Controversial Books

This page shows your 100 most controversial books, as measured by the standard deviation of members star ratings. (This is also the source of the Zeitgeist category "25 Books People Can't Agree on.") To be included, a book must have been rated at least 20 times. Work titles are given.

Standard Deviation	Rating	Title
1.05	3.82	All the Living by C. E. Morgan
1.03	3.74	Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
1.023	3.84	Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber
0.982	3.54	The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
0.969	4.01	Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
0.951	3.83	The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston
0.95	3.87	Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
0.944	3.72	The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston
0.936	3.63	Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
0.934	3.74	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
0.928	3.97	The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston
0.914	3.9	Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
0.903	3.07	Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
0.894	3.87	Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
0.885	4.07	Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
0.881	4.15	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.878	2.96	A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
0.876	3.86	The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
0.875	3.99	The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
0.866	3.76	Thunderhead by Douglas Preston
0.862	3.88	When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
0.862	3.95	Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
0.859	3.74	War dances by Sherman Alexie
0.858	3.73	Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston
0.857	3.88	The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
0.855	3.91	The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.853	3.45	Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
0.85	3.93	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
0.848	4.1	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.846	4.1	In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
0.845	4.24	The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
0.842	3.78	The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel by Jennifer Cody Epstein
0.837	3.93	Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
0.83	4.07	Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
0.83	3.98	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
0.826	3.97	The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
0.819	4.01	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
0.799	3.83	Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
0.79	4.1	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
0.782	4.16	Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.755	3.94	Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
0.747	3.69	Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
0.705	3.76	Etta by Gerald Kolpan

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