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
1.1064.03The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by Kenneth H. Blanchard
1.0934.02Roadfood by Jane Stern
1.0923.54Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble
1.0863.45Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible by Peter Manseau
1.0863.86On Becoming a Leader by Warren G. Bennis
1.0674.01Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk
1.0633.83One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer
1.053.48Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership by Lee G. Bolman
1.0333.67The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1.033.85The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
1.0293.95Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by James C. Collins
1.0283.57The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
1.0263.04Candy and Me: A Girl's Tale of Life, Love, and Sugar by Hilary Liftin
1.0173.97How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
0.9723.54The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins
0.9664.33Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
0.9613.46Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
0.9593.66Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
0.9543.91This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison
0.9513.99Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins
0.9513.81Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
0.9483.82First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
0.9383.75Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
0.9354.05Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 by Benny Morris
0.9354.07Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
0.9023.86Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays by Albert Camus
0.93.64What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman
0.8933.9Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
0.8844.11The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
0.8774.02Hiroshima by John Hersey
0.8693.65Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets by Nicole Blackman
0.8654.01The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
0.8634.06A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
0.8623.96Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
0.8553.88Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni
0.8494.02A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
0.8484.01The Samurai's Garden: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama
0.844.17They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss
0.8353.99Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld
0.8343.98The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
0.8243.7Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock
0.8234.33Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project by Dave Isay
0.8193.94Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
0.8144.1The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer
0.7864The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie
0.7793.9Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
0.7753.93Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse by Steve Bogira
0.7634.14The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
0.7274.05War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll
0.7174.18War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black
0.74.46Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
0.6943.95Moon Handbooks Road Trip USA by Jamie Jensen
0.6924.44Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
0.6744.33Our America: Life And Death On The South Side Of Chicago by LeAlan Jones
0.6684.13Thompson Chain-Reference Bible: NIV by Frank Charles Thompson
0.663.92The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life, 4th Edition by Nancy L. Mace
0.6093.88Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko
0.4533.6The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
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