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
1.78	3.33	The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
1.373	3.6	The Frogs by Aristophanes
1.348	3.37	Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days by Tim LaHaye
1.347	3.1	The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce H. Wilkinson
1.342	3.23	Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Thomas H. Davenport
1.334	3.45	The Shack by William P. Young
1.283	3.39	The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon
1.282	4.17	Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
1.224	3.48	Bloodthirst by J. M. Dillard
1.223	3.73	Revolution in World Missions by K. P. Yohannan
1.21	3.36	They Never Came Home by Lois Duncan
1.208	2.83	Blown Coverage by Jason Elam
1.19	3.23	Survivors by Jean Lorrah
1.189	3.64	The Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
1.187	4.3	The Holy Bible: New International Version (NIV) by Bible
1.187	3.54	The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin
1.182	3.77	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.18	3.15	Here There Be Dragons by John Peel
1.177	3.31	Battlestations! by Diane Carey
1.174	4.09	Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
1.173	3.46	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1.168	3.45	The Blood of Lambs by Kamal Saleem
1.152	3.65	Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
1.15	4	Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1.148	4.53	Elements by Euclid
1.147	3.86	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.144	3.52	The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
1.141	3.37	The Coming of the Horseclans by Robert Adams
1.136	3.44	Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
1.131	3.83	Federation by Judith Reeves-Stevens
1.129	3.84	Agamemnon; Choephori; Eumenides; The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; and The Suppliants by Aeschylus
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
1.123	4.12	Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
1.121	3.07	Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters
1.12	3.92	Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.119	3.43	Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
1.118	2.99	Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell
1.118	3.4	State of Fear by Michael Crichton
1.118	3.27	Java Software Solutions : Foundations of Program Design by John Lewis
1.117	3.54	Mind-Speaker's Call by Gayle Greeno
1.116	3.18	The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
1.116	3.82	Giants' Star by James P. Hogan
1.114	3.5	The Dark Crystal by A. C. H. Smith
1.113	3.8	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.107	4.14	Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore
1.107	3.45	Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
1.106	3.03	The Captains' Honor by David Dvorkin
1.102	2.72	Ghost Ship by Diane Carey
1.102	3.18	Tales from the New Republic by Peter Schweighofer
1.1	3.67	Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
1.099	3.53	An alien light by Nancy Kress
1.098	3.52	Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns
1.096	3.58	The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
1.096	3.11	Star Trek: The Motion Picture [novelization] by Gene Roddenberry
1.093	3.38	Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
1.093	3.62	On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
1.093	3.71	52, Vol. 4 by Geoff Johns
1.092	3.29	Masks by John Vornholt
1.091	3.29	The Clouds by Aristophanes
1.09	3.77	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.089	3.95	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1.088	3.29	A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
1.087	3.39	The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.086	3.32	The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
1.085	3.78	Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea by Frank Peretti
1.085	3.09	Contamination by John Vornholt
1.084	2.87	Mutiny on the Enterprise by Robert E. Vardeman
1.082	3.42	King John by William Shakespeare
1.08	3.34	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1.08	3.95	The Divine Comedy, Vol. III: Paradise by Dante Alighieri
1.074	3.28	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
1.073	4.09	Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
1.071	3.33	Enemies & Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
1.071	3.83	The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.069	3.74	The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P. Hogan
1.069	3.03	The Eyes of the Beholders by A. C. Crispin
1.068	3.55	Vendetta by Peter David
1.067	3.62	A Separate Peace by John Knowles
1.065	3.7	End Game by Peter David
1.064	3.35	Tales of the Bounty Hunters by Kevin J. Anderson
1.063	3.09	Snow White and the Seven Samurai by Tom Holt
1.062	3.46	Harvest of Stars by Poul Anderson
1.061	4.04	Competent to Counsel by Jay E. Adams
1.061	3.43	When the Tripods Came by John Christopher
1.061	4.13	My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
1.06	3.46	The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
1.06	3.93	The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
1.059	3.85	The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
1.058	3.86	Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
1.057	3.53	A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1.057	3.86	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.057	3.51	Discourse on Method by René Descartes
1.057	3.5	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [novelization] by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.057	3.41	Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
1.055	3.55	Timeline by Michael Crichton
1.053	3.07	The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis
1.053	3.8	The Door in the Dragon's Throat by Frank Peretti
1.052	3.93	Confessions by Saint Augustine

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