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
1.097	3.77	Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
1.097	3.8	The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens
1.085	3.62	Rhetoric (Ars Rhetorica) by Aristoteles
1.05	3.65	Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.033	3.88	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.031	3.56	Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.023	3.84	The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
0.999	3.65	Politics by Aristoteles
0.984	3.82	Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachae) by Aristoteles
0.975	4.1	Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
0.975	3.6	Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.931	4.03	Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
0.872	4.38	The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
0.858	4.49	Collected poems by Wallace Stevens
0.857	4.08	Selected Poems, 1923-58 by e. e. cummings
0.844	4.22	Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
0.792	4.15	The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas
0.774	4.25	Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
0.679	4.29	The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke
0.662	4.47	The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised Edition by William Blake

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