Controversial Books for catalkeels

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
1.185 3.09 Superstitious by R. L. Stine
1.16 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.129 3.28 Beast by Peter Benchley
1.118 3.49 Emergency Room by Caroline B. Cooney
1.112 3.73 The Berenstain Bears Get Stage Fright by Stan Berenstain
1.112 3.51 Flowers In The Attic by V. C. Andrews
1.107 3.68 The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
1.1 3.38 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.083 3.8 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey
1.071 3.88 The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma’s by Stan Berenstain
1.056 3.71 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
1.055 3.67 The Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team by Stan Berenstain
1.054 3.94 Confessions by Saint Augustine
1.052 3.05 The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
1.052 3.64 The Berenstain Bears: No Girls Allowed by Stan Berenstain
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.028 4 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
1.023 3.65 Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1.015 3.91 The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday by Stan Berenstain
0.996 3.78 The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers by Stan Berenstain
0.994 2.76 The Rock Says... by Dwayne Johnson
0.988 3.89 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.981 3.75 The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends by Stan Berenstain
0.979 3.53 Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
0.959 4.11 The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
0.959 3.92 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
0.954 4.12 The Dark Tower by Stephen King
0.954 3.29 Congo by Michael Crichton
0.953 3.82 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
0.948 3.83 Dogs Don't Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar
0.941 4.18 The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.929 3.41 Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
0.928 3.74 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
0.922 3.94 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
0.92 3.79 Journey Into Darkness by John E. Douglas
0.919 3.51 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
0.909 3.74 Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch by Donald J. Sobol
0.904 4.09 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
0.903 3.86 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
0.899 3.05 Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson
0.896 3.77 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur
0.895 3.99 The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus
0.895 3.66 The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume
0.888 3.96 Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
0.885 3.48 Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History by Gardner Dozois
0.874 3.89 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
0.871 3.89 Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
0.868 3.97 The Final Days by Bob Woodward
0.866 4.17 Serpentine by Thomas Thompson
0.866 3.84 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.857 3.65 Timothy of the Cay by Theodore Taylor
0.857 3.89 The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.842 3.83 The Secret of Terror Castle by Robert Arthur
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.836 4.13 The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Malvina G. Vogel
0.833 4.34 The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé / Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
0.83 4.29 Night by Elie Wiesel
0.825 4.24 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
0.805 4.22 The High King by Lloyd Alexander
0.798 4.16 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
0.757 3.75 Christopher's Ghosts by Charles McCarry