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
1.41	3.2	The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
1.327	3.36	Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
1.309	3.09	Shadow Moon by Chris Claremont
1.299	3.08	The Still by David Feintuch
1.298	3.59	The Standing Dead by Ricardo Pinto
1.283	3.56	Blood and Honor by Simon R. Green
1.283	3.07	Chosen by Nancy Holder
1.281	3.43	Prophecy by Sharon Green
1.264	3.35	Competitions by Sharon Green
1.247	3.68	Vampire Junction by S.P. Somtow
1.247	3.32	Challenges by Sharon Green
1.244	4.06	Cygnet by Patricia A. McKillip
1.208	3.1	Prince of Demons by Mickey Zucker Reichert
1.205	3.71	Wizard of the Pigeons by Robin Hobb
1.204	3.8	Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
1.201	3.56	Futureland by Walter Mosley
1.199	3.34	Voices of Hope by David Feintuch
1.196	3.63	Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
1.192	3.29	Betrayals by Sharon Green
1.189	3.81	Goblins in the Castle (Minstrel Book) by Bruce Coville
1.177	3.43	The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
1.174	3.45	The Empire Strikes Back by Donald F. Glut
1.171	3.41	Light by M. John Harrison
1.17	3.48	The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto
1.166	3.05	Beyond Ragnarok by Mickey Zucker Reichert
1.159	3.7	The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) by Doris Lessing
1.152	3.65	Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
1.149	3.18	Shroud of Shadow by Gael Baudino
1.14	3.22	A Song in Stone (Wizards of the Coast Discovery Novels) by Walter H. Hunt
1.136	3.38	Runemarks by Joanne Harris
1.135	3.64	I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
1.134	3.75	A Diversity of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey
1.133	3.52	The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
1.128	3.13	Dead on My Feet (The Halflife Chronicles) by Wm. Mark Simmons
1.122	3.5	Superluminal by Vonda N. McIntyre
1.122	3.46	The Western Wizard by Mickey Zucker Reichert
1.112	3.69	Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
1.112	3.34	The Ghost Sister by Liz Williams
1.112	3.31	The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert
1.11	4.07	Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish
1.103	3.39	Intrigues by Sharon Green
1.101	3.85	Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
1.099	3.53	An alien light by Nancy Kress
1.099	3.35	A Scattering of Jades by Alexander C. Irvine
1.094	3.76	The Throme of the Erril of Sherill by Patricia A. McKillip
1.092	3.55	The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
1.091	3.5	Shadow Star by Chris Claremont
1.084	3.74	Souls In The Great Machine by Sean McMullen
1.081	3.87	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.08	3.75	The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
1.079	3.6	A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner
1.077	3.39	Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin
1.076	3.54	Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. by Robert Asprin
1.076	3.63	Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
1.074	3.41	Shadows of Ecstasy by Charles Williams
1.074	3.72	The Waterborn by J. Gregory Keyes
1.071	3.83	The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.07	3.5	Child of Thunder by Mickey Zucker Reichert
1.069	3.31	The Summer Country by James A. Hetley
1.068	3.53	Strands of Sunlight by Gael Baudino
1.064	3.88	Dictionary of the Khazars, Female Edition by Milorad Pavić
1.064	3.57	Knight of the Demon Queen by Barbara Hambly
1.064	3.36	Fallen Angels by Larry Niven
1.063	3.93	The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
1.062	4.13	The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
1.062	3.42	Shadow Dawn by Chris Claremont
1.061	3.25	Destination: Void by Frank Herbert
1.061	3.82	Fortress of Dragons by C. J. Cherryh
1.06	3.71	Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund
1.058	3.86	Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
1.057	3.53	A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
1.054	3.54	The Malacia Tapestry by Brian Aldiss
1.053	3.6	Prisoner's Hope by David Feintuch
1.053	3.68	The Monsters of Morley Manor: A Madcap Adventure by Bruce Coville
1.052	3.75	Starmind by Spider Robinson
1.052	3.66	Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
1.05	3.92	Silverlock by John Myers Myers
1.05	3.85	The Adept by Katherine Kurtz
1.049	3.41	A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski
1.049	3.61	Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
1.048	3.89	Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks
1.046	4.05	The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney
1.044	3.53	Nostradamus Ate My Hamster by Robert Rankin
1.042	3.75	Myst: The Book of Ti'ana by Rand Miller
1.04	3.49	The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt
1.038	3.73	Burndive by Karin Lowachee
1.035	3.54	Challenger's Hope by David Feintuch
1.034	3.79	Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist
1.034	3.66	Split Infinity by Piers Anthony
1.034	3.45	The Last of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
1.033	3.92	Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
1.032	3.64	Flatterland by Ian Stewart
1.031	3.6	Knight Life by Peter David
1.03	3.55	Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
1.03	3.44	Deceptions by Sharon Green
1.03	3.7	Tigerheart by Peter David
1.03	3.8	Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.029	3.62	The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner
1.029	3.84	The Owl Service by Alan Garner
1.029	3.8	That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis

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