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
1.203	3.61	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.067	3.92	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.063	3.6	Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
1.057	3.87	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.03	3.73	PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
1.021	3.91	House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
1.006	3.65	La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas
0.998	4.01	Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
0.978	3.97	Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier
0.96	3.96	Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
0.958	4.02	The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
0.936	3.5	Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann
0.926	4.01	On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran
0.915	3.78	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
0.913	3.87	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
0.912	4.25	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.856	4.09	The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
0.833	3.48	The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
0.832	3.98	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
0.804	3.93	Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas

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