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
1.094	3.76	The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.089	3.48	The Sea by John Banville
1.026	3.54	Tokyo Fiancée by Amélie Nothomb
1.018	3.91	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
0.998	4.01	Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
0.975	3.9	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
0.972	3.6	Mao II by Don DeLillo
0.956	3.71	Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson
0.906	3.71	The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore
0.905	3.86	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
0.904	4.06	The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.893	4.02	Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.893	4.29	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.885	3.84	A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0.874	3.74	Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
0.866	3.61	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
0.849	3.58	The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
0.822	3.87	The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
0.82	4.46	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.813	4.24	When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
0.793	4.09	Any Human Heart by William Boyd
0.77	4.4	Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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