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
1.072	3.71	Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1.06	3.64	Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1.03	3.92	Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
1.027	3.88	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1.027	3.63	Unended quest by Karl R. Popper
1.026	3.85	Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1.023	3.68	The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
1.023	3.85	The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
1.01	3.95	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.007	3.61	Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1.005	3.85	Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.998	3.93	The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
0.998	3.92	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
0.994	3.72	Island by Aldous Huxley
0.975	3.9	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
0.973	4.18	The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
0.967	3.86	The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
0.966	3.83	The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.956	3.82	Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
0.948	4.01	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
0.947	3.87	The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
0.946	4.24	The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume II: Hegel and Marx by Karl Popper
0.942	4.04	The Trial by Franz Kafka
0.942	3.96	The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays by Albert Camus
0.938	3.82	Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
0.931	4.16	The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
0.925	3.91	Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
0.922	3.8	The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
0.917	3.31	Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
0.916	3.85	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.914	4.11	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
0.914	3.75	The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
0.904	3.98	In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
0.904	4.27	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
0.903	3.95	The Plague by Albert Camus
0.899	4.19	Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
0.898	3.97	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.892	3.32	Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
0.889	4.17	Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian LeverKuhn as told by a friend by Thomas Mann
0.889	3.99	Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
0.885	3.63	God and the New Physics by Paul Davies
0.88	4.26	Bleak House by Charles Dickens
0.874	3.9	Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
0.864	3.46	Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
0.859	3.95	Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
0.857	4.16	Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper
0.85	4.03	Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
0.85	4.18	A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
0.838	3.51	Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
0.816	3.9	Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell
0.804	4.06	The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper
0.773	3.67	The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell
0.748	4.36	Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach by Karl R. Popper
0.692	4.03	Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
0.495	4.44	The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell

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