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
1.308	2.4	Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
1.246	2.76	The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone by Daniel Meyerson
1.235	3.58	Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
1.204	3.07	Violin by Anne Rice
1.199	3.16	Phantom Pain by Arnon Grunberg
1.195	3.82	The Holy Qur'an (Abdullah Yusuf Ali, 1934) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
1.183	3.72	Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
1.182	3.77	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.178	3.42	Der Schatz im Silbersee by Karl May
1.178	3.53	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.165	3.52	Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
1.163	3.54	The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1.158	3.81	Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.158	3.11	In the Cut by Susanna Moore
1.155	3.92	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.146	3.63	Two Years' Vacation by Jules Verne
1.144	3.86	The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
1.138	3.36	Hannibal by Thomas Harris
1.137	3.55	Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
1.133	3	Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
1.13	3.61	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.122	3.09	De hemel van Hollywood by Leon de Winter
1.121	3.52	Be My Knife by David Grossman
1.118	3.4	State of Fear by Michael Crichton
1.118	3.5	Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson by Paul Perry
1.117	3.68	Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1.116	4.07	Ulysses by James Joyce
1.116	4.01	Imajica: The Reconciliation by Clive Barker
1.112	3.54	The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
1.107	3.79	IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black
1.103	3.82	How to cure a fanatic by Amos Oz
1.099	3.71	On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.097	3.89	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.092	3.55	The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
1.088	3.66	Les vaisseaux du coeur by Benoîte Groult
1.086	3.68	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
1.085	3.27	Gerald's Game by Stephen King
1.085	3.67	Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
1.078	3.54	Shardik by Richard Adams
1.078	3.74	Tirza by Arnon Grunberg
1.078	3.71	The Lord of the Rings: Appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.077	3.26	House Atreides by Brian Herbert
1.074	3.5	More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
1.071	3.85	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1.071	3.83	The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.07	4.07	Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan by Richard Hittleman
1.069	3.29	Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
1.067	3.92	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.062	3.75	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.062	3.4	Great Apes by Will Self
1.06	3.65	Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1.059	3.98	The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.057	3.87	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.056	3.75	Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
1.056	3.4	Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
1.055	3.55	Timeline by Michael Crichton
1.055	3.68	Personal Darkness by Lee Tanith
1.054	3.67	Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1.054	3.35	Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death by James Van Praagh
1.053	3.34	The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
1.051	3.5	Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
1.047	3.68	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.047	3.13	Love and War by Margaret Weis
1.046	3.8	The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.045	3.69	Bad Men by John Connolly
1.044	3.24	Next by Michael Crichton
1.043	3.52	The Screenwriter's Workbook (A Dell Trade Paperback) by Syd Field
1.042	3.65	Insomnia by Stephen King
1.042	3.59	A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
1.042	3.06	Hard Merchandise by K. W. Jeter
1.042	3.31	Deception Point by Dan Brown
1.04	3.17	De asielzoeker by Arnon Grunberg
1.04	3.3	The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1.039	3.04	Blauwe maandagen by Arnon Grunberg
1.038	3.33	The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
1.037	3.58	The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
1.034	3.67	The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
1.034	3.63	Hoffman's honger : roman by Leon de Winter
1.033	3.77	The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth
1.033	3.41	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
1.033	3.56	The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
1.032	3.79	Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
1.031	3.9	The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
1.03	3.71	Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.03	3.36	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
1.03	3.53	Families and How to Survive Them by Robin Skynner
1.029	3.91	The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.029	3.34	The Regulators by Stephen King
1.029	3.84	De avonden by Gerard Reve
1.027	3.47	Well of Darkness by Margaret Weis
1.026	3.57	Lila Says: A Novel by Chimo
1.026	3.85	Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1.025	3.73	Friday by Robert A. Heinlein
1.025	3.96	Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.024	3.91	The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.024	3.98	De Nederlandse poëzie van de negentiende en twintigste eeuw in duizend en enige gedichten by Gerrit Komrij
1.02	3.38	The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman
1.019	3.29	My Idea of Fun by Will Self
1.019	3.4	A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin
1.018	3.91	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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