Controversial Books for JEM1244

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
1.424 2.94 Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
1.337 3.43 The Shack by William P. Young
1.317 3.72 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.264 3.08 Coming Out by Danielle Steel
1.234 3.34 The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
1.225 3.19 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
1.22 3.76 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
1.16 3.8 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.14 3.4 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling
1.138 3.54 The Awakening / The Struggle by L. J. Smith
1.125 3.43 The Quickie by James Patterson
1.121 3.48 Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
1.119 3.58 Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
1.117 3.77 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
1.112 3.38 Hannibal by Thomas Harris
1.1 3.38 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.097 3.67 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
1.094 3.54 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
1.075 3.68 Winners by Danielle Steel
1.074 3.85 A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
1.07 3.59 Lisey's Story by Stephen King
1.069 3.85 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.066 3.69 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.064 3.85 The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
1.063 3.56 The Cottage by Danielle Steel
1.06 3.63 Echoes by Danielle Steel
1.055 3.38 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
1.053 3.61 Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
1.038 3.7 Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.033 3.8 The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
1.029 4.19 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1.028 3.33 Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
1.02 3.15 Marrying Mom by Olivia Goldsmith
1.014 3.45 Cell by Stephen King
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.009 3.69 The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.003 3.55 Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
1.003 3.46 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
1.002 3.82 The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
1.001 3.45 Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel
1 3.5 Accidental Heroes: A Novel by Danielle Steel
1 3.79 The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd
0.999 3.9 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
0.999 3.37 The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares
0.998 3.37 The Circle by Dave Eggers
0.998 3.96 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.75 Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark
0.997 3.49 H.R.H. by Danielle Steel
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.995 3.46 The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
0.99 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.986 3.75 The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
0.985 3.32 Roadwork by Stephen King
0.985 4.01 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
0.983 3.7 Bag of Bones by Stephen King
0.983 3.76 My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
0.978 3.7 Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
0.977 3.99 The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
0.971 3.5 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
0.969 3.55 Christine by Stephen King
0.969 3.75 The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
0.967 3.73 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
0.967 4.03 Once We Were Brothers by Richard H. Balson
0.965 3.67 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
0.965 3.54 No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
0.963 3.51 The Lost World by Michael Crichton
0.962 3.77 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
0.962 3.86 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0.96 3.68 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
0.959 3.88 Paper Towns by John Green
0.959 3.88 If I Stay by Gayle Forman
0.954 3.87 The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
0.953 3.82 Under the Dome by Stephen King
0.952 3.92 The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon
0.952 3.78 Dawn by Élie Wiesel
0.951 4.08 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
0.951 3.7 The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd
0.95 3.53 The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackermann
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.948 3.79 The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
0.948 4.04 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
0.948 3.83 A Time to Kill by John Grisham
0.947 3.63 Cross by James Patterson
0.938 3.6 Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Hot in the City (The New 52) by Jimmy Palmiotti
0.938 3.69 Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
0.938 2.51 Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa De la Cruz
0.936 4.28 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
0.935 3.7 Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
0.935 3.92 Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
0.934 3.35 The Appeal by John Grisham
0.934 3.69 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
0.931 3.37 Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
0.931 3.92 Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.929 3.58 Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory
0.928 3.93 Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
0.928 4.09 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
0.925 3.92 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
0.925 4.22 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.923 3.37 The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
0.923 3.67 The 6th Target by James Patterson
0.92 4.19 Middlemarch by George Eliot
0.918 3.7 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
0.918 3.83 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.917 3.36 The Brethren by John Grisham
0.916 3.95 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
0.916 3.46 The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
0.915 3.67 The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
0.915 3.62 The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
0.911 3.91 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
0.911 4.12 Little Women & Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.909 3.66 The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
0.908 4.26 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
0.906 4.05 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
0.905 3.93 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
0.904 3.68 The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes
0.903 3.87 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
0.903 3.92 Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
0.902 3.87 Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
0.902 4.21 Watership Down by Richard Adams
0.899 3.36 The Summons by John Grisham
0.898 4.05 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
0.898 3.81 Chocolat by Joanne Harris
0.897 4.12 The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
0.897 3.77 The Woman in the Window by Daniel Mallory
0.897 3.89 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
0.896 3.83 The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
0.895 3.56 The Dark Half by Stephen King
0.895 4.01 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
0.894 3.96 Dracula by Bram Stoker
0.893 3.59 The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
0.893 3.97 Misery by Stephen King
0.892 3.71 The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
0.892 3.96 The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Four Books) by James Dashner
0.891 3.67 The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
0.888 3.6 Cyclops by Clive Cussler
0.887 3.68 The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
0.886 4.15 Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
0.884 3.97 A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
0.883 4.08 The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
0.881 4.06 The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
0.881 4.27 Dune by Frank Herbert
0.88 3.68 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
0.88 4.15 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
0.88 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.877 3.86 Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
0.877 3.64 Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
0.877 3.74 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
0.874 4.12 The Shining by Stephen King
0.872 3.8 Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
0.871 4.04 A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
0.87 4.12 Christy by Catherine Marshall
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.87 3.84 Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
0.869 4.3 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
0.868 3.92 Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
0.868 4.08 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
0.867 4.2 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.867 3.1 A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
0.866 4.05 The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
0.866 4.35 Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë
0.862 3.64 After You by Jojo Moyes
0.859 4.14 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
0.858 3.89 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
0.857 3.83 Bossypants by Tina Fey
0.856 3.74 The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.853 4.25 A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0.852 4.27 The Princess Bride by William Goldman
0.852 3.82 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
0.85 4.2 Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
0.848 4.22 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.848 3.9 History of Rome, books 1-5 [in translation] by Titus Livy
0.847 3.98 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
0.846 4.26 An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.846 3.99 Fables, Vol. 01: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
0.846 3.93 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
0.844 3.97 Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
0.844 3.63 Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
0.843 3.85 Whistling In the Dark by Lesley Kagen
0.843 3.83 The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
0.839 4.36 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
0.834 3.84 The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
0.833 3.97 A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
0.833 4.06 Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill
0.83 4.29 Night by Elie Wiesel
0.829 4.04 History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
0.826 4.22 Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
0.825 4.26 The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
0.822 3.69 Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
0.82 4.12 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
0.82 4.2 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.819 3.71 Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
0.819 4.25 The Green Mile by Stephen King
0.817 3.88 A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
0.817 4.11 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.815 3.79 The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
0.813 4.29 Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
0.811 4.31 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
0.809 4.27 All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.808 3.67 Calico Joe by John Grisham
0.808 3.96 The Walking Dead, Volume 07: The Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
0.807 4.32 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
0.806 4.4 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.806 4.33 The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
0.804 4.02 Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
0.804 3.56 The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker
0.804 3.79 First Family by David Baldacci
0.803 4.29 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
0.8 3.96 Legends of King Arthur by Richard Barber
0.8 3.77 The Revenant by Michael Punke
0.8 3.97 The Walking Dead, Volume 04: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman
0.799 3.96 A Divided Loyalty by Charles Todd
0.796 3.99 The Stranger from the Sea by Winston Graham
0.795 4.18 Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
0.794 4 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.793 3.75 Firewall by Henning Mankell
0.791 3.43 The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate by Jonathan Maberry
0.787 4.4 The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
0.785 4.31 Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
0.781 3.77 The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory
0.78 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.778 3.91 Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham
0.777 4.14 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
0.775 4.04 Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar
0.772 3.73 The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
0.771 3.86 Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
0.77 4.03 Fables, Vol. 02: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
0.769 4.28 All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
0.768 4.47 The Return of The King by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.764 3.59 Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
0.764 4.14 The Walking Dead, Volume 08: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
0.763 4.08 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
0.76 3.89 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
0.757 4.41 Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
0.757 4.15 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving
0.753 4.04 The Walking Dead, Volume 06: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
0.752 4.28 The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
0.751 3.66 Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
0.751 3.89 Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster by Andrew Leatherbarrow
0.748 4.33 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
0.746 4.32 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
0.745 3.67 Uncanny X-Men, Volume 1: Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis
0.743 4.42 A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
0.741 4.07 Fables, Vol. 03: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
0.74 4.02 The Walking Dead, Volume 05: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
0.74 4.11 Bella Poldark by Winston Graham
0.738 3.91 Lady of the Butterflies by Fiona Mountain
0.733 4.07 The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham
0.732 4.14 SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
0.729 4.34 Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King
0.725 4.06 Warleggan by Winston Graham
0.723 4.14 Demelza by Winston Graham
0.715 3.66 Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him by Robert Kirkman
0.714 4.1 The Loving Cup by Winston Graham
0.704 4.09 The Black Moon by Winston Graham
0.7 4.02 The Four Swans by Winston Graham
0.698 4.55 Harry Potter (Books 1-4) by J. K. Rowling
0.694 3.78 The Body Snatcher and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.687 4.1 The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham
0.663 4.22 The Angry Tide by Winston Graham
0.652 4.13 A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
0.629 4.6 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
0.628 4.37 Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
0.565 4.72 Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand