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
1.362	3.6	Giants and Ogres (Enchanted World) by Time-Life Books
1.349	3.5	The Iron Tower Omnibus by Dennis L. McKiernan
1.33	3.7	Legends of Valor (Enchanted World) by Brendan Lehane
1.319	3.39	Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper by Kathryn Kenny
1.279	3.25	Dreadnought! by Diane Carey
1.264	2.68	Planet of Twilight by Barbara Hambly
1.243	3.53	The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman
1.23	3.52	Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Queen's Necklace by Kathryn Kenny
1.216	3.6	The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
1.215	3.38	Catnap by Carole Nelson Douglas
1.205	3.94	The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole
1.201	3.06	The New Rebellion by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1.195	3.66	The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
1.194	2.85	Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly
1.185	2.62	The Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre
1.184	3.57	The Mystery of the Cranky Collector by Mary Carey
1.182	3.86	Night Creatures (Enchanted World) by Time-Life Books
1.182	3.51	The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future by James L. Halperin
1.182	3.77	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.181	3.39	The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell
1.181	3.74	Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Edition) by Emily Brontë
1.178	3.53	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.177	3.31	Battlestations! by Diane Carey
1.177	2.97	The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery by Enrique Joven
1.176	3.48	Not a Girl Detective by Susan Kandel
1.175	3.68	The King's English by Betsy Burton
1.174	3.45	The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut
1.173	3.46	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.17	3.43	Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker
1.165	3.66	The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly
1.163	3.19	The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton
1.162	3.65	All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat by Suzy Becker
1.159	3.77	Wizards and Witches (Enchanted World) by Brendan Lehane
1.155	3.38	The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
1.155	3.71	Vacation Under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne
1.155	3.13	Shadow Academy by Kevin J. Anderson
1.154	3.44	The Seeds of Time by Kay Kenyon
1.154	3.75	I, Jedi by Michael A. Stackpole
1.153	3.64	Lightsabers by Kevin J. Anderson
1.152	3.65	Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
1.151	3.95	Adventures in Time and Space by Raymond J. Healy
1.146	3.66	Two Years' Vacation by Jules Verne
1.144	3.95	Boy Scout Handbook by Boy Scouts of America
1.142	3.23	Death of the Party by Carolyn Hart
1.142	3.16	The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun
1.14	3.52	Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
1.139	3.59	The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon by Nick West
1.136	3.44	Beyond the Burning Lands by John Christopher
1.134	3.38	PHP for the World Wide Web, Second Edition by Larry Ullman
1.134	2.9	The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
1.134	3.05	Shield of Lies by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
1.133	3.49	The Secret of the Golden Pavilion by Carolyn Keene
1.132	3.76	The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.131	3.85	This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
1.131	3.83	Federation by Judith Reeves-Stevens
1.131	2.96	The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
1.13	3.12	Before the Storm by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
1.129	3.76	Operation Typhoon Shore: The Guild of Specialists Book 2 (The Guild Specialists) by Joshua Mowll
1.127	3.19	The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
1.127	3.79	The Wild Road by Gabriel King
1.127	3.32	The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
1.127	2.84	Darksaber by Kevin Anderson
1.126	3.55	Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler
1.126	3.76	Eragon by Christopher Paolini
1.126	3.05	Tyrant's Test by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
1.122	3.75	Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths And Their Shared Passion by Leona Rostenberg
1.122	3.35	JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan
1.122	3.52	The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler
1.122	3.38	The Bobbsey Twins: Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out by Laura Lee Hope
1.122	3.43	A Gift of Love (Just Curious / Double Exposure / Gabriels's Angel / Five Golden Rings / Yuletide Treasure) by Judith McNaught
1.121	3.29	Engaged to Die by Carolyn Hart
1.121	3.5	A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
1.121	3.57	Phaze Doubt by Piers Anthony
1.12	3.66	Dragon Weather by Lawrence Watt-Evans
1.119	2.89	The Adventures of Lando Calrissian by L. Neil Smith
1.118	3.4	State of Fear by Michael Crichton
1.117	3.46	Shadow by Dean Wesley Smith
1.117	3.54	Mind-Speaker's Call by Gayle Greeno
1.117	3.17	Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
1.114	3.75	Stage Fright on a Summer Night by Mary Pope Osborne
1.111	3.27	Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
1.109	3.58	The Secret of the Crooked Cat by William Arden
1.108	3.29	The Sea Hunters II by Clive Cussler
1.106	3.25	Vathek by William Beckford
1.105	3.64	Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne
1.105	3.25	Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
1.102	3.63	The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
1.102	3.62	The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich
1.102	2.72	Ghost Ship by Diane Carey
1.102	3.5	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
1.102	3.18	Tales from the New Republic by Peter Schweighofer
1.101	3.5	Rolling Thunder by John Varley
1.099	3.22	Ragged Dick: Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks by Horatio Alger Jr.
1.099	3.35	Attack of the Clones by R.A. Salvatore
1.099	3.81	The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell
1.097	3.89	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.097	3.06	Hook by Terry Brooks
1.097	3.72	The Haunted Showboat by Carolyn Keene
1.094	3.68	Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
1.094	3.52	The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII by Retha M. Warnicke

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