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
1.461	3.52	The Stranger by Max Frei
1.369	3.24	The Vanishings (Left Behind: The Kids #1) by Jerry B. Jenkins
1.317	3.16	Wendy by Karen Wallace
1.279	3.25	Dreadnought! by Diane Carey
1.242	3.78	The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
1.237	3.15	Orcs: First Blood by Stan Nicholls
1.229	2.75	My Lord John by Georgette Heyer
1.227	3.25	Sovay by Celia Rees
1.224	3.48	Bloodthirst by J. M. Dillard
1.217	3.91	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1.196	3.63	Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.195	3.25	No Phule Like an Old Phule by Robert Asprin
1.188	3.69	Black Blood by John Meaney
1.177	3.09	Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
1.177	3.31	Battlestations! by Diane Carey
1.177	3.43	The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
1.165	3.52	Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
1.156	3.07	Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
1.155	3.38	The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
1.155	3.68	Juggling by Barbara Trapido
1.151	3.73	The Girl Who Owned A City by O. T. Nelson
1.151	3.83	The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy
1.149	3.47	Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews
1.146	3.94	Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.144	3.3	Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells
1.134	3.68	The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
1.134	3.18	Of Time and Stars: The Worlds of Arthur C.Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke
1.133	3.44	It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume
1.132	3.76	The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.131	4.01	The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells by H. G. Wells
1.13	3.61	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.13	3.32	Metallic Love by Tanith Lee
1.13	3.23	If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews
1.126	3.51	Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson
1.126	3.03	The Wish House by Celia Rees
1.124	3.61	The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
1.122	3.79	The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price
1.121	3.56	Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews
1.116	4.07	Ulysses by James Joyce
1.112	3.66	Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
1.11	3.61	Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
1.108	3.54	Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
1.105	3.45	The Wave by Todd Strasser
1.103	3.64	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.102	4	Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
1.098	3.44	Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews
1.098	3.37	Seeds of Yesterday by V.C. Andrews
1.097	3.89	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.097	3.06	Hook by Terry Brooks
1.096	3.11	Star Trek: The Motion Picture [novelization] by Gene Roddenberry
1.095	2.71	Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
1.091	3.61	A Crack in the Line (Withern Rise) by Michael Lawrence
1.09	3.77	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.089	3.44	Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews
1.087	3.39	The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.086	3.47	Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy
1.084	3.49	The Eternity Artifact by L. E. Modesitt
1.084	3.24	Kristy and the Walking Disaster by Ann M. Martin
1.084	3.5	Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
1.084	3.59	The Chestnut Soldier by Jenny Nimmo
1.084	2.8	Mutiny on the Enterprise by Robert E. Vardeman
1.081	3.87	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.08	3.33	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1.076	3.45	Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
1.073	3.5	Memory Prime by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
1.072	3.49	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by William Kotzwinkle
1.072	3.47	Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley
1.071	3.87	Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
1.071	3.71	Air by Geoff Ryman
1.068	3.52	Forever... by Judy Blume
1.067	3.92	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.065	3.43	The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
1.062	3.75	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.062	2.99	Wifey by Judy Blume
1.061	3.03	Neuropath by Scott Bakker
1.06	3.65	Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1.059	3.35	Never Deal with a Dragon by Robert N. Charrette
1.059	3.6	The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
1.057	3.53	A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1.057	3.5	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [novelization] by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.056	3.4	Garden of shadows by V.C. Andrews
1.055	3.43	Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
1.052	3.83	The Cats of Seroster by Robert Westall
1.051	3.09	The Big U by Neal Stephenson
1.05	3.82	The Wonder Worker by Susan Howatch
1.049	2.98	Misspent Youth by Peter F. Hamilton
1.049	3.33	The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
1.049	3.61	The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
1.049	3.79	To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
1.048	3.61	The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh
1.048	3.87	The Golden Key by Kate Elliot
1.047	3.52	Choose Your Enemies Carefully by Robert N. Charrette
1.046	3.25	Chart Throb by Ben Elton
1.046	3.77	The Changeling by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1.045	3.92	The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
1.045	3.79	The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
1.044	3.33	Flood by Stephen Baxter
1.043	2.93	Debatable Space by Philip Palmer
1.042	3.68	Anastasia has the Answers by Lois Lowry
1.042	3.2	Kristy and the Snobs by Ann M. Martin

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