Controversial Books for prueda

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.227 3.05 MUH! by David Safier
1.163 3.36 Le Libraire by Régis de Sá Moreira
1.159 2.98 Le pecore e il pastore by Andrea Camilleri
1.122 3.27 Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives by Anthony Giddens
1.110 3.37 Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! by Stéphane Hessel
1.098 3.42 A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
1.073 3.67 El Rey de La Habana by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
1.066 3.68 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.051 3.71 On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
1.049 3.24 Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle by Tom Sharpe
1.044 3.75 A Simple Story by Leonardo Sciascia
1.042 3.64 Through a Glass, Darkly by Jostein Gaarder
1.041 3.73 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 - 1750 by Marcus Rediker
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.029 3.38 The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by J. R. McNeill
1.029 4.02 A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
1.028 3.79 Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut
1.028 3.79 The Little Red Fish by Tae-Eun Yoo
1.026 4.09 Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
1.025 3.41 The Book of Proper Names by Amélie Nothomb
1.021 3.75 The Locked Room by Paul Auster
1.017 3.80 The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac
1.015 3.43 Bad Karma by David Safier
1.013 3.51 Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb
1.011 3.68 The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
1.005 3.74 Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker by Syrie James
1.002 3.58 The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes : the adventures of the great detective in India and Tibet by Jamyang Norbu
0.999 3.40 Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
0.997 3.75 My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
0.997 3.96 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
0.996 4.09 Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter
0.995 3.45 Aunt Tula by Miguel de Unamuno
0.989 3.71 All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo
0.985 3.54 The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen
0.980 3.48 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.979 3.80 Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.974 3.80 Candido, or, A dream dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia
0.971 3.67 How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
0.970 3.48 The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
0.968 4.00 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
0.966 3.50 Gli arancini di Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri
0.965 3.56 Poisson d'or by J.M.G. Le Clézio
0.963 3.64 The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
0.959 3.99 The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
0.959 3.12 The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas
0.957 4.15 Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
0.955 3.65 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
0.955 3.79 Silk by Alessandro Baricco
0.952 3.73 The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
0.949 3.26 Happy Family by David Safier
0.948 3.07 Le voyage d'hiver by Amélie Nothomb
0.947 3.69 The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror {original} by Christopher Moore
0.943 3.68 A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
0.942 3.40 Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
0.942 3.52 On Reading by Marcel Proust
0.942 3.62 The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries by Roger Chartier
0.941 3.21 The Fourth Hand by John Irving
0.941 3.66 Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
0.937 3.69 A Widow for One Year by John Irving
0.936 3.56 Con el agua al cuello by Pétros Márkarīs
0.935 3.71 Hombres buenos by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.935 3.58 El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.933 3.73 Bibliomania: A Tale by Gustave Flaubert
0.933 3.56 Un día de cólera by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
0.932 4.03 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.928 4.15 Africanus. El Hijo del Consul (Spanish Edition) by Santiago Posteguillo
0.922 3.60 The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
0.921 3.98 The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
0.920 3.98 But Excuse Me That Is My Book by Lauren Child
0.918 3.55 The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
0.918 3.83 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.917 4.07 The World According to Garp by John Irving
0.915 3.77 Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
0.915 3.53 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
0.911 3.52 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
0.908 3.25 Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz
0.905 3.71 The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
0.904 3.25 Maruzza Musumeci by Andrea Camilleri
0.902 4.25 It's a Book by Lane Smith
0.901 3.25 Il tailleur grigio by Andrea Camilleri
0.900 3.47 Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
0.899 3.58 Divorcio en Buda by Sándor Márai
0.897 3.39 Un filo di fumo by Andrea Camilleri
0.896 3.92 Roger is Reading a Book by Koen Van Biesen
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
0.894 4.11 The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
0.894 3.57 Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
0.894 3.42 Haunting Jasmine by Anjali Banerjee
0.893 3.65 The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
0.892 3.89 With Borges by Alberto Manguel
0.891 3.26 La rizzagliata by Andrea Camilleri
0.891 3.60 La herencia de Eszter by Sándor Márai
0.889 3.21 La Pensione Eva by Andrea Camilleri
0.889 3.10 Night Train by Martin Amis
0.888 4.27 Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke
0.886 3.95 Offering to the Storm by Dolores Redondo
0.885 4.28 Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong
0.884 3.48 Have I Got a Book for You! by Mélanie Watt
0.883 3.35 Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
0.882 3.46 Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins
0.878 3.75 The Venus Throw by Steven Saylor
0.877 3.71 What Is Cultural History? by Peter Burke
0.876 3.85 The Water Rituals by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
0.875 3.84 Heretics by Leonardo Padura
0.871 4.05 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
0.871 3.97 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
0.867 3.82 A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq by Fernando Báez
0.864 3.54 The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
0.864 3.74 To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
0.864 4.03 Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath by Carlo Ginzburg
0.863 3.47 The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul
0.862 3.63 The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
0.862 3.60 Empire of Dragons by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
0.861 3.63 Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
0.859 3.05 The Oracle by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
0.858 4.16 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
0.858 3.79 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
0.857 3.92 The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley
0.856 3.69 The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
0.856 3.66 La balia by Pétros Márkarīs
0.855 4.12 Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
0.854 3.68 The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
0.854 3.89 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
0.853 4.12 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.853 3.85 Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
0.852 3.51 Si menges una llimona sense fer ganyotes by Sergi Pàmies
0.850 4.09 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
0.850 3.71 The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan D. Spence
0.850 4.06 The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy
0.849 4.05 The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
0.849 3.52 Smut: two unseemly stories by Alan Bennett
0.849 3.65 Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
0.849 2.86 The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
0.847 3.73 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
0.846 3.45 Sun Storm by Åsa Larsson
0.843 3.61 Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura
0.843 4.27 The Library by Sarah Stewart
0.839 3.57 The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri
0.839 4.20 Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
0.838 3.63 Le ragazze di Sanfrediano by Vasco Pratolini
0.831 3.73 El paciente by Juan Gómez-Jurado
0.830 3.61 The Death of Faith by Donna Leon
0.827 4.02 Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree by Naoko Stoop
0.826 3.57 Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
0.826 4.24 The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
0.826 3.89 Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann
0.824 3.70 The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald
0.823 4.19 Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
0.823 3.97 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
0.822 4.17 Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver
0.822 3.76 Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
0.821 3.40 Il nipote del Negus by Andrea Camilleri
0.820 3.59 Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
0.820 3.86 The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
0.819 3.50 East is East by T.C. Boyle
0.819 3.97 A Story for Bear by Dennis Haseley
0.818 4.08 End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman
0.817 3.60 The Sect of Angels by Andrea Camilleri
0.817 3.80 Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor
0.815 3.68 The Courilof Affair by Irène Némirovsky
0.813 3.90 A Murder on the Appian Way by Steven Saylor
0.812 4.00 The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy by Peter Burke
0.810 3.47 Deadline in Athens by Pétros Márkarīs
0.808 4.26 A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell
0.808 3.68 The Golden Egg by Donna Leon
0.806 3.71 Arms of Nemesis by Steven Saylor
0.806 4.12 Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter
0.805 3.61 South from Granada by Gerald Brenan
0.805 3.78 Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri
0.804 3.82 One Virgin Too Many by Lindsey Davis
0.801 3.64 Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
0.799 3.79 Great Dream of Heaven: Stories by Sam Shepard
0.798 3.59 Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
0.798 3.35 Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson
0.797 3.91 Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S. Lawson
0.797 3.98 Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
0.796 4.09 The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton
0.795 3.65 A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon
0.794 3.83 Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
0.794 4.49 Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher De Hamel
0.794 3.76 The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
0.793 3.83 Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
0.793 3.56 The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
0.792 3.53 Treasure Hunt by Andrea Camilleri
0.792 3.92 The Eagle's Prey by Simon Scarrow
0.791 3.73 A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor
0.790 4.28 Stoner by John Williams
0.789 3.62 The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
0.788 3.65 The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri
0.785 3.93 The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books : Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
0.784 3.77 See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis
0.784 4.09 Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose by Raymond Carver
0.783 3.94 The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
0.782 3.43 An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
0.781 3.59 Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon
0.780 3.86 Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
0.779 4.28 Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
0.779 3.81 Time to Depart by Lindsey Davis
0.778 3.83 A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
0.776 4.16 How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills
0.774 3.87 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
0.766 3.96 Accabadora by Michela Murgia
0.766 3.63 Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
0.765 3.89 Poseidon's Gold by Lindsey Davis
0.762 3.73 The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo
0.762 3.72 Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
0.758 4.39 A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers
0.750 3.71 Wilful Behaviour by Donna Leon
0.750 4.02 Scribes and Illuminators by Christopher De Hamel
0.750 3.76 The Winners by Julio Cortázar
0.745 3.46 Zone Defence by Pétros Márkarīs
0.742 3.59 Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future by Jason Epstein
0.741 3.84 The Accusers by Lindsey Davis
0.739 3.78 Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri
0.735 4.01 Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson
0.733 3.94 The Eagles Prophecy by Simon Scarrow
0.731 3.96 The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia
0.730 4.20 Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie by Jennifer Berne
0.730 4.02 The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
0.727 3.90 Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
0.724 3.70 Wrath of the Furies by Steven Saylor
0.722 3.96 Intellectuals in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff
0.721 3.62 By Its Cover by Donna Leon
0.720 3.69 Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
0.718 3.85 War in the Middle Ages by Philippe Contamine
0.716 3.88 The Eagle and the Wolves by Simon Scarrow
0.715 3.46 To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by Simon Garfield
0.712 3.92 The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon
0.710 4.00 Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders
0.710 4.34 That Book Woman by Heather Henson
0.710 3.78 The Gladiator by Simon Scarrow
0.705 3.64 Falling in Love by Donna Leon
0.705 3.85 The City of Words by Alberto Manguel
0.705 3.70 Game of Mirrors by Andrea Camilleri
0.704 4.05 The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E. J. Wagner
0.691 4.21 Bunny's Book Club by Annie Silvestro
0.679 3.80 The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
0.668 4.18 Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura
0.666 3.97 The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo
0.652 4.55 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
0.651 4.29 Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
0.647 3.71 Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
0.643 4.06 Stella Louella's Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
0.632 4.04 First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
0.626 3.95 Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
0.625 3.70 A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel
0.618 4.47 The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
0.610 4.09 Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
0.568 4.15 Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
0.553 3.54 The Catch: and other War Stories by Kenzaburō Ōe
0.464 4.65 Phileas's Fortune by Agnès de Lestrade