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
1.204	3.07	Violin by Anne Rice
1.199	3.21	The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure
1.178	3.53	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.169	3.71	No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs
1.165	3.52	Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
1.147	3.86	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.128	3.12	Empire by Orson Scott Card
1.128	3.67	The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
1.117	3.17	Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
1.098	3.44	Blood Canticle by Anne Rice
1.096	3.66	Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
1.092	3.42	Merrick by Anne Rice
1.085	3.67	Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
1.084	3.33	Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke
1.081	3.67	The MacGregors: Daniel ~ Ian [2-in-1] by Nora Roberts
1.079	3.71	The MacGregors: Serena ~ Caine [2-in-1] by Nora Roberts
1.076	3.16	How to Cook a Tart by Nina Killham
1.071	3.85	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1.067	3.65	The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
1.065	3.43	The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
1.065	3.59	Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
1.062	3.27	Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice
1.06	3.67	Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
1.053	3.51	Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
1.05	3.83	The MacGregors: Alan ~ Grant [2-in-1] by Nora Roberts
1.042	3.31	Deception Point by Dan Brown
1.042	3.64	Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
1.037	3.44	Garden of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
1.034	3.51	JPod by Douglas Coupland
1.034	3.67	The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
1.034	3.4	Pandora by Anne Rice
1.033	3.56	The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
1.027	3.62	Remember When by Nora Roberts
1.023	3.19	Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
1.021	3.56	Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
1.02	3.18	Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
1.015	3.76	Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.015	3.82	When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
1.014	3.47	Taltos by Anne Rice
1.013	4.17	On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1.001	3.59	The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1	3.95	Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.997	4.11	Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
0.993	3.67	Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
0.992	3.55	Lasher by Anne Rice
0.989	3.8	Red Lily by Nora Roberts
0.986	3.65	Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
0.985	3.63	Born O'Hurley [2-in-1]: The Last Honest Woman • Dance to the Piper by Nora Roberts
0.984	3.96	Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
0.983	3.77	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.982	3.94	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.982	3.75	Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
0.981	3.65	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
0.98	3.54	Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
0.978	3.66	Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
0.977	3.52	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
0.977	4.01	The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
0.977	3.88	Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
0.976	3.42	Cujo by Stephen King
0.976	3.67	Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts
0.971	4.16	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
0.969	3.9	Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts
0.968	3.82	Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
0.966	3.94	The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
0.966	3.56	The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
0.966	3.76	Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.965	3.17	Homebody by Orson Scott Card
0.964	3.7	Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.962	3.72	Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
0.962	3.8	Treason by Orson Scott Card
0.962	3.4	Thinner by Stephen King
0.961	4	Macbeth by William Shakespeare
0.959	3.8	Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
0.959	4.16	The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
0.959	3.91	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.959	3.85	Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
0.958	3.69	Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
0.955	3.63	Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
0.955	3.83	Face the Fire by Nora Roberts
0.954	3.89	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.954	3.63	Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
0.954	3.59	Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card
0.954	3.79	Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
0.953	3.94	The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
0.953	3.66	The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
0.95	3.53	Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
0.949	4.13	The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.949	4.09	Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.948	3.98	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
0.948	3.78	Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
0.947	4.06	The Iliad by Homer
0.947	3.92	Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
0.947	4.03	Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
0.946	3.79	Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
0.946	3.89	Solaris by Stanisław Lem
0.943	3.49	The Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card
0.942	4.02	The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.942	3.85	Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts
0.941	3.83	Black Rose by Nora Roberts
0.941	3.8	The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

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