution de Jack N. Rakove
0.814 3.38 Monsieur Pain de Roberto Bolaño
0.812 3.79 By Night in Chile de Roberto Bolaño
0.808 4.08 Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? de James Shapiro
0.804 4.16 The Long Goodbye de Raymond Chandler
0.802 4.3 The Complete Stories de Franz Kafka
0.801 4.06 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created de Charles C. Mann
0.801 3.93 Recordações da Casa dos Mortos de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.799 4.19 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster de Jon Krakauer
0.799 4.08 Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin; The Queen of Spades; The Captain's Daughter; Peter the Great's Blackamoor de Alexander Pushkin
0.799 4.04 Ghostwritten de David Mitchell
0.796 4.18 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood de Marjane Satrapi
0.793 3.98 Black Swan Green de David Mitchell
0.792 4.16 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus de Charles C. Mann
0.786 4.36 Bridge of Birds de Barry Hughart
0.779 4.18 The Good War: An Oral History of World War II de Studs Terkel
0.779 3.9 The Defense de Vladimir Nabokov
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban de J. K. Rowling
0.767 4.32 The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol de Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
0.767 4.43 Labyrinths de Jorge Luis Borges
0.754 4.15 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid de Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
0.753 3.96 The Twilight of American Culture de Morris Berman
0.742 3.82 An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future de Robert D. Kaplan
0.731 3.71 In the Country of Men de Hisham Matar
0.727 4.24 The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil de Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
0.722 3.93 Number: The Language of Science de Tobias Dantzig
0.718 3.88 The Question of Bruno: Stories de Aleksandar Hemon
0.713 3.61 Tender as Hellfire de Joe Meno
0.709 4.14 How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer de Sarah Bakewell
0.709 4.18 Aantekeningen van een jonge arts de Mikhail Bulgakov
0.673 4.41 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness de Michelle Alexander
0.656 4.07 Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice de Rudolf Rocker
0.647 4.63 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs de Harold Abelson
0.641 4.07 The Eternal Husband and Other Stories de Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.636 4.57 The Path to Power de Robert A. Caro