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
1.4273.65Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
1.1883.71Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 6) by Leonard Peikoff
1.1553.92Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.143.74A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
1.0713.83The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.0693.65Anthem by Ayn Rand
1.063.61Camelot 30K by Robert L. Forward
1.0593.98The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.0284.09A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
1.0043.32The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
0.9884.05Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut
0.9813.58Moving Mars by Greg Bear
0.9664.03Eugene Onegin : a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
0.9643.92Villette by Charlotte Brontë
0.9443.82Alaska by James A. Michener
0.9423.79The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
0.9423.82Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
0.9294Cecilia by Frances Burney
0.9143.65Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville
0.9134.13A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber
0.9124.25Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.9114.22Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
0.9024.02The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.9013.77Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.93.82Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
0.8963.72Eon by Greg Bear
0.8934.29War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.8894.43The Law by Claude Frédéric Bastiat
0.8813.51The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
0.8754.31Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
0.8714.09Emma by Jane Austen
0.874.19The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.8684.26The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.8623.92The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
0.863.97The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
0.8574.15Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.8524.25Persuasion by Jane Austen
0.8484.11A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
0.8464.03Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P. G. Wodehouse
0.8434.15Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.8414.1The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
0.8324.17Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
0.8323.56Eternity by Greg Bear
0.833.61The Forge of God by Greg Bear
0.8263.99Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
0.824.46Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.8064.27Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse
0.7924.17The Brontës by Juliet Barker
0.7833.66Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
0.7733.65Cold As Ice by Charles Sheffield
0.7623.9The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik
0.7584.53The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.7573.74Sanditon and Other Stories by Jane Austen
0.7513.58Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
0.7433.84Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
0.744.19Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
0.7324.28The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
0.734.19Much Obliged, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
0.7263.91The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
0.7234Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
0.723.86Passionate minds : the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Chatelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world by David Bodanis
0.714.13Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel
0.564.52The complete novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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