Controversial Books for grumpydan

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.323 3.3 The Girl behind the Red Rope by Ted Dekker
1.272 3.05 Bermuda Shorts by James J. Patterson
1.238 3.04 A Once Crowded Sky: A Novel by Tom King
1.199 4.04 In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn
1.181 3.29 An Image of Death by Libby Fischer Hellmann
1.155 3.74 A Cure to Die For: A Medical Thriller by Stephen G. Mitchell
1.135 3.61 The Book of Someday by Dianne Dixon
1.127 3.2 First Activation: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller by D.A. Wearmouth
1.124 2.89 We Eat Our Own: A Novel by Kea Wilson
1.121 3.18 The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault
1.117 3.43 The Biology of Luck by Jacob M. Appel
1.111 3.5 The Dead Ex by Jane Corry
1.107 3.45 The Innocents by David Putnam
1.095 3.38 Don't Look Back by Gregg Hurwitz
1.089 3.21 Tideline by Penny Hancock
1.087 3.47 Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell
1.08 3.58 Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent
1.073 3.23 The Suicide Shop by Jean Teule
1.061 3.74 Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
1.057 3.29 The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir by Ken Harmon
1.052 3.46 Homeward Hound by Rita Mae Brown
1.052 3.45 Le Montespan by Jean Teule
1.047 3.41 Let the Dead Sleep by Heather Graham
1.045 3.2 The Death Relic by Chris Kuzneski
1.045 3.62 Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
1.043 3.65 The Pope of Palm Beach by Tim Dorsey
1.038 3.64 The Troop by Craig Davidson
1.037 3.35 The Secret Crown by Chris Kuzneski
1.03 3.93 The Competition by Marcia Clark
1.03 3.29 Long Black Veil: A Novel by Jennifer Finney Boylan
1.021 3.54 Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf
1.016 4 The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 3 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
1.014 3.29 Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
1.012 3.55 No Way Back by Andrew Gross
1.012 2.83 The Widow's Walk by Robert Barclay
1.008 3.7 Little Heaven: A Novel by Craig Davidson
1.008 3.71 It Happens in the Dark by Carol O'Connell
1.006 3.73 After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
1.003 3.36 The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield
1.002 3.54 Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
0.996 3.09 Plus One by Christopher Noxon
0.992 3.73 Robert B. Parker's Damned if You Do by Michael Brandman
0.989 3.62 A Call From Jersey: A Novel by P.F. Kluge
0.988 3.64 Everything to Lose by Andrew Gross
0.987 3.6 Bring Her Home by David Bell
0.982 3.9 The Pictures by Guy Bolton
0.982 3.69 Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods
0.977 3.28 The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon
0.977 3.51 The Absence of Mercy: A Novel by John Burley
0.977 3.49 Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living by Elizabeth Willard Thames
0.972 3.42 Above by Isla Morley
0.97 3.75 The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
0.968 3.91 The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz
0.967 3.5 Friday's Harbor by Diane Hammond
0.966 3.69 The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
0.965 3.61 Border Son by Samuel Parker
0.965 3.6 Feared by Lisa Scottoline
0.965 3.58 Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
0.963 3.77 Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay
0.963 3.37 The Last Girl by Joe Hart
0.962 3.5 Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik
0.952 3.61 The Dead Play On by Heather Graham
0.952 3.55 The Travelers by Chris Pavone
0.952 3.62 The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
0.949 3.71 When I'm Gone: A Novel by Emily Bleeker
0.944 3.68 Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
0.943 3.09 The Devil You Know by Elisabeth De Mariaffi
0.943 3.59 Devil's Bridge by Linda Fairstein
0.942 3.79 Enigma by Catherine Coulter
0.941 3.42 The After House by Michael Phillip Cash
0.94 3.85 Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
0.934 3.42 Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner
0.932 3.46 Hunt the Wolf by Don Mann
0.928 3.53 No Bad Deed by Heather Chavez
0.928 3.66 Under My Skin by Lisa Unger
0.927 3.61 The Murderer's Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman
0.927 3.83 The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
0.927 3.68 The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
0.926 3.81 Good Behavior by Blake Crouch
0.923 3.51 Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
0.922 3.62 The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry
0.92 3.59 Double Blind by Iris Johansen
0.918 3.54 The Little French Bistro by Nina George
0.915 3.62 In the Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
0.914 3.8 Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston
0.913 3.58 Actress by Anne Enright
0.909 3.81 An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
0.907 3.72 The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
0.906 3.79 Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
0.903 3.55 Six Years by Harlan Coben
0.903 3.82 Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark
0.901 3.68 The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman
0.901 3.68 Montauk: A Novel by Nicola Harrison
0.9 4.15 The Night Window by Dean Koontz
0.896 3.62 Watching Edie by Camilla Way
0.894 3.98 The Wealthy Barber by David Barr Chilton
0.891 3.94 Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
0.89 3.54 Two Nights by Kathy Reichs
0.89 3.29 Supper Club by Lara Williams
0.888 3.75 Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne
0.887 3.75 Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
0.885 3.06 Inherit the Dead by Lee Child
0.883 3.66 The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy
0.88 3.13 Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline
0.878 3.65 Personal by Lee Child
0.877 3.65 One of Us by Tawni O'Dell
0.876 3.59 Body Work by Sara Paretsky
0.875 3.5 A New York Christmas by Anne Perry
0.875 3.93 Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
0.874 3.6 The Forgotten Girl by David Bell
0.874 3.39 One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis
0.872 3.49 A Measure of Darkness: A Novel by Jonathan Kellerman
0.872 4.06 Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez
0.871 3.77 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
0.869 3.23 The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
0.869 4.13 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
0.868 3.87 Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner
0.867 3.44 Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason
0.867 3.79 End Game by David Baldacci
0.866 3.59 Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson
0.866 3.99 Here and Gone by Haylen Beck
0.864 3.96 Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
0.862 3.85 The Chase by Janet Evanovich
0.862 3.81 The City by Dean Koontz
0.861 3.91 The Renegades by Tom Young
0.858 3.61 Help for the Haunted by John Searles
0.857 3.61 Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
0.856 3.42 Game by Anders De la Motte
0.855 3.38 Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
0.855 3.88 The Forgotten by Heather Graham
0.855 3.6 The German House by Annette Hess
0.853 3.96 Home by Harlan Coben
0.853 3.3 It All Falls Down by Sheena Kamal
0.853 3.73 Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag
0.852 4.07 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
0.85 3.7 Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found by Rebecca Alexander
0.849 4.15 The Bone Tree by Greg Iles
0.846 4.06 The Happy Camper by Melody Carlson
0.84 4.11 The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor
0.837 3.87 In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
0.837 3.51 Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
0.836 3.93 The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz
0.836 3.85 If You Knew Her: A Novel by Emily Elgar
0.836 3.3 The Reckoning by Howard Owen
0.836 3.82 The World on Either Side by Diane Terrana
0.836 3.37 Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker
0.834 4.05 The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
0.834 3.8 The Last Town by Blake Crouch
0.833 3.78 Far From True by Linwood Barclay
0.833 3.49 If You Were Here by Alafair Burke
0.83 3.6 Terminal City by Linda Fairstein
0.829 3.69 Bob's Burgers, Volume 1 by Chad Brewster
0.827 3.98 The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay
0.827 3.83 The God's Eye View by Barry Eisler
0.825 3.67 Night School by Lee Child
0.823 3.39 Compound Fractures by Stephen White
0.823 3.9 Joyland by Stephen King
0.82 4.03 A Single Breath by Lucy Clarke
0.819 3.63 The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice
0.819 3.75 Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
0.818 3.97 Runner by Patrick Lee
0.817 3.62 The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
0.814 3.62 Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman
0.814 3.39 Dakota by Gwen Florio
0.813 3.85 The Deep Zone: A Novel by James M. Tabor
0.813 3.58 Hotwire by Alex Kava
0.813 4.02 Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
0.812 3.85 The Execution by Dick Wolf
0.81 3.9 The Scam by Janet Evanovich
0.81 3.82 Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs
0.809 3.6 Sundance: A Novel by David Fuller
0.808 3.61 The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
0.806 3.85 The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
0.803 3.41 The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
0.803 3.46 Roosevelt's Beast by Louis Bayard
0.803 3.84 Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo
0.802 3.91 Second Watch by J. A. Jance
0.801 3.68 Odd Child Out by Gilly McMillan
0.801 4.16 Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
0.8 3.42 The Drifter: A Novel by Christine Lennon
0.799 3.76 The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger
0.799 3.26 The New World: A Novel by Andrew Motion
0.798 3.3 The Empty Bed by Nina Sadowsky
0.796 4.12 Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever [graphic novel] by Harlan Ellison
0.796 3.82 The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain
0.794 4.03 The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag
0.793 3.59 Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy
0.791 3.98 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
0.788 3.9 Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs
0.787 3.65 The Drop by Dennis Lehane
0.787 3.65 The Shadow Tracer by Meg Gardiner
0.786 4.15 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
0.784 3.61 Too Close to Home: A Novel (Paul McGrath) by Andrew Grant
0.783 4.02 Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
0.782 3.83 The Job by Janet Evanovich
0.78 4.05 The Dirty South by John Connolly
0.778 3.91 Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel by Carter Wilson
0.778 3.85 Wayward by Blake Crouch
0.777 3.82 The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
0.777 3.38 The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl
0.776 3.64 The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter
0.776 4.09 Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
0.772 3.86 The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer
0.766 3.79 The Children Act by Ian McEwan
0.765 4.08 Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
0.764 4.02 Compulsion by Allison Brennan
0.763 4.06 Angels Burning by Tawni O'Dell
0.763 3.54 The Joshua Stone by James Barney
0.761 3.5 Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth
0.76 4.3 Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass
0.758 3.65 Keep You Close by Karen Cleveland
0.758 4.02 A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition by Lee Mendelson
0.758 3.73 The Life She Wants by Robyn Carr
0.756 4.02 The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor
0.754 3.91 The Private Eye: Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan
0.751 3.45 Buzz by Anders De la Motte
0.746 4 The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
0.745 4.02 Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
0.744 4 Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman
0.743 4.18 Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz
0.743 3.78 The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
0.74 3.37 The Playground by Jane Shemilt
0.736 3.32 Lighthouse Island by Paulette Jiles
0.733 3.39 The Killer's Art by Mari Jungstedt
0.732 3.63 Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman
0.731 3.88 Under Currents by Nora Roberts
0.724 3.98 Loonies by Gregory Bastianelli
0.723 3.93 Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark
0.722 3.67 After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman
0.722 4.18 Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
0.719 3.93 The Sentry by Robert Crais
0.715 3.92 Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve
0.711 3.61 Blood Ties by Barbara Fradkin
0.71 3.58 Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn by Ace Atkins
0.708 3.09 Strange Bird by Anna Jansson
0.707 3.94 Out of Range by Hank Steinberg
0.703 3.72 The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
0.703 3.95 Escape Clause by John Sandford
0.702 3.98 The Never-Open Desert Diner: A Novel by James Anderson
0.7 3.65 Moving Target by J. A. Jance
0.698 3.52 The Fixer by Joseph Finder
0.698 3.9 The Fall by John Lescroart
0.697 3.91 Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
0.697 3.91 Remains of Innocence by J. A. Jance
0.694 3.56 Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life Of Oliver Queen by Benjamin Percy
0.691 3.94 The Fade Out Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker
0.69 3.82 Black Fridays by Michael Sears
0.689 3.76 Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan
0.688 3.78 When the Thrill Is Gone by Walter Mosley
0.686 3.94 Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
0.683 3.97 Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler
0.681 4.11 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
0.679 3.4 Bricking It by Nick Spalding
0.671 3.74 Little Green by Walter Mosley
0.66 3.95 My Name Is Venus Black by Heather Lloyd
0.657 3.08 Something About Sophie: A Novel (P.S.) by Mary Kay McComas
0.655 4.03 The Banks of Certain Rivers by Jon Harrison
0.653 4.05 No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor
0.648 3.89 Sunday Silence by Nicci French
0.648 3.74 Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
0.638 3.89 The Last Dead Girl by Harry Dolan
0.625 3.57 Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
0.622 3.53 Razor's Edge by Martha Wells
0.602 4.3 Don't Talk to Strangers by Amanda Kyle Williams
0.596 3.67 Fangs Out by David Freed
0.533 3.67 Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout
0.504 3.92 Ain't She a Peach by Molly Harper
0.502 3.99 Breach of Trust by David Ellis