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
1.074	3.44	Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
0.983	3.02	Introduction to Cataloging and Classification by Arlene G. Taylor
0.977	3.05	The organization of information by Arlene G. Taylor
0.974	4.17	Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss
0.969	4	The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
0.969	3.62	The Pursuit of History by John Tosh
0.966	3.66	How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! by Neil Zawacki
0.94	3.52	Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
0.934	3.84	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
0.932	4.03	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.924	4.05	The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
0.919	3.79	The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
0.878	3.5	Anglo-American Cataloging Rules by Michael Gorman
0.85	4.13	The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0.837	4.43	The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
0.835	4.11	Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas… by Stephen Ambrose
0.826	3.16	Reference and Information Services: An Introduction by Richard E. Bopp
0.823	3.87	Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
0.799	3.85	Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests by Tom Shales
0.798	4.02	Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk
0.786	3.9	The Last 100 Days by John Toland
0.771	4.18	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
0.717	4.03	The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
0.7	4.46	Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
0.686	4.47	Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

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