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
1.538	3.55	10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker
1.452	3.61	The Last Centurion by John Ringo
1.312	3.44	Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter
1.276	3.71	The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza
1.249	3.5	The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein
1.248	3.84	On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Harry G. Summers
1.241	4.02	Teot's War by Heather Gladney
1.227	3.43	Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.217	3.6	Blood Roses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.217	3.4	Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.213	2.93	Six of Swords by Carole Nelson Douglas
1.192	3.14	Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.186	4.06	The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork
1.184	3.37	The Galaxy Primes by E. E. "Doc" Smith
1.184	2.94	The Iraq War by John Keegan
1.182	3.77	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.181	3.7	Ghost by John Ringo
1.177	3.43	The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
1.177	3.56	The Warlock Wandering by Christopher Stasheff
1.176	3.05	For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs by Robert A. Heinlein
1.176	3.38	Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell by Richard Marcinko
1.176	2.88	Castle of Deception by Mercedes Lackey
1.176	3.51	Conan of the Isles by L. Sprague de Camp
1.167	3.21	The Witch Goddess by Robert Adams
1.165	3.45	Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Mona Charen
1.16	3.46	How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter by Ann Coulter
1.153	3.48	The Tank Lords by David Drake
1.153	3.5	Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.148	3.34	I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
1.144	3.59	Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
1.143	3.06	Bored of the Rings by Harvard Lampoon
1.143	3.5	Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.141	3.37	The Coming of the Horseclans by Robert Adams
1.14	4.02	Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
1.137	3.39	The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook
1.136	3.44	Beyond the Burning Lands by John Christopher
1.136	3.63	Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O'Neill
1.136	4.06	The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
1.133	3.51	Nightseer by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.128	3.42	Skylark Duquesne by E. E. "Doc" Smith
1.126	3.51	Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson
1.125	3.41	Warrior Woman by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1.122	3.66	The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
1.122	3.63	A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
1.121	3.57	Phaze Doubt by Piers Anthony
1.118	3.4	State of Fear by Michael Crichton
1.117	3.63	Princess of Wands by John Ringo
1.117	3.8	The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz
1.116	3.18	The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
1.111	3.57	The Starfollowers of Coramonde by Brian Daley
1.109	3.66	Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers by Harry Harrison
1.103	3.59	Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter
1.103	3.44	Into the Storm by Tom Clancy
1.101	3.65	The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler
1.1	3.62	The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
1.095	4	The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg
1.085	3.3	1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
1.084	3.68	Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen
1.084	3.64	The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew
1.084	3.5	Robot Adept by Piers Anthony
1.083	3.65	The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.083	3.42	Skylark Three by E. E. "Doc" Smith
1.082	4.07	War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today by Max Boot
1.081	3.75	A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.08	3.49	The Prince In Waiting by John Christopher
1.08	3.81	A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.078	3.54	Shardik by Richard Adams
1.074	3.64	A Candle for d'Artagnan by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.073	3.73	Team Yankee by Harold Coyle
1.071	3.35	Unicorn Point by Piers Anthony
1.071	3.85	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1.071	3.25	100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37) by Bernard Goldberg
1.071	3.57	Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.071	3.83	The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.068	3.98	More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr.
1.068	3.34	The Legacy of Gird by Elizabeth Moon
1.066	3.74	When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
1.066	3.43	Sword Point by Harold Coyle
1.065	3.73	Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John R. Lott Jr.
1.064	3.81	Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.063	4.02	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.062	3.39	Donnerjack by Roger Zelazny
1.061	3.33	On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.06	3.46	The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
1.06	3.68	The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen
1.059	3.95	On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
1.058	3.78	Seduced by Moonlight by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.057	3.68	Shapechangers by Jennifer Roberson
1.057	3.87	The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by René Grousset
1.057	3.13	Into the Darkness by Harry Turtledove
1.056	3.72	Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo
1.055	3.24	Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1.055	3.86	A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.055	3.58	Pawing Through the Past by Rita Mae Brown
1.054	3.54	The Doomfarers of Coramonde by Brian Daley
1.052	3.63	Hôtel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.051	3.75	Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer
1.049	3.55	Dragonshadow by Barbara Hambly
1.049	3.79	To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
1.046	3.97	I, Lucifer by Peter O'Donnell

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