Controversial Books for Insregal

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
1.326 3.2 Cage of Bones by Tania Carver
1.229 3.39 Tales from the Town of Widows: A Novel by James Cañón
1.164 3.67 The Shepherd by Ethan Cross
1.158 3.76 Hell or High Water by Joy Castro
1.097 3.39 White as Silence, Red as Song by Alessandro D'Avenia
1.078 2.75 Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
1.068 3.13 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
1.006 3.53 The Skull of Truth by Bruce Coville
0.998 3.62 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
0.975 3.46 Isle of Joy by Don Winslow
0.971 3.48 No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns
0.968 3.25 East Side Story: A Novel by Louis Auchincloss
0.958 3.73 Spoor by Deon Meyer
0.955 3.46 The Monster's Ring by Bruce Coville
0.952 3.73 The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
0.937 3.76 What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
0.935 3.46 The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo
0.928 4.13 The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis
0.916 3.97 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
0.912 3.72 No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen
0.911 3.95 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
0.909 3.96 The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
0.907 3.45 Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
0.902 3.91 The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
0.898 3.92 Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
0.898 3.57 Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro
0.898 3.75 The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
0.897 3.15 Now You See Her by Joy Fielding
0.896 3.29 What Dark Clouds Hide by Anne Holt
0.895 4.14 Frog and the Birdsong by Max Velthuijs
0.894 3.6 The Snow Day by Komako Sakai
0.893 3.39 The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
0.892 3.81 No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan
0.891 3.73 The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason
0.891 3.66 The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
0.885 3.73 Erntedank by Volker Klüpfel
0.88 3.75 The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer
0.876 3.48 My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir by Zarah Ghahramani
0.874 3.91 Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
0.873 3.97 Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
0.869 3.87 House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser
0.867 3.65 Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
0.862 3.59 The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswani
0.861 3.65 The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
0.859 3.49 The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
0.85 3.69 The Cats of Copenhagen by James Joyce
0.847 3.95 Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier
0.847 3.92 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
0.846 4.06 No Place to Run by Maya Banks
0.839 4.4 The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
0.831 3.19 The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
0.829 4.02 Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas
0.827 3.64 The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton
0.823 3.75 The Last Life by Claire Messud
0.822 3.6 Juliet Dove, Queen of Love by Bruce Coville
0.821 3.4 Il nipote del Negus by Andrea Camilleri
0.82 3.89 The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach
0.819 3.84 Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
0.819 3.31 Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves by Crystal Renn
0.818 3.84 61 Hours by Lee Child
0.811 4.3 The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad
0.802 3.56 The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
0.801 3.86 The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4) by Alexander McCall Smith
0.8 3.88 The Hueys in The New Sweater by Oliver Jeffers
0.799 3.83 Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
0.798 4.12 Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
0.797 3.93 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
0.795 4.09 The Death Sculptor by Chris Carter
0.795 3.85 The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen
0.794 3.93 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
0.793 3.85 The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
0.781 3.68 A Woman among Warlords : The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalaï Joya
0.781 4.06 The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
0.78 4.03 Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
0.776 3.65 In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
0.764 3.89 If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr
0.764 4.36 Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
0.764 3.64 The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland
0.762 3.75 Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale
0.758 3.69 Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
0.758 4.22 Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
0.757 3.66 Frog in Love by Max Velthuijs
0.756 4 Frog is Frog by Max Velthuijs
0.749 3.86 The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
0.745 3.83 The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
0.743 3.98 The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
0.735 3.69 The Pusher by Ed McBain
0.735 4.19 Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
0.733 3.95 Crime by Ferdinand von Schirach
0.731 3.71 In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
0.723 3.46 The Forgotten Dead by Tove Alsterdal
0.718 3.92 Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus
0.715 3.95 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
0.71 3.73 The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris
0.702 3.72 The Beggar's Opera by Peggy Blair
0.702 3.4 Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike B. Görtemaker
0.692 3.71 The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel by Ian Hamilton
0.687 3.6 Murder on Brittany Shores by Jean-Luc Bannalec
0.672 3.57 More Bitter Than Death by Camilla Grebe
0.663 3.62 The Disciple of Las Vegas by Ian Hamilton
0.624 3.61 Blinde Vögel by Ursula Poznanski
0.619 4.42 Erika's Story by Ruth Vander Zee
0.538 4.04 Oliver by Birgitta Sif
0.498 3.54 Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter