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
1.294	3.91	Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version by KJV
1.144	3.66	Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
1.14	3.58	Star Wars Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Sansweet
1.128	3.9	Civil War by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
1.126	3.63	The Eclogues by Virgil
1.122	3.63	A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
1.118	3.87	T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Peter Lamborn Wilson
1.113	3.8	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.093	3.64	On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
1.071	3.31	Hadrian's Wall: A Novel by William Dietrich
1.057	3.51	Discourse on Method by René Descartes
1.054	3.49	Collins Gem Latin Dictionary by D. A. Kidd
1.05	3.66	Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.039	3.79	Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
1.036	3.97	Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
1.033	3.88	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.031	3.82	Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
1.03	3.85	The Republic by Plato
1.025	3.84	Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling
1.025	3.72	Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling by C. Scott Littleton
1.02	3.54	The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.019	3.54	Oxford Latin Course, Part I (2nd edition) by Maurice Balme
1.014	3.58	The Centurion's Empire by Sean McMullen
1.013	4.09	Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.012	3.99	The World As Will and Representation, In Two Volumes: Vol. I by Arthur Schopenhauer
1.008	3.74	The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek
1.006	4	City Of God by Augustine of Hippo
1.006	3.6	The Georgics by Virgil
1.006	4.05	Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli
1.005	3.77	Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
1.003	4.09	Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
1.003	3.82	The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings by John Haywood
0.999	3.63	The Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Géza Vermes
0.996	3.73	Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
0.988	3.71	The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson
0.988	3.83	The Satires of Juvenal by Juvenal
0.984	3.82	Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachae) by Aristoteles
0.982	3.91	The Republic and The Law by Cicero
0.981	3.73	How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
0.979	3.62	The History of the Church by Eusebius
0.975	4.1	Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
0.974	4.02	The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
0.974	4.15	Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.973	3.82	Propaganda by Edward Bernays
0.973	4	The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
0.972	4.07	The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.97	3.71	The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
0.969	3.12	Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
0.968	3.92	The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
0.967	4.1	The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
0.966	3.65	The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
0.965	3.52	Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics): Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies by Hesiod
0.965	3.43	The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century by Martin Harry Greenberg
0.963	4.04	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.963	3.76	The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome by Peter Connolly
0.961	3.86	Candide by Voltaire
0.96	3.68	The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
0.959	3.84	The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
0.959	3.79	The Histories by Tacitus
0.959	3.97	Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
0.959	4.03	Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
0.958	3.99	Common Sense by Thomas Paine
0.954	3.79	Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
0.953	3.97	Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough
0.952	3.47	The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe
0.952	3.69	The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. Van Vogt
0.951	4.16	House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
0.949	4.09	Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0.948	3.98	The Symposium by Plato
0.947	4.06	The Iliad by Homer
0.943	4.05	The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
0.942	3.76	Selected tales by Edgar Allan Poe
0.942	3.96	The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays by Albert Camus
0.941	3.91	History of Rome, books 21-30 by Titus Livius Livy
0.941	3.8	The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
0.938	3.93	The Aeneid by Virgil
0.938	3.61	Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
0.936	3.86	The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
0.935	3.8	Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
0.935	3.76	The Analects by Confucius
0.934	3.91	The Upanishads by Anonymous
0.931	3.97	A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
0.928	3.73	Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
0.926	3.83	Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
0.925	3.89	Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
0.924	3.92	A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
0.923	3.98	As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History by Jo-Ann Shelton
0.922	4.14	The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
0.921	3.98	The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick
0.92	3.73	The Satyricon & The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius by Petronius
0.92	3.5	The Comedies by Terence
0.917	3.81	Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak
0.916	3.99	The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.916	3.92	The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
0.913	4.05	The Odyssey by Homer
0.913	4.24	The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
0.912	3.56	Utopia by Thomas More
0.912	4.1	The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
0.912	3.88	The Fall by Albert Camus
0.911	4.15	The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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