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
1.2	3.79	Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel : Original text by Charlotte Brontë
1.195	3.83	Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
1.146	3.93	Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.114	3.34	The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
1.085	3.21	Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction by Kay Ann Cassell
1.079	3.81	New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
1.062	3.57	Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
1.061	3.45	This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
1.061	3.68	True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
1.052	3.95	Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
1.012	3.37	French Milk by Lucy Knisley
1	3.89	Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
0.991	3.47	New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer by Bill Maher
0.968	3.89	Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
0.959	4.16	The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
0.954	3.4	Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
0.953	3.79	The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd
0.942	3.74	Young Goodman Brown & Other Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.939	4.35	The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
0.937	4.14	Blankets by Craig Thompson
0.928	3.71	Workbook for Wheelock's Latin by Paul T. Comeau
0.925	4.03	The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by Mo Willems
0.923	4.24	Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Elisabeth Freeman
0.92	3.75	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
0.92	3.46	Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson
0.916	4.08	The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
0.899	4.02	The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
0.898	3.58	All too Human by George Stephanopoulos
0.893	4.3	Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
0.878	3.79	Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
0.878	3.71	Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
0.877	4.02	Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
0.877	4.19	Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
0.875	3.75	Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas
0.864	3.66	The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
0.853	4.29	The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems
0.845	4.05	If I Stay by Gayle Forman
0.842	3.65	The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
0.837	3.32	Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
0.831	3.75	Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America by Garrison Keillor
0.823	3.85	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
0.822	4.04	In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
0.799	4.33	The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
0.798	3.69	Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
0.794	3.96	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
0.794	4.08	Hold Still by Nina LaCour
0.791	3.78	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
0.774	4.19	Persepolis I : The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
0.768	4.35	I Am Invited to a Party! by Mo Willems
0.763	4.02	The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
0.763	4.07	Persepolis II: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
0.752	4.25	The Mitten by Jan Brett
0.74	4.2	Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
0.739	3.8	A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
0.73	3.91	Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni
0.69	3.94	Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
0.677	4.27	Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
0.647	4.42	The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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