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
1.191	3.28	Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant
1.189	3.41	Due di due by Andrea De Carlo
1.132	4.21	Catechism of the Catholic Church by Catholic Church
1.132	3.76	The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.119	3.62	Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1.111	3.91	Epodes and Odes by Horace
1.109	3.42	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.107	3.45	Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
1.097	4.02	The Holy Bible, with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) by NRSV
1.081	3.87	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.071	3.48	Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
1.052	3.93	Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.05	3.65	Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.049	3.78	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.046	3.53	Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.031	3.56	Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.03	3.85	The Republic by Plato
1.026	3.85	Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1.02	3.92	Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
1.019	3.54	Oxford Latin Course, Part I (2nd edition) by Maurice Balme
1.014	3.54	On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.01	3.95	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.01	3.89	Pensées by Blaise Pascal
1.007	3.72	The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
1.003	3.59	The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
1.003	3.91	Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
1.003	4.08	Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
1.001	3.8	The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
1.001	3.7	The Satyricon by Petronius
0.998	3.67	Poetics by Aristoteles
0.998	3.92	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
0.998	3.8	Silk by Alessandro Baricco
0.996	3.65	Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
0.994	3.74	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
0.993	3.26	Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo by Enrico Brizzi
0.989	4.16	Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis by J. K. Rowling
0.984	3.82	Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachae) by Aristoteles
0.983	3.47	Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
0.973	4	The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
0.972	3.9	Abridged Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell
0.963	3.94	The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
0.962	3.66	A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
0.961	3.89	Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
0.96	3.72	Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
0.959	4.16	The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
0.955	3.7	The First Man by Albert Camus
0.954	3.79	Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.952	3.97	Fitted Knits: 25 Designs for the Fashionable Knitter by Stefanie Japel
0.949	3.67	The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
0.947	4.06	The Iliad by Homer
0.947	3.82	The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.941	3.91	History of Rome, books 21-30 by Titus Livius Livy
0.94	3.59	The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
0.938	3.94	The Aeneid by Virgil
0.937	3.98	501 German Verbs by Henry Strutz
0.928	3.88	Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
0.928	4.44	Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
0.927	3.86	Waiting for God by Simone Weil
0.927	3.73	The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
0.927	4.17	501 French Verbs by Christopher Kendris
0.926	4.01	A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
0.925	3.89	Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
0.923	3.98	As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History by Jo-Ann Shelton
0.923	4.09	In The Grip Of Grace by Max Lucado
0.919	3.9	Drawing the Head and Figure by Jack Hamm
0.915	4.18	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.915	3.96	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
0.91	3.91	Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
0.91	4.04	Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
0.906	3.57	Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I by Maurice Balme
0.898	4.1	Metamorphoses by Ovidius
0.897	3.82	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
0.894	3.96	In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
0.893	4.3	Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
0.893	4.08	Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens
0.892	3.78	The Homeric Hymns by Homer
0.889	3.93	The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro
0.887	3.84	The Golden Ass by Apuleius
0.886	4.12	A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.883	3.68	Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
0.883	3.84	What the body remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
0.88	4.09	Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
0.88	3.9	The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 AD by Peter Brown
0.879	4.13	I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
0.875	3.92	Martin Luther : Selections From His Writings by Martin Luther
0.874	4.23	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
0.871	4.09	Emma by Jane Austen
0.87	4.03	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.87	3.83	Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
0.87	3.77	101 Designer One-Skein Wonders: A World of Possibilities Inspired by Just One Skein by Judith Durant
0.87	3.88	A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
0.866	3.51	Helpless: A Novel by Barbara Gowdy
0.863	4.23	Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
0.862	3.63	Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
0.86	3.8	Stitch 'n Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller
0.854	4	The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
0.852	3.69	Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann
0.848	3.93	Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
0.847	4.08	Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller
0.844	4.16	Knitting in Plain English by Maggie Righetti

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