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
1.048	3.92	A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation by Gustavo Gutierrez
1.035	4.03	Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
1.035	3.74	The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx
1.006	3.97	Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman by Richard M. Stallman
0.976	3.89	Voices of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.971	4.16	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
0.958	3.99	Common Sense by Thomas Paine
0.945	4.03	Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
0.929	4.07	Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
0.903	4.19	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
0.9	3.78	The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
0.895	4.04	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
0.893	4.02	Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.889	3.68	The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Che Guevara
0.886	4.25	A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
0.883	4.23	Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
0.882	4.25	Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
0.838	4.11	Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
0.836	4.27	1984 by George Orwell
0.801	4.09	Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
0.795	4.16	The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
0.758	4.21	Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
0.743	4.24	Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
0.697	4.16	Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
0.692	3.97	Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig

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