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
1.32	3.56	Supernature (Coronet Books) by Lyall Watson
1.282	4.17	Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
1.277	3.22	The Celestine Prophesy: An Adventure by James Redfield
1.258	2.54	Gods From Outer Space by Erich von Däniken
1.238	2.68	The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank J. Tipler
1.238	3.56	Lautlos by Frank Schätzing
1.216	3.47	The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
1.213	3.7	The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
1.207	3.71	Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg
1.199	2.67	Killing Time by Caleb Carr
1.196	3.63	Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.193	3.82	The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain by William H. Calvin
1.188	3.48	Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern
1.178	3.53	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.176	3.52	The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
1.176	3.24	Raj by Gita Mehta
1.162	3.13	The Celtic Riddle by Lyn Hamilton
1.155	4.02	Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
1.151	3.65	A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau
1.148	4.53	Elements by Euclid
1.147	3.86	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.138	3.36	Hannibal by Thomas Harris
1.132	3.38	The Rat by Günter Grass
1.131	3.82	The Dwarves by Markus Heitz
1.13	3.61	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.128	3.42	Skylark Duquesne by E. E. "Doc" Smith
1.126	3.76	Eragon by Christopher Paolini
1.113	3.8	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.109	3.42	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.106	3.25	Fools Die by Mario Puzo
1.1	3.63	Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
1.093	3.62	On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
1.09	3.11	Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo
1.089	3.95	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1.088	3.97	Madame Curie by Eve Curie
1.087	3.16	Neanderthal by John Darnton
1.085	3.67	Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
1.082	3.3	The Rose of the World by Jude Fisher
1.081	3.38	Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1.081	3.82	Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
1.078	3.64	Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
1.076	3.6	Asterix and Obelix All at Sea by Albert Uderzo
1.07	3.68	The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
1.068	3.58	The Robbers by Friedrich von Schiller
1.067	3.87	Water Touching Stone by Eliot Pattison
1.065	3.24	Athabasca by Alistair MacLean
1.065	3.65	Who Am I? – And If So, How Many?: A Philosophical Journey by Richard David Precht
1.064	3.77	Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody
1.063	4.13	The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number by Gottlob Frege
1.062	3.48	The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
1.059	3.51	Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye
1.059	3.85	The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
1.057	3.87	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.057	3.8	The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
1.056	3.48	The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold
1.053	3.97	Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod
1.052	3.51	The Satan Bug by Alistair MacLean
1.05	3.5	The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1.049	3.5	A Painted House by John Grisham
1.047	3.55	Asterix and Son by Albert Uderzo
1.045	3.92	Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
1.043	3.82	The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg
1.042	3.56	Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon
1.042	3.89	Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein
1.04	3.3	The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1.039	3.59	The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.036	3.48	Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.036	3.68	Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine
1.034	3.79	Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist
1.033	3.88	Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
1.033	3.88	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.032	3.71	Asterix and the Magic Carpet by Albert Uderzo
1.032	3.57	Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1.032	3.82	The Flounder by Günter Grass
1.032	3.64	Flatterland by Ian Stewart
1.031	3.56	Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.031	3.99	Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
1.03	3.41	Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller
1.029	3.91	The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.029	3.1	Het Sixtijnse geheim by Philipp Vandenberg
1.027	3.43	Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison
1.027	3.85	To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
1.024	3.47	Firmin by Sam Savage
1.023	4.05	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition by Galileo Galilei
1.022	3.62	Antigone by Sophocles
1.021	3.89	Eldest by Christopher Paolini
1.02	3.48	Night Over Water by Ken Follett
1.018	3.74	La Petite Fadette by George Sand
1.018	3.26	The Heirs of Hammerfell by Marion Zimmer Bradley
1.014	3.95	The Revenge of the Dwarves by Markus Heitz
1.014	3.82	Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne
1.013	4.17	On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1.011	3.53	Asterix and the Secret Weapon by Albert Uderzo
1.011	4.21	Elements, books 1-2 by Euclid
1.01	3.89	Pensées by Blaise Pascal
1.008	3.65	Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe by Michio Kaku
1.008	3.63	When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean
1.006	4	Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
1.006	3.65	La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas
1.006	3.4	Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass

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