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
1.21	3.24	Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
1.157	3.12	The Road to Mars by Eric Idle
1.154	3.2	The Architecture of Desire by Mary Gentle
1.153	3.48	The Tank Lords by David Drake
1.132	3.6	Stand and Deliver by Adam Ant
1.122	3.56	The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs
1.117	3.5	Underground London: travels beneath the city streets by Stephen Smith
1.102	3.5	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
1.097	3.29	Grunts! by Mary Gentle
1.094	3.7	Once Burned by Peter David
1.085	3.3	1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
1.078	3.67	The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles
1.071	3.83	The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.066	4.07	Human Nature by Paul Cornell
1.065	3.7	End Game by Peter David
1.062	3.92	Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph
1.044	3.68	The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Star Wars) by Bill Smith
1.044	3.07	Venusian Lullaby (Dr Who : the Missing Adventures) by Paul Leonard
1.042	3.71	The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
1.042	3.63	Thieves' World by Robert Asprin
1.037	2.76	Made of Steel by Terrance Dicks
1.035	3.63	Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual by Rick Sternbach
1.03	3.21	The Taking of Planet 5 by Mark Clapham
1.022	3.89	The Broken God by David Zindell
1.022	3.85	The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
1.018	3.66	East of Ealing by Robert Rankin
1.015	3.63	Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
1.014	3.48	Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore
1.011	3.48	World War Hulk by Greg Pak
1.011	3.32	Transit by Ben Aaronovitch
1.007	3.54	Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Volume 3 by Ken Akamatsu
1.007	3.42	Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
1.007	3.96	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.006	3.45	The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards
0.994	3.54	Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed by Jakob Nielsen
0.991	3.4	Death's Domain: A Discworld Mapp by Terry Pratchett
0.988	3.44	The Suburban Book of the Dead: Armageddon 3 - The Remake by Robert Rankin
0.988	3.73	The Brentford Triangle by Robert Rankin
0.987	4.05	Father Time by Lance Parkin
0.987	3.62	Iron Council by China Miéville
0.986	3.58	Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay
0.986	3.92	Philip's Atlas of World History by Patrick K. O'Brien
0.985	3.65	The Stone Rose by Jac Rayner
0.981	4.16	Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
0.977	3.61	Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Volume 2 by Ken Akamatsu
0.976	3.4	A Tourist Guide to Lancre: A Discworld Mapp by Terry Pratchett
0.975	3.38	The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
0.974	3.67	The Bridge by Iain Banks
0.974	3.38	Cat's Cradle: Warhead by Andrew Cartmel
0.974	3.65	House of Cards by Peter David
0.973	3.3	Dark Tide II: Ruin by Michael A. Stackpole
0.973	3.54	Armageddon: The Musical by Robert Rankin
0.972	3.64	A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day
0.971	3.3	Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson
0.97	3.2	Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial by James Luceno
0.969	3.85	Martyr by Peter David
0.967	3.65	The Essential Guide to Characters (Star Wars) by Andy Mangels
0.967	3.82	Love and War by Paul Cornell
0.965	3.71	The Two-Front War by Peter David
0.965	3.52	Reading the Vampire Slayer by Roz Kaveney
0.964	3.14	The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank
0.963	3.88	God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
0.962	4.24	The City of the Dead by Lloyd Rose
0.962	3.65	The Discworld Mapp by Terry Pratchett
0.96	3.65	Thieves' World: Aftermath by Robert Asprin
0.96	3.36	They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie by Robert Rankin
0.959	4.11	Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
0.957	3.86	Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
0.956	3.76	The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett
0.955	3.4	The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides
0.955	3.69	The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: Being a concise and possibly even accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld by Terry Pratchett
0.954	3.68	The Gallifrey Chronciles by Lance Parkin
0.952	3.84	One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
0.951	3.81	Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
0.951	3.26	And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer
0.95	3.76	Into the Void by Peter David
0.95	3.69	Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
0.95	3.62	Catastrophe by David Keys
0.949	3.49	Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. Rolleston
0.947	3.81	Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
0.946	3.54	The Scarlet Empress by Paul Magrs
0.946	4.12	Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
0.946	3.47	The Brentford Chainstore Massacre by Robert Rankin
0.945	3.3	Edge of Victory II: Rebirth by Greg Keyes
0.943	3.81	Restoration by Peter David
0.942	4.02	The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.941	3.57	Last Orders by Graham Swift
0.94	3.52	Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
0.938	4.17	Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
0.937	4.16	Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
0.937	3.45	Stonehenge: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell
0.936	3.82	Father Brown: Selected Stories by G. K. Chesterton
0.936	3.7	The Turing Test by Paul Leonard
0.936	3.42	How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
0.936	3.77	The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
0.936	3.46	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 3 Part 1: Century: 1910 by Alan Moore
0.934	3.91	Ranma 1/2, Volume 01 by Rumiko Takahashi
0.934	3.75	The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams
0.933	3.67	The Coffee Trader by David Liss
0.932	4.16	John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell by Garth Ennis

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