Controversial Books for lindachristie

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 3.36 Homesickness by Murray Bail
1.189 3.54 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1.172 3.75 The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
1.167 3.64 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1.155 3.48 A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
1.136 3.57 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.117 3.51 Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
1.108 3.53 Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
1.087 3.41 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
1.085 3.45 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1.081 3.79 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
1.057 3.45 The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
1.042 3.58 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1.036 3.87 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1.035 3.86 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.026 3.5 Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir by Erica Jong
1.024 3.58 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
1.006 3.69 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
1.005 3.61 We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
0.993 3.5 Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly by Pamela Stephenson
0.99 3.62 The Riders by Tim Winton
0.985 3.49 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.982 3.95 Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
0.979 3.73 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
0.959 3.92 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
0.953 3.73 A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
0.951 3.76 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
0.947 3.35 The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
0.945 4.09 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
0.942 3.99 Journal Of A Solitude by May Sarton
0.938 3.99 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
0.933 3.4 That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton
0.93 4.02 My Brother Jack by George Johnston
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.926 3.83 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0.925 4.22 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.924 3.69 Puberty Blues: A Surfie Saga by Kathy Lette
0.923 4.19 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
0.914 3.95 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
0.913 3.73 When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
0.911 4.11 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
0.901 3.97 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
0.9 4.04 Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
0.892 3.62 My Place by Sally Morgan
0.892 3.8 Dirt Music by Tim Winton
0.89 3.85 Life by Keith Richards
0.888 3.64 Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner
0.888 3.91 The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
0.885 4.25 Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell
0.885 4.12 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
0.876 3.67 Bliss by Peter Carey
0.874 4.12 The Shining by Stephen King
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.867 4.25 The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
0.851 3.65 Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.84 4.36 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.828 3.95 The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
0.817 3.96 Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
0.814 3.9 The Women's Room by Marilyn French
0.81 4.04 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
0.805 4.04 Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
0.791 3.46 The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
0.79 3.99 My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
0.79 4.28 Stoner by John Williams
0.776 3.72 Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexandra
0.773 3.56 At Home with the Templetons by Monica McInerney
0.768 4.1 An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
0.752 3.91 The Spare Room by Helen Garner
0.751 3.68 Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
0.694 4.16 Harp in the South Novels by Ruth Park
0.673 3.19 Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner
0.656 4 What Falls Away: A Memoir by Mia Farrow
0.46 3.62 Mick Jagger by Philip Norman