Controversial Books for OldSoul

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
1.228 3.38 Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.211 3.15 Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.165 3.48 Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.159 3.49 Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.155 3.48 A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.116 3.2 Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.107 3.65 Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass
1.086 3.46 Blood Canticle by Anne Rice
1.082 3.43 Rain (Hudson Family, Book 1 by V. C. Andrews
1.076 3.57 Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron by Tom Holland
1.069 3.3 Eye of the Storm (Hudson Family) by V. C. Andrews
1.066 3.68 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
1.052 3.66 My Sweet Audrina by V. C. Andrews
1.041 3.79 Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.035 3.22 Lightning Strikes (Hudson Family) by V. C. Andrews
1.034 3.63 Ruby (Landry Saga) by V. C. Andrews
1.032 3.8 Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.029 3.69 Hannibal's Children by John Maddox Roberts
1.024 3.69 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1.021 3.52 The Saskiad by Brian Hall
1.02 3.47 The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
1.018 4 Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton
1.017 3.83 A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K. Hamilton
1.015 3.28 The End of the Rainbow by V. C. Andrews
1.004 4.19 Alice in Wonderland [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] by Lewis Carroll
1 4.06 The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.989 3.63 Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
0.98 3.92 The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
0.979 3.76 Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
0.979 3.87 The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
0.979 4.07 Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.974 3.8 Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
0.967 4.01 The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
0.967 3.78 Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.966 3.97 The Once and Future King, Including The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White
0.965 3.37 Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century by Naomi Wolf
0.965 3.94 The Little Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson
0.957 3.8 The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
0.956 4.03 The Iliad by Homer
0.953 3.35 Bite by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.949 3.46 Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
0.949 3.87 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
0.948 3.65 The Song of Roland by Turoldus
0.947 3.8 Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.945 4.09 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
0.943 3.97 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
0.942 4.03 The Odyssey by Homer
0.938 3.86 Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
0.938 3.88 One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
0.93 4.08 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.928 3.95 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.921 4.23 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
0.919 4 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
0.912 3.74 The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
0.905 3.94 Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon
0.905 3.99 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
0.904 3.89 The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.902 3.98 The Saga of the Renunciates by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.899 3.94 Mythology by Edith Hamilton
0.898 4.02 Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
0.896 4.14 Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies
0.896 3.63 Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
0.896 3.99 Company of Adventurers by Peter C. Newman
0.891 3.85 Adam Bede by George Eliot
0.888 4.1 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Cleanness / Patience by Gawain Poet
0.887 3.99 The Singing Sword by Jack Whyte
0.886 3.82 Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
0.886 3.62 Sherwood by Parke Godwin
0.885 3.89 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1 by Alan Moore
0.883 3.87 Sword and Sorceress XVI by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.882 4.23 The Complete Plays by Oscar Wilde
0.881 3.74 Exile's Song by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.88 3.82 Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith
0.876 3.77 The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
0.876 3.92 The Little Country by Charles de Lint
0.875 3.79 The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
0.875 3.94 Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton
0.874 3.74 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.873 3.6 The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks
0.87 3.81 The Forever King by Molly Cochran
0.869 3.89 Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
0.867 3.9 Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
0.866 4.07 The Cider House Rules by John Irving
0.863 4.06 The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.86 3.42 After Dark by Phillip Margolin
0.854 4.09 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
0.852 4.38 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.85 4.02 Stardust by Neil Gaiman
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.845 3.73 The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century by T. H. White
0.845 4.03 Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
0.844 3.97 The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
0.844 3.85 If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients by Sheldon B. Kopp
0.842 3.81 Traitor's Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.842 3.67 The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
0.841 4.29 Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
0.829 3.99 Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
0.829 3.42 Ultimate X-Men Vol. 6: Return of the King by Mark Millar
0.829 2.69 Ultimate X-Men Vol. 15: Magical by Robert Kirkman
0.828 3.81 Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon
0.828 3.94 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
0.825 4.15 Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
0.818 3.86 Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 02: Dangerous by Joss Whedon
0.814 4.07 The Sorcerer : Metamorphosis by Jack Whyte
0.813 3.94 Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
0.8 4.01 Young Avengers, Vol. 1: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg
0.798 4.25 Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
0.797 3.93 Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
0.797 3.97 Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
0.785 3.91 Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede
0.784 4.14 Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell
0.782 4.03 The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
0.768 4.11 Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
0.767 4.32 Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
0.761 4.27 Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin Edition) by J. K. Rowling
0.734 3.36 The Celts: A History by Peter Berresford Ellis
0.729 3.73 The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward
0.712 3.94 A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3 : Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy : Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World by Frederick Copleston
0.705 3.33 The Wizard's Daughter by Barbara Michaels
0.687 4.08 The Resistance by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
0.678 3.23 The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London by Daniel Hahn
0.575 3.17 Ultimate X-Men Vol. 16: Cable by Robert Kirkman