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
RatingTitle
1.783.33The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
1.4923.49Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
1.4611.87The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
1.3142.71Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past by Erich von Däniken
1.3113.36See, I Told You So by Rush Limbaugh
1.2993.29Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
1.2883.16The Living Bible by Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor
1.2713.51The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
1.2653.7The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications by John C. Whitcomb
1.2523.04Dispensationalism by Charles Ryrie
1.2493.5The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein
1.2233.73Revolution in World Missions by K. P. Yohannan
1.2113.68Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V. I. Lenin
1.2053.47The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush Limbaugh
1.1953.16Evidence That Demands A Verdict Vol. 2 by Josh McDowell
1.1864.06The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork
1.184.1The Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV) by Bible
1.1593.38Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner
1.1364.06The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
1.1243.59J.B.: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish
1.1093.6Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
1.1063.08The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1.13.63The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
1.093.52Prophet by Frank Peretti
1.0754.05The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version (RSV) by RSV
1.0673.85The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
1.0663.84Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
1.0614.04Competent to Counsel by Jay E. Adams
1.0614.13My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
1.0543.81The Trail of the Fox by David John Cawdell Irving
1.0523.93Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.053.5Angels by Billy Graham
1.0483.92This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
1.0483.45Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
1.0473.58The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
1.0424.1Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot
1.0413.33The Bible as History by Werner Keller
1.044.13The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
1.033.96Jews, God, and History: 2nd Edition by Max I. Dimont
1.033.84The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson
1.0273.92Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life by Maxwell Maltz
1.0243.9The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1.0233.95When God Whispers Your Name by Max Lucado
1.0183.74The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.0173.97How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
1.0153.7Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.0134Sugar Blues by William Dufty
1.0123.48The World's Last Mysteries by Reader's Digest
1.014The Quotable Lewis by H. Wayne Martindale
1.0094.15With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray
1.0093.82A Christian Manifesto by Francis A. Schaeffer
1.0094.01Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul Johnson
1.0084Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
1.0064.01City Of God by Augustine of Hippo
1.0063.58Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little
1.0053.98Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage by Lisa Beamer
1.0023.81More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
0.9993.61The Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Géza Vermes
0.9993.83Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
0.9973.73Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
0.9944.04The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by Frederick Fyvie Bruce
0.9933.84The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
0.9883.82L'Abri by Edith Schaeffer
0.9883.29Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays by A. C. Cawley
0.9874.04Paradise Lost by John Milton
0.9864.22Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
0.9843.49Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright
0.9833.85A History of Christianity, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1500 (Revised) by Kenneth Scott Latourette
0.9823.91Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
0.9794.09Audition by Michael Shurtleff
0.9793.61The History of the Church by Eusebius
0.9784.01Piercing The Darkness by Frank Peretti
0.9753.67The Calvary Road by Roy Hession
0.973.21Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the Christian Faith by Josh McDowell
0.9673.98The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer
0.9653.85A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
0.9633.92Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
0.9593.99The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin
0.9563.59Halley's Bible Handbook by Henry H. Halley
0.9544.04The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
0.9524.34Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
0.9513.79The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne
0.9513.67The Ugly American by William J. Lederer
0.9493.68The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism by C. S. Lewis
0.9484.06Free to choose : a personal statement by Milton Friedman
0.9484.04The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips
0.9423.97The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest
0.9374.22The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
0.9354.24Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Philip Yancey
0.9344.1Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
0.9343.14The Passover Plot by Hugh J. Schonfield
0.9343.66Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) by Michael Wex
0.9334.01Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As a Way of Life by Rebecca Manley Pippert
0.934.35Witness by Whittaker Chambers
0.9284.1The Divine Comedy, Vol. I: Hell by Dante Alighieri
0.9273.63Inside Out by Larry Crabb
0.9273.98Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott
0.9234.1The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
0.924.08The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
0.9163.71The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
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