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
1.035	4.03	Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
1.025	3.88	Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1.019	3.75	To Live by Yu Hua
1.011	3.63	The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1.004	3.8	Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson
0.997	3.98	Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser
0.997	4.07	Proofs from The Book by Martin Aigner
0.992	3.95	Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by John E. Hopcroft
0.967	3.6	Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz
0.921	3.9	Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
0.915	4.07	The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
0.844	3.98	Algebra by Serge Lang
0.838	3.74	Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life by Leonard Mlodinow
0.825	4.36	Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
0.772	4.27	Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen
0.71	3.56	The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics by Robert Kaplan

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