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
1.025	3.44	The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
1.024	3.52	The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
0.954	4.08	The Invisible Woman: the Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
0.947	3.79	Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
0.926	3.53	Volpone, or The Fox by Ben Jonson
0.853	3.92	Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
0.834	3.81	The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
0.831	3.96	A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
0.802	3.8	The Dig by John Preston
0.798	3.77	Shakespeare by Michael Wood
0.744	3.62	Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
0.706	3.87	Monster Love by Carol Topolski
0.698	4	The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
0.609	3.74	Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson

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