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.

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Deviation
RatingTitle
1.5173.11Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation by Lon Milo DuQuette
1.4864.45Liber Aleph Vel Cxi: The Book of Wisdom or Folly (The Equinox) by Aleister Crowley
1.4611.87The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
1.3643.65Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States by Albert Pike
1.3513.84The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon by Pseudo Solomon
1.2653.5The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
1.2493.79Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
1.2463.36Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
1.1874.3The Holy Bible: New International Version (NIV) by Bible
1.1863.53Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
1.1843.28The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasonry, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus by Christopher Knight
1.1823.97Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
1.1823.77Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.1783.53The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.1733.57Ink: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
1.1653.52Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
1.1623.4Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
1.1554.12Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo DuQuette
1.1473.86Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.1433.69Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.1423.81The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
1.1293.7The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by James R. Sutherland
1.1293.92The Lesser Key of Solomon by Aleister Crowley
1.1183.68The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
1.1183.87T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Peter Lamborn Wilson
1.1143.81Blood Games by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.1143.77Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
1.1133.61Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man
1.1113.69The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Anonymous
1.1083.52Appetite for Life by Noël Riley Fitch
1.1063.62Journey To Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
1.1033.64Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.0993.71On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.0983.61Roget's Pocket Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
1.0983.98Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson
1.0974.12My Life With the Spirits by Lon Milo DuQuette
1.0963.53Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
1.0963.93Ishmael: An adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
1.0943.45Moonchild by Aleister Crowley
1.0913.94In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
1.0913.58The teachings of don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
1.093.87Book of Thoth A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Equinox Volume III, No. V by Aleister Crowley
1.0843.3The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites, and Its Mysteries by Éliphas Lévi
1.0833.45Traditional Knitting Patterns from Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy by James Norbury
1.0823.74Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson
1.0823.68In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters
1.0783.17The Kabbalah: Essential Texts From the Zohar by Simeon bar Yochai
1.0763.91Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic by Phyllis Curott
1.0743.76Transcendental Magic by Éliphas Lévi
1.0743.64A Candle for d'Artagnan by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.0733.98The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
1.0713.83The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.0693.48Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
1.0683.74The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
1.0683.53Sendmail by Bryan Costales
1.0653.43The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
1.0653.92Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning by Patrick Sebranek
1.0633.7Robert's Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
1.0623.27Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice
1.0613.33On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.063.67Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
1.0583.63Arctic Lace: Knitting Projects and Stories Inspired by Alaska's Native Knitters by Donna Druchunas
1.0573.71Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday
1.0573.86Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.0533.64City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison
1.0523.63Hôtel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.053.82The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1.0493.79To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
1.0483.95Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
1.0483.45Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
1.0464.01The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
1.0453.45On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.0434.08Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.0433.54The Copenhagen Connection by Elizabeth Peters
1.0423.33Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan
1.0423.64Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
1.0383.64Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
1.0363.84The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
1.0363.98Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
1.0363.48Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
1.0353.93Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
1.0343.67The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
1.0343.91Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self by Carl Jung
1.0343.4Pandora by Anne Rice
1.0333.88Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.0333.56The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
1.0323.79Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
1.0313.4The University of Chicago Spanish - English English - Spanish Dictionary by Carlos Castillo
1.033.85Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
1.033.93The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages by Paul Foster Case
1.033.85The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
1.0263.78HTML&XHTML by Chuck Musciano
1.0263.48I Ching, Book of Changes by James Legge
1.0253.96Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.0244Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
1.0243.47Firmin by Sam Savage
1.0224.04An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
1.0213.33The Pictorial Key to the tarot by Arthur Edward Waite
1.0183.85Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
1.0173.97How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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