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
1.396	3	The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba
1.373	3.6	The Frogs by Aristophanes
1.35	3.65	Horse Crazy by Bonnie Bryant
1.317	3.51	The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.307	2.79	Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
1.301	3.57	Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
1.288	3.26	Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
1.247	2.7	The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth
1.244	2.87	The Examination (Sunburst Book) by Malcolm Bosse
1.244	3.57	The Black Stallion's Ghost by Walter Farley
1.242	3.67	The Double Jinx Mystery by Carolyn Keene
1.242	3.44	Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
1.24	3.57	The Stone of Light: Nefer the Silent by Christian Jacq
1.239	2.9	Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
1.236	3.55	A Time for Courage : the Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen by Kathryn Lasky
1.233	3.2	The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
1.228	3.58	Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
1.227	3.22	Sovay by Celia Rees
1.224	3.05	The Ravenscar Dynasty by Barbara Taylor Bradford
1.219	3.37	The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
1.216	3.28	The Cup of the World by John Dickinson
1.216	3.47	The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
1.215	3.15	Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Alexandra Ripley
1.212	3.18	Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
1.21	3.78	The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
1.196	3.63	Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.195	3.57	People of the Wolf by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
1.195	3.83	Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
1.194	3.63	My Heart is on the Ground : the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl by Ann Rinaldi
1.187	4.3	The Holy Bible: New International Version (NIV) by Bible
1.186	3.63	Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham
1.183	3.43	Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
1.182	3.35	Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
1.182	3.77	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.181	3.76	Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1.173	3.46	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.172	3.15	The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams
1.171	3.54	Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
1.17	3.46	Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
1.17	3.71	The Black Stallion Mystery by Walter Farley
1.167	3.31	The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
1.163	3.71	A Coalition of Lions by Elizabeth Wein
1.162	3.97	The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
1.16	3.28	Mission One: The Frankenstein Factory by AJ Butcher
1.156	3.59	Kazunomiya, Prisoner of Heaven by Kathryn Lasky
1.155	3.52	Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Paterson
1.155	3.34	Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
1.154	3.61	The Puritan Dilemma by Edmund S. Morgan
1.154	3.86	Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
1.154	3.41	Adolphe: a story found among the papers of an unknown writer by Benjamin Constant
1.153	3.56	The Black Stallion and the Girl by Walter Farley
1.151	3.65	The Rising Force by Dave Wolverton
1.15	3.75	Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit
1.15	4.01	San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion by Marguerite Henry
1.147	3.86	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.146	3.56	Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
1.146	3.94	Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.145	3.56	Amanda / Miranda by Richard Peck
1.143	3.48	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics by William L. Riordan
1.143	3.06	Bored of the Rings by Harvard Lampoon
1.141	3.76	The Broken Blade by William Durbin
1.138	3.77	One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping : the Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
1.137	3.55	Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
1.133	3.93	Meet Samantha: An American Girl by Susan S. Adler
1.133	3.52	The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
1.132	3.76	The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.131	3.38	Spirited: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" by Nancy Holder
1.128	3.34	The Two Pound Tram by William Newton
1.128	3.49	Ramses: The Son Of The Light by Christian Jacq
1.127	3.33	Love Story by Erich Segal
1.127	3.61	The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
1.126	3.76	Eragon by Christopher Paolini
1.126	3.63	The Eclogues by Virgil
1.125	3.72	Frisk by Dennis Cooper
1.121	3.52	The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
1.121	3.43	The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
1.121	3.79	So far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
1.121	4.07	The Young Black Stallion by Walter Farley
1.12	3.75	The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
1.118	3.44	The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
1.118	3.48	The Sword of Bedwyr by R.A. Salvatore
1.117	3.69	Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
1.116	4.07	Ulysses by James Joyce
1.113	3.49	The Russian concubine by Kate Furnivall
1.113	3.81	The Black Stallion Legend by Walter Farley
1.111	3.51	The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby
1.109	3.42	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.108	3.8	Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution (Great Episodes) by William Lavender
1.108	3.72	Christmas After All : the Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift by Kathryn Lasky
1.107	3.67	The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
1.106	3.97	Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story by Maxine Rose Schur
1.106	3.41	The School for Wives by Molière
1.105	3.9	To Catch a Pirate by Jade Parker
1.104	3.57	The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1.103	3.64	Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.103	3.7	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
1.103	3.95	Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
1.102	3.68	Final Warning by James Patterson
1.102	4	Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
1.1	3.23	Prague by Arthur Phillips

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