Controversial Books for charliebucket

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
1.234 3.77 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
1.189 3.19 The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock
1.154 3.51 The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.062 3.9 Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
1.056 3.3 The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt
1.053 3.49 Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
1.046 3.86 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
1.045 3.44 The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton
1.039 3.28 The Difference Engine by William Gibson
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1.018 3.53 The Malacia Tapestry by Brian W. Aldiss
1.012 3.23 The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
1.009 3.77 Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
1.004 3.66 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
0.997 3.57 The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White
0.996 3.53 Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
0.984 4.03 Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
0.982 3.8 Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
0.98 3.61 Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
0.978 3.62 The Players of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.968 3.23 Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
0.967 3.33 The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock
0.965 3.72 The Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
0.961 3.62 Iron Council by China Miéville
0.96 3.67 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
0.957 3.65 The Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock
0.953 3.93 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
0.951 4.04 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
0.949 3.61 Glue by Irvine Welsh
0.943 3.97 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
0.937 3.38 Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy by Ellen Datlow
0.937 3.52 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
0.936 3.83 The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
0.931 3.99 The Elric Saga, Part I (Elric of Melniboné; The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; The Weird of the White Wolf) by Michael Moorcock
0.929 3.93 Clea by Lawrence Durrell
0.925 4.2 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
0.921 3.34 Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
0.92 3.89 The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
0.919 3.6 The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs
0.917 3.48 The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
0.914 3.99 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
0.905 4.09 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
0.901 4 Microcosmic Tales by Isaac Asimov
0.898 3.92 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
0.897 4.12 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
0.895 3.98 Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery
0.88 4.03 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
0.879 3.11 Strength of Stones by Greg Bear
0.877 3.89 Again, Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison
0.866 3.79 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
0.863 3.73 Swords and Ice Magic by Fritz Leiber
0.862 3.64 Virtual Light by William Gibson
0.862 3.71 Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
0.861 4.2 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
0.859 3.65 Idoru by William Gibson
0.857 4.08 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
0.854 4.02 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
0.853 3.81 Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.836 3.74 Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
0.835 3.24 Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell
0.832 3.9 Burning Chrome by William Gibson
0.829 3.66 The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
0.829 3.84 Count Zero by William Gibson
0.829 3.84 The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
0.822 3.61 The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
0.821 4.04 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
0.82 3.67 Little Heroes by Norman Spinrad
0.813 3.88 Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison
0.803 4.07 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
0.801 4.09 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
0.796 3.69 The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
0.788 4.13 Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
0.786 3.88 Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
0.784 3.55 Count Brass by Michael Moorcock
0.768 3.57 Web of the City by Harlan Ellison
0.751 3.62 Lord Tyger by Philip José Farmer
0.706 4.01 Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Brian Wilson Aldiss
0.657 4.11 Dangerous Visions 1 by Harlan Ellison
0.634 3.5 The White Wolf's Son by Michael Moorcock