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
RatingTitle
1.4943.33Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
1.2883.73Illuminatus! Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea
1.2523.52Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
1.2413.65The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin
1.1733.46The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.1533.6Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
1.1253.72Frisk by Dennis Cooper
1.1213.64Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
1.113.51One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
1.1053.2Evasion by CrimethInc.
1.0993.71On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.0933.439-11 by Noam Chomsky
1.0733.88History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukács
1.074.16The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
1.0573.63The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
1.0513.9Illuminatus! Part III: Leviathan by Robert Shea
1.0464.21Capital: A Critique of Political Ecomony, Vol. 1: The Process of Production of Capital by Karl Marx
1.0463.59Triton by Samuel R. Delany
1.0453.74The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
1.0433.83Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
1.0413.89Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource by Alex Wrekk
1.0413.53Simulations (Foreign Agents) by Jean Baudrillard
1.0363.98Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
1.0213.59The Mole People by Jennifer Toth
1.0193.66Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly
1.0183.52The Iron Heel by Jack London
1.0173.52World Orders Old and New by Noam Chomsky
1.013.94Illuminatus! Part II: The Golden Apple by Robert Shea
1.0093.36Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
1.0073.91The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison
1.0054.06The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard
1.0023.79The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
1.0013.93The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne
1.0013.66What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
1.0014.04The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
0.9993.73Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
0.9973.57Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.9924.02The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
0.9923.8The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiography by Aleister Crowley
0.9883.85Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
0.9863.98Neuromancer by William Gibson
0.9854.12Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
0.983.55Femininity by Susan Brownmiller
0.9793.64Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan
0.9773.74Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
0.9674.08Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction by Pat Califia
0.9673.99The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
0.9583.93Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners by CrimethInc.
0.9523.71No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
0.953.4Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas by Sara Lorimer
0.9473.78Europe's Inner Demons by Norman Cohn
0.9463.2Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi
0.9463.83Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam by Jason Burke
0.9433.26Stupid White Men : ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
0.9423.86Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
0.9353.9Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
0.9334.23Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg
0.933.51America by Jean Baudrillard
0.9263.77The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault
0.9234.21Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
0.9234.17The Ego and his Own by Max Stirner
0.9233.76Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery by Starhawk
0.9164.04Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
0.9163.78Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
0.9133.48The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.9124.03Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
0.913.55Threepenny novel by Bertolt Brecht
0.9094.18Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
0.9094.12The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn
0.9054.06The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
0.9044.18Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman
0.9044.06The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.9043.85Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
0.9043.45Distraction by Bruce Sterling
0.9033.79The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
0.9034.13The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
0.9033.93We by Евгений Замятин
0.9033.84Democracy And Education by John Dewey
0.9034.19The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
0.93.98Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
0.8993.9Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan
0.8993.75Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
0.8983.97Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.8974.08Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
0.8873.9Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
0.8863.78The Portable Karl Marx by Karl Marx
0.8834.23Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
0.8833.61Idoru by William Gibson
0.883.91Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
0.8783.64Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
0.8774.02Hiroshima by John Hersey
0.8753.59Marx for Beginners by Rius
0.8743.8Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
0.8744.01To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
0.8733.77The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan by Friedrich Engels
0.8684.2On Subbing: The First Four Years by Dave Roche
0.8683.67Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guérin
0.8633.99Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
0.8593.93Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
0.8593.61Virtual Light by William Gibson
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