Controversial Books for clkwiat

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
1.424 2.93 Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
1.357 3.16 On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep by Gary Ezzo
1.337 3.43 The Shack by William P. Young
1.317 3.70 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.290 3.67 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
1.286 3.44 Grey by E L James
1.280 3.30 Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis
1.270 2.88 Shadow Moon by Chris Claremont
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.205 3.64 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
1.189 3.53 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1.184 3.79 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.155 3.48 A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
1.141 3.72 The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
1.140 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.140 3.99 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
1.114 3.54 The Irish Cottage: Finding Elizabeth by Juliet Gauvin
1.110 3.70 The Descent by Jeff Long
1.109 3.89 The Host by Stephenie Meyer
1.108 3.74 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
1.100 3.59 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
1.094 3.54 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
1.093 3.30 Gerald's Game by Stephen King
1.090 3.64 Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
1.084 3.48 The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders
1.084 4.22 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1.082 3.75 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
1.065 3.76 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.062 3.73 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
1.057 3.32 Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
1.055 3.37 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
1.054 3.70 Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
1.054 3.82 She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1.048 3.11 The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
1.041 3.34 Deception Point by Dan Brown
1.041 3.94 The Fever King by Victoria Lee
1.038 3.31 Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
1.036 3.33 Twist of Faith by Ellen J. Green
1.029 3.70 Who by Geoff Smart
1.027 3.70 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
1.023 3.67 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
1.015 3.58 The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
1.014 4.00 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
1.013 3.64 Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
1.013 3.75 House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
1.010 3.84 A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
1.010 4.17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.008 3.92 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.007 4.08 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.006 3.54 Private Parts by Howard Stern
1.006 3.63 Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale
1.004 3.55 A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1.003 3.45 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
1.001 3.80 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
0.998 3.51 Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub
0.997 3.99 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.993 4.01 Everything We Left Behind by Kerry Lonsdale
0.992 3.99 Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
0.991 3.79 The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
0.987 3.67 A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
0.984 3.73 Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani
0.982 3.46 Shadow Star by Chris Claremont
0.981 4.03 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
0.976 3.25 Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
0.972 3.74 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
0.972 3.33 Shadow Dawn by Chris Claremont
0.971 3.88 The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
0.971 3.72 The Power by Naomi Alderman
0.970 3.68 Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
0.969 3.57 Christine by Stephen King
0.968 3.45 Cujo by Stephen King
0.966 4.27 Supernova by Marissa Meyer
0.963 3.91 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
0.963 3.65 Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
0.961 3.62 Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
0.958 3.84 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
0.958 4.07 It by Stephen King
0.957 3.89 White Oleander by Janet Fitch
0.957 3.70 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
0.956 4.17 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
0.955 3.40 Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
0.953 3.38 An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet Van der Zijl
0.949 3.73 When I'm Gone by Emily Bleeker
0.949 4.11 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
0.949 3.35 The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
0.948 3.53 The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
0.947 3.36 The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
0.945 3.72 A Mercy by Toni Morrison
0.944 3.31 The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers by Vicki Iovine
0.944 4.12 Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
0.942 3.89 The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge
0.940 4.06 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.940 4.10 The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
0.940 3.54 The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.938 3.70 Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
0.938 3.88 One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
0.938 3.74 The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
0.937 3.42 Wreckage by Emily Bleeker
0.937 3.88 Delirium by Lauren Oliver
0.935 3.72 Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story by Stephen King
0.934 3.77 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
0.934 3.74 I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán
0.932 3.84 The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
0.932 3.99 Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
0.932 3.63 The Lady of the Lake: A Poem by Sir Walter Scott
0.930 3.83 The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett
0.926 3.97 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
0.925 4.21 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
0.924 4.10 I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
0.924 3.83 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
0.923 4.18 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
0.922 3.84 Alaska by James A. Michener
0.918 4.06 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
0.918 3.76 Lucky by Alice Sebold
0.916 3.95 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
0.915 3.99 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
0.915 3.88 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
0.914 4.00 Animal Farm by George Orwell
0.914 3.97 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
0.914 4.05 World Without End by Ken Follett
0.914 3.82 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
0.911 4.11 Little Women / Little Women, Part Second {Good Wives} by Louisa May Alcott
0.910 3.66 The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos
0.908 3.42 While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
0.908 3.77 You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
0.907 4.09 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
0.906 3.40 Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
0.906 3.96 The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
0.906 3.08 The Second Angel by Philip Kerr
0.905 3.99 The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
0.904 3.69 Holmes on the Range (Holmes on the Range Mysteries) by Steve Hockensmith
0.904 3.99 Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins
0.902 3.60 The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
0.902 4.18 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
0.902 4.21 Watership Down by Richard Adams
0.902 3.61 The Bolter by Frances Osborne
0.901 3.79 Subterranean by James Rollins
0.900 3.84 Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
0.899 3.99 Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
0.899 3.67 My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
0.898 4.05 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
0.896 3.59 The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn
0.894 3.98 Recursion by Blake Crouch
0.893 3.28 The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello
0.892 3.83 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
0.892 3.75 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
0.891 3.76 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
0.889 3.64 Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard
0.889 4.07 Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
0.886 3.54 Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
0.886 3.87 The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett
0.884 3.77 Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
0.883 4.16 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
0.882 3.69 The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood by Vicki Iovine
0.881 4.27 Dune by Frank Herbert
0.880 4.14 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
0.880 4.15 The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
0.880 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.878 3.70 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
0.878 3.26 The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
0.876 3.72 Cave of Bones by Anne Hillerman
0.876 4.04 The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
0.875 3.87 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
0.875 4.10 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
0.869 3.89 Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
0.869 4.16 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
0.868 4.09 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
0.868 4.03 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
0.867 4.04 Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
0.867 4.32 Game of Thrones : Preview edition by George R. R. Martin
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.866 4.02 Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
0.866 4.18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
0.864 3.44 Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank
0.862 3.91 Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
0.862 4.00 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
0.862 3.97 Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
0.861 4.01 The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
0.861 4.29 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
0.861 3.91 Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
0.860 3.55 Blame by Michelle Huneven
0.860 4.00 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
0.860 4.26 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
0.859 3.95 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
0.858 4.16 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
0.854 4.14 Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.853 4.15 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.851 4.06 Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
0.849 4.04 The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
0.848 4.21 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
0.848 3.61 Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
0.848 4.28 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
0.848 4.08 Wool by Hugh Howey
0.847 3.89 Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
0.847 3.90 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.846 3.61 Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
0.846 3.90 To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
0.845 3.47 The Moonlit Garden by Corina Bomann
0.844 3.38 Beautiful Exiles by Meg Waite Clayton
0.844 3.44 The Flying Flamingo Sisters by Carrie Seim
0.843 4.02 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
0.842 4.00 Naked by David Sedaris
0.841 4.14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
0.840 4.35 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.840 3.52 The God Engines by John Scalzi
0.839 3.96 Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
0.837 3.91 Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
0.837 3.91 The Outsider by Stephen King
0.837 3.95 Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
0.836 4.08 American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
0.835 4.06 Calypso by David Sedaris
0.834 3.98 The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
0.833 3.61 Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
0.832 4.33 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
0.831 4.08 Cinder by Marissa Meyer
0.830 4.29 Night by Elie Wiesel
0.829 4.22 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
0.829 4.06 Old Man's War by John Scalzi
0.828 3.95 High Five by Janet Evanovich
0.827 4.06 His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
0.827 3.94 Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
0.825 3.47 Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath
0.825 4.04 Brave Companions: Portraits In History by David McCullough
0.825 4.21 11/22/63 by Stephen King
0.825 4.14 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
0.825 4.17 Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
0.824 4.36 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
0.823 3.59 The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
0.822 4.17 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
0.821 3.98 Renegades by Marissa Meyer
0.821 4.08 From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
0.819 4.27 The Green Mile by Stephen King
0.818 3.63 Go: A Coming of Age Novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro
0.818 4.00 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
0.817 3.98 The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
0.815 4.00 Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
0.815 4.28 The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
0.813 4.30 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
0.813 3.93 Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
0.809 4.42 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
0.808 4.04 Winter of the World by Ken Follett
0.807 3.79 What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
0.806 4.40 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.805 4.08 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
0.804 4.15 The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
0.799 4.19 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
0.798 3.82 The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
0.796 4.00 Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
0.793 4.36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
0.792 4.28 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
0.791 3.81 Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
0.790 3.84 The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe
0.790 4.35 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
0.788 4.31 Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
0.787 3.94 Shift by Hugh Howey
0.786 3.72 The Whiskey Sea by Ann Howard Creel
0.785 3.80 Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
0.784 4.36 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
0.782 3.98 Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
0.778 4.12 Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
0.778 3.85 Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
0.777 3.98 Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
0.773 3.96 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
0.771 4.33 John Adams by David McCullough
0.771 4.46 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
0.769 4.27 Circe by Madeline Miller
0.769 3.83 The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
0.769 4.40 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
0.768 4.47 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.767 4.07 The Institute by Stephen King
0.765 4.12 Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
0.764 4.06 The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
0.764 3.92 The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson
0.760 4.07 Dust by Hugh Howey
0.760 4.08 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
0.760 3.73 Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson
0.760 3.98 The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
0.759 4.05 Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
0.757 4.01 The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
0.752 4.30 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
0.750 3.85 Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
0.747 3.53 Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
0.742 4.33 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
0.742 4.33 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
0.738 4.40 Truman by David McCullough
0.738 3.63 The End of October by Lawrence Wright
0.734 4.48 Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
0.733 4.11 Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
0.727 4.24 The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
0.715 4.28 Cress by Marissa Meyer
0.713 4.30 The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
0.712 4.20 Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
0.701 4.24 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
0.694 3.80 Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
0.679 4.44 Becoming by Michelle Obama
0.662 3.91 The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold by Peter V. Brett
0.656 3.58 The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
0.650 4.48 Grant by Ron Chernow
0.648 4.60 Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson