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
1.094	3.76	The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.052	3.66	Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
1.049	3.78	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.047	3.67	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.044	3.84	She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1.03	3.56	Endless Night by Agatha Christie
1.003	3.61	Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
0.99	3.94	Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
0.974	4.03	The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
0.946	4.16	Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
0.932	3.49	Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
0.915	4.18	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.91	4.52	In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
0.902	4.13	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.897	4.02	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
0.879	4.13	I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
0.878	4.03	Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
0.836	4.27	1984 by George Orwell
0.827	3.6	The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland
0.826	4.23	The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich

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