Controversial Books for rachaelevelyn

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
1.262 3.2 Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.165 3.75 Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition] by Joseph Conrad
1.155 3.48 A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
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
1.123 3.93 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
1.121 3.94 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.117 3.21 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
1.114 3.63 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.103 3.51 Ruby by Francesca Lia Block
1.097 3.4 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
1.09 3.88 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1.081 3.79 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
1.075 3.83 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
1.064 3.67 Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
1.063 3.45 Hotel World by Ali Smith
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.037 3.75 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.031 3.86 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1.026 3.59 My Friend Leonard by James Frey
1.021 3.61 Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum
1.01 4.18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.007 4.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1.007 4.09 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.004 3.66 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
0.994 4.07 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
0.99 3.92 Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet Boxed Set by Benjamin Hoff
0.986 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.981 3.51 Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
0.98 3.81 The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
0.98 3.67 The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease
0.978 3.96 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.975 3.85 Echo by Francesca Lia Block
0.974 3.64 Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
0.973 3.84 Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
0.972 3.61 Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
0.972 3.76 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
0.97 3.89 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
0.965 3.7 The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
0.964 3.92 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
0.96 3.88 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
0.959 3.92 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
0.957 3.74 City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.956 3.99 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
0.956 3.97 Lord of the Flies (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) by William Golding
0.956 3.64 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker
0.949 4.14 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
0.947 3.91 Time and Again by Jack Finney
0.944 4.15 Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) by Walt Whitman
0.944 3.89 Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
0.941 4.22 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
0.941 3.81 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
0.938 3.84 Sula by Toni Morrison
0.937 3.72 I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
0.937 3.4 Swimming by Nicola Keegan
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.931 3.85 Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
0.93 4.08 The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0.926 3.52 Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
0.923 4.16 Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
0.921 4.13 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.919 3.4 The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thị diễm thúy
0.918 4.11 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
0.914 4.12 The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco
0.912 4.2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
0.91 3.76 Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
0.91 4.11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
0.906 4.04 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
0.905 4.1 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.899 4.06 Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
0.899 3.94 Mythology by Edith Hamilton
0.898 4.19 Energy Medicine by Donna Eden
0.896 4.28 Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
0.894 4.17 Collected Poems 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
0.894 3.91 Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
0.892 3.72 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
0.89 4.08 The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
0.889 3.84 Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
0.882 3.95 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
0.88 4.15 Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver
0.875 4.1 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.874 3.89 The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
0.873 3.99 Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver
0.87 3.79 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
0.87 4.4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
0.867 4.09 A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 3.78 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.863 4.28 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.861 4.2 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
0.856 3.57 Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.853 4.02 Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
0.851 4 The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories by Daniel Halpern
0.851 4.08 Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
0.849 4.13 Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.843 3.95 The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
0.842 4.14 Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.838 3.99 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
0.836 4.36 Dune / Dune Messiah / Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
0.833 4.22 On Writing by Stephen King
0.822 4.01 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
0.82 3.99 Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.8 4.18 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
0.799 4.41 The Gift by Hafiz
0.796 4.18 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.786 4.27 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
0.783 4.08 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
0.769 4.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.767 4.19 City of Thieves by David Benioff
0.76 4.36 Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
0.76 4.05 Sifting through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
0.756 4.45 Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
0.756 4.06 Persepolis II: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
0.735 4 Death's Acre by William M. Bass