Controversial Books for skylightbooks

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
1.216 3.9 T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Peter Lamborn Wilson
1.185 3.38 Adverbs by Daniel Handler
1.127 4.06 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.102 3.31 A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks (Nation Books) by Clifford D. Conner
1.1 3.34 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
1.091 3.9 The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
1.087 3.74 The Other Side by István Bányai
1.084 4.23 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1.055 3.23 The Accidental by Ali Smith
1.054 3.62 Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
1.049 3.89 Underworld by Don DeLillo
1.037 3.74 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.032 3.98 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.019 3.9 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
1.018 3.78 Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler
1.018 3.63 Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit by Miles Corwin
1.014 3.78 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.013 4.09 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.011 3.78 Feed by M. T. Anderson
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
0.994 3.14 Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson
0.98 3.58 Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan
0.977 3.55 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
0.964 3.8 The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury
0.958 3.71 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
0.955 3.96 Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
0.953 3.88 The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
0.947 4.1 Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell
0.936 3.77 Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
0.935 3.98 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
0.923 3.88 Ask the Dust by John Fante
0.92 4.23 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
0.919 4.18 The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
0.915 3.87 Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
0.893 4.03 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
0.89 4.08 The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
0.887 3.55 Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
0.884 3.78 Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
0.874 3.22 The Position by Meg Wolitzer
0.87 3.78 Jelly Roll by Kevin Young
0.869 3.96 Powers Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis
0.863 3.77 Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
0.856 3.82 The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
0.855 3.62 Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels by David Markson
0.853 3.85 Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
0.853 4.14 Toothpaste for Dinner: Hipsters, Hamsters and Other Pressing Issues by Drew
0.852 3.98 On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See
0.851 3.99 The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
0.845 3.83 A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
0.833 4.17 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
0.818 4.27 Banksy: Wall and Piece by Banksy
0.81 3.88 Cometbus #42: Double Duce by Aaron Cometbus
0.807 3.46 My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
0.804 3.82 Beige by Cecil Castellucci
0.789 4.09 Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
0.77 3.84 Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell
0.769 3.8 I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters by Rabih Alameddine
0.759 3.81 Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
0.749 4.47 And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
0.746 3.97 Dead Boys: Stories by Richard Lange
0.709 3.88 Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade
0.674 4.4 "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate by Bob Graham
0.672 4.33 Perla La Loca (Love and Rockets) by Jaime Hernandez
0.656 3.95 Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman
0.648 4.37 Acme Novelty Library, Issue 17 by Chris Ware
0.623 4.6 The Red Tree by Shaun Tan