Controversial Books for preetalina

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
1.309 3.49 Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
1.178 2.78 Extinct by Charles Wilson
1.156 3.36 Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten
1.132 4.01 Ice Cream & Sadness by Kris Wilson
1.131 2.38 One Night at the Call Center: A Novel by Chetan Bhagat
1.12 3.47 The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
1.071 2.92 Florence : a Delicate Case by David Leavitt
1.044 3.5 My Point...And I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres
1.037 3.84 Feed by Mira Grant
1.034 3.46 I, Zombie by Hugh Howey
1.031 3.68 Crosstalk by Connie Willis
1.031 3.88 After the Night by Linda Howard
1.021 3.21 Micro by Michael Crichton
1.015 3.8 To Die For: A Novel by Linda Howard
1.011 3.78 Feed by M. T. Anderson
1.01 3.97 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
1.008 3.33 Zone One by Colson Whitehead
1.006 3.76 How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
0.998 3.37 The Circle by Dave Eggers
0.989 3.77 Allison Hewitt Is Trapped by Madeleine Roux
0.985 2.86 Ocean of Storms by Christopher Mari
0.977 3.47 I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.97 3.43 The Matchmaker of Périgord by Julia Stuart
0.963 3.91 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
0.962 3.87 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0.961 3.86 Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper
0.96 3.67 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
0.956 3.97 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
0.951 4.07 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
0.95 4.02 Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
0.949 3.89 Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
0.949 3.89 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
0.949 3.7 Start Me Up by Victoria Dahl
0.948 3.81 Unlikely friendships by Jennifer S. Holland
0.947 3.98 Divergent by Veronica Roth
0.947 3.77 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
0.945 3.97 The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales by Diane Ackerman
0.942 3.99 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
0.942 3.65 How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by The Oatmeal
0.94 4.06 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.94 3.89 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
0.938 3.71 Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
0.935 3.98 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
0.932 3.98 Dream Man by Linda Howard
0.931 3.42 Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book by Grumpy Cat
0.93 3.84 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) by The Oatmeal
0.927 3.78 Genesis by Bernard Beckett
0.927 3.58 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
0.924 3.87 Starfish by Peter Watts
0.924 3.81 Dying to Please by Linda Howard
0.922 3.86 H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
0.919 4.03 Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found by Sophie Blackall
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.918 4.28 All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps by Dave Isay
0.917 3.21 Miss Timmins' School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
0.917 3.76 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
0.916 3.34 The Mortifications: A Novel by Derek Palacio
0.914 3.81 Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
0.914 3.63 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
0.913 3.63 Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
0.913 3.2 California by Edan Lepucki
0.912 3.67 The Enigma Strain by Nick Thacker
0.91 3.94 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.909 3.74 When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
0.908 3.68 Parasite by Mira Grant
0.906 3.79 Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
0.905 3.46 Prey by Linda Howard
0.905 4.1 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.904 3.93 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
0.901 3.85 The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
0.899 3.85 Kill and Tell: A Novel by Linda Howard
0.897 3.71 Yes Please by Amy Poehler
0.897 3.89 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
0.896 3.78 Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
0.894 3.63 New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
0.894 3.78 American War by Omar El Akkad
0.892 3.72 Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
0.891 4 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
0.891 3.74 The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
0.891 3.95 Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
0.89 4.2 The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
0.889 3.59 So Tough to Tame by Victoria Dahl
0.889 4.18 The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs
0.888 3.21 The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
0.887 3.45 Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park by Tim Cahill
0.887 3.91 The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
0.886 4.07 San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant
0.886 4.05 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
0.885 3.8 One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul
0.884 3.52 Looking for Trouble by Victoria Dahl
0.884 3.88 The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
0.884 4.1 All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen
0.883 3.82 The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
0.881 3.98 Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
0.881 3.65 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
0.88 3.78 The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
0.88 3.55 The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
0.878 3.57 Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo by Betty White
0.875 3.96 Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
0.875 3.89 Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem
0.872 3.68 A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
0.871 3.46 Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
0.871 3.94 A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
0.869 3.79 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
0.868 3.59 The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
0.866 3.74 Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny
0.866 3.29 Startup by Doree Shafrir
0.863 3.65 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and Other Concerns by Mindy Kaling
0.862 4 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
0.86 3.9 Lethal by Sandra Brown
0.859 3.74 Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
0.857 3.45 A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows
0.857 3.82 Bossypants by Tina Fey
0.856 4.18 In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
0.855 4.31 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
0.855 3.92 The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
0.854 3.95 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
0.853 3.91 Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
0.852 3.85 Now You See Her by Linda Howard
0.851 3.86 The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman
0.849 3.88 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
0.849 4.04 The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
0.848 4.08 Wool by Hugh Howey
0.846 4.02 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
0.844 3.82 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
0.84 4.35 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.839 4.07 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
0.839 4 Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
0.839 3.85 Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
0.838 3.78 Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
0.837 3.52 Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
0.835 3.54 If You Ask Me by Betty White
0.834 3.9 Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
0.832 3.65 Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
0.831 3.77 Maelstrom by Peter Watts
0.83 3.44 Family Life by Akhil Sharma
0.83 3.61 The Death of Faith by Donna Leon
0.829 3.82 The Death of Grass by John Christopher
0.827 3.81 Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
0.827 4.02 Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown
0.826 4.07 Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
0.822 4.17 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
0.818 4 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
0.818 4.28 The Martian by Andy Weir
0.817 4.02 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
0.817 3.94 MaddAddam: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
0.816 3.92 The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
0.816 4.11 Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
0.813 4.31 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
0.813 3.92 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.81 3.94 Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
0.81 3.88 The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
0.809 4 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
0.808 3.58 Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
0.806 4.29 Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
0.805 3.58 Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
0.805 4 Honolulu by Alan Brennert
0.805 4.12 Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
0.804 4.09 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield
0.803 3.97 Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
0.803 4.27 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
0.802 4.09 Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
0.801 4.22 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
0.799 4 This Is Paradise: Stories by Kristiana Kahakauwila
0.797 4.1 Deadline by Mira Grant
0.794 4.15 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
0.792 3.55 Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut
0.79 3.69 Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondack by Bill McKibben
0.79 4.25 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
0.79 4.15 My Life in France by Julia Child
0.788 4.09 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
0.787 3.94 Shift by Hugh Howey
0.786 3.85 Sourdough by Robin Sloan
0.783 3.93 The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
0.779 4.02 Blackout by Mira Grant
0.779 3.7 Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari
0.779 3.72 A Venetian Reckoning by Donna Leon
0.777 3.85 Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani
0.776 4.37 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.765 4.18 The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
0.764 3.7 Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box by Mira Grant
0.762 3.69 A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon
0.762 3.86 The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
0.761 4.16 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0.761 3.7 Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
0.758 4.05 Fever by Deon Meyer
0.754 3.91 Feedback by Mira Grant
0.753 3.84 Taking the Heat by Victoria Dahl
0.753 3.91 Lock In by John Scalzi
0.751 4.08 The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins
0.748 4.08 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
0.745 3.89 Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
0.738 4.29 Columbine by Dave Cullen
0.731 3.25 Bear in the Back Seat by Kim DeLozier
0.731 3.82 Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
0.73 3.9 Countdown by Mira Grant
0.728 3.88 Flirting With Disaster [with bonus novella 'Fanning the Flames'] by Victoria Dahl
0.727 3.79 Don't Look Behind You!: A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison
0.724 4.14 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
0.724 4.43 Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
0.722 4.18 Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
0.721 3.72 How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea by Mira Grant
0.713 3.69 Friends in High Places by Donna Leon
0.712 4.06 Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony
0.71 4.33 Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
0.704 4.24 Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall
0.702 4.26 Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection by The Awkward Yeti
0.699 3.99 Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting The Story by Angela Saini
0.693 3.64 The Windfall by Diksha Basu
0.691 3.53 No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi
0.683 4.3 Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman
0.682 3.73 Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong by Jessica Bacal
0.681 3.97 The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
0.675 4.36 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
0.675 3.63 The Last Bookstore in America by Amy Stewart
0.669 4.29 Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne
0.667 4.15 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach
0.661 4.17 Simon's Cat: Beyond The Fence by Simon Tofield
0.661 4.02 We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
0.657 4.08 The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff
0.653 4.47 March: Book One by John Lewis
0.647 4.44 Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg
0.612 4.08 Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus by Mira Grant
0.538 4.29 Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic by Stephan Pastis
0.502 4.28 The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures by Lawrence Anthony