Controversial Books for mfmorgan

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
1.317 3.7 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.29 3.67 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
1.205 3.65 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
1.184 3.79 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
1.169 3.11 Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.14 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.114 3.39 The Ruins by Scott Smith
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.112 3.3 The Amityville Horror: A True Story by Jay Anson
1.102 3.71 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
1.099 3.36 Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived by Laurence Shames
1.097 3.4 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
1.094 3.54 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
1.091 3.57 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
1.083 3.69 Pasadena by David Ebershoff
1.08 3.88 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.058 3.19 The Red Badge of Courage / The Veteran by Stephen Crane
1.054 3.82 She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1.051 3.6 A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
1.05 3.62 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1.044 3.49 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.037 3.57 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1.032 3.03 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
1.03 3.53 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
1.03 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.027 3.7 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
1.023 3.52 The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
1.02 3.66 Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
1.012 3.36 The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
1.012 3.58 Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
1.012 3.96 The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
1.008 3.93 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.006 3.48 Rose Madder by Stephen King
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.003 3.48 Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
0.989 3.55 Filth by Irvine Welsh
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.986 3.77 Veronica by Nicholas Christopher
0.986 3.97 The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
0.985 4.02 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
0.984 3.76 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
0.983 3.7 Bag of Bones by Stephen King
0.982 3.6 Velocity by Dean Koontz
0.981 3.91 The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel by Brady Udall
0.981 3.95 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
0.979 3.83 Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
0.979 3.83 Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.975 3.32 From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
0.975 3.48 Shopgirl by Steve Martin
0.969 3.56 Christine by Stephen King
0.967 3.35 Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
0.966 3.9 The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
0.966 3.76 Pet Sematary by Stephen King
0.965 3.7 The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
0.965 3.71 Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
0.961 3.86 Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.961 3.92 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
0.959 3.79 Ghost Story by Peter Straub
0.958 3.59 Jaws by Peter Benchley
0.957 3.64 Myra Breckinridge [and] Myron by Gore Vidal
0.956 3.94 Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
0.956 3.83 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
0.954 3.29 Congo by Michael Crichton
0.951 3.47 The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice
0.949 3.72 Harlan's Race by Patricia Nell Warren
0.949 3.99 Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
0.948 3.79 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
0.948 3.84 A Time to Kill by John Grisham
0.947 3.82 Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
0.944 4.13 Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
0.942 4.14 A Trip To The Stars: A Novel by Nicholas Christopher
0.941 3.87 Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.938 3.74 How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story by Kirk Read
0.937 3.69 A Widow for One Year by John Irving
0.936 4.24 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
0.933 3.79 A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
0.933 3.76 Off Season by Jack Ketchum
0.932 3.68 Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
0.931 3.85 Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
0.929 3.87 Lady by Thomas Tryon
0.929 3.83 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
0.928 3.93 The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
0.928 3.92 Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
0.927 4 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
0.925 3.64 Firestarter by Stephen King
0.921 4.14 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.921 3.71 The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
0.92 3.66 Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
0.919 3.74 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
0.918 4.07 American Gods {original} by Neil Gaiman
0.917 4.07 The World According to Garp by John Irving
0.915 4 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
0.915 3.43 Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
0.915 3.93 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
0.915 3.71 Junky by William S. Burroughs
0.914 4 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 3.68 The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
0.913 3.75 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
0.911 3.83 Mystery by Peter Straub
0.911 3.93 ‘Salem's Lot by Stephen King
0.911 3.91 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
0.91 4.09 The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
0.909 3.66 Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays by David Sedaris
0.908 3.8 Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
0.903 3.94 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
0.9 3.97 Disco Bloodbath by James St. James
0.9 3.81 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
0.9 3.83 Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
0.898 4.04 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
0.897 3.8 The Dead Zone by Stephen King
0.894 3.91 Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
0.893 3.98 Misery by Stephen King
0.893 4.02 One More Time by Carol Burnett
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
0.89 3.78 Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
0.888 4.16 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
0.887 3.67 The 25th Hour by David Benioff
0.886 3.74 See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
0.882 3.59 The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
0.876 4.14 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
0.874 3.96 The Blessing of the Animals: True Stories of Ginny, the Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip González
0.874 4.13 The Shining by Stephen King
0.869 4.29 The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.863 3.92 Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.859 3.87 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
0.858 4.17 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
0.858 3.86 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
0.858 3.89 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
0.857 3.21 The Deep by Peter Benchley
0.856 3.88 Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.853 4 From Here to Eternity by James Jones
0.852 3.9 From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
0.85 4 Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
0.85 4.17 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
0.849 3.95 Chesapeake by James A. Michener
0.848 3.83 The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
0.847 3.99 The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.846 3.92 More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.844 3.86 Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
0.842 4.01 Naked by David Sedaris
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.838 4.31 Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
0.834 3.29 Sweet and Vicious by David Schickler
0.833 4.22 On Writing by Stephen King
0.83 4.32 A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
0.826 3.78 Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale
0.821 3.92 Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
0.813 4.09 The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
0.781 4.06 The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
0.767 3.94 Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
0.762 3.56 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Chuck Barris
0.75 3.86 Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo