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
1.081	3.87	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.072	3.71	Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1.067	3.92	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.013	3.65	Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
1.01	3.95	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
0.994	3.78	Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
0.994	3.72	Island by Aldous Huxley
0.953	4.01	The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
0.936	4.02	The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
0.936	4.06	Lust for Life by Irving Stone
0.917	3.31	Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
0.915	4.18	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.902	4.02	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.898	3.97	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.893	4.29	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.892	3.32	Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
0.878	3.87	The Captive Queen of Scotts by Jean Plaidy
0.868	4.26	The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.861	4.25	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.859	4.06	In a dark wood wandering by Hella S. Haasse
0.858	4.28	The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
0.844	4.38	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
0.839	3.66	The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy
0.836	4.27	1984 by George Orwell
0.831	3.45	Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
0.825	4.03	Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
0.816	4.42	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.804	4.35	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.802	4.15	The collected stories by Alexander Pushkin
0.8	4.35	Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
0.794	4.35	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.781	4.43	The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.758	4.54	The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

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