Controversial Books for scottring

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
1.301 3.70 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.213 3.56 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1.182 3.84 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.172 3.75 The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.121 3.93 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.113 3.65 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making by Dave Eggers
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.044 3.64 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.031 3.60 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1.030 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.027 3.70 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
1.022 3.85 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
1.020 3.64 The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1.014 3.77 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.010 4.17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.000 3.78 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
0.998 3.84 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
0.996 3.67 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
0.990 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.989 3.80 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.980 3.68 A Natural History Of Love by Diane Ackerman
0.978 3.93 Atonement by Ian McEwan
0.978 3.95 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
0.971 3.45 Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
0.970 3.53 The Tiger's Wife by TĂ©a Obreht
0.969 3.66 This Is How You Lose Her by Junot DĂ­az
0.966 3.91 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
0.962 3.87 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0.953 3.75 Lush Life by Richard Price
0.952 4.00 To the End of the Land by David Grossman
0.950 3.47 Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry
0.948 3.85 The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
0.945 3.98 The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales by Diane Ackerman
0.945 3.63 Canada by Richard Ford
0.942 4.00 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
0.942 3.79 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
0.940 4.06 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.939 3.92 Demian by Hermann Hesse
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.936 3.84 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
0.936 4.14 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
0.936 4.06 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
0.936 3.95 The Stranger by Albert Camus
0.932 4.03 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
0.926 4.10 The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
0.923 4.18 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
0.919 3.61 Open City by Teju Cole
0.917 3.85 Ragtime: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
0.917 4.07 The World According to Garp by John Irving
0.915 3.99 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
0.913 4.06 Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
0.912 4.20 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
0.911 3.65 The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
0.902 4.18 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
0.900 3.46 What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha
0.900 4.20 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
0.898 4.05 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
0.896 3.95 The Plague by Albert Camus
0.894 3.98 The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
0.893 4.02 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
0.889 3.98 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
0.886 4.12 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
0.885 4.24 America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
0.884 4.09 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
0.883 4.04 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
0.880 4.19 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
0.879 4.05 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
0.879 3.79 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
0.878 4.20 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
0.878 3.83 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
0.878 3.90 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
0.877 3.78 Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
0.877 3.73 Private Empire : Exxonmobil and American Power by Steve Coll
0.872 4.14 A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
0.869 3.78 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
0.868 3.86 Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
0.867 4.27 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.867 4.04 Lincoln by Gore Vidal
0.865 3.69 Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
0.865 3.88 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
0.862 3.95 The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
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 3.96 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
0.862 4.08 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
0.860 3.95 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
0.860 4.26 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
0.857 4.17 Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
0.854 4.03 The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
0.854 4.37 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.853 4.23 1984 by George Orwell
0.852 4.37 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.844 4.13 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
0.842 3.90 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
0.840 4.35 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
0.840 3.95 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
0.839 4.12 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
0.837 4.13 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
0.837 3.93 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
0.836 4.10 Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
0.834 3.95 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
0.833 4.05 1776 by David McCullough
0.832 4.11 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
0.830 4.29 Night by Elie Wiesel
0.830 4.00 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
0.827 3.93 Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M. Gates
0.827 4.27 The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
0.826 4.07 Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
0.825 4.25 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
0.825 4.14 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
0.823 4.12 The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
0.822 4.01 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
0.820 4.20 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.818 3.96 John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
0.815 4.15 With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates
0.815 4.00 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
0.809 3.88 Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
0.808 4.08 Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
0.806 4.40 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.806 3.75 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
0.805 4.21 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
0.803 4.24 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
0.799 4.19 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
0.799 4.30 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
0.799 4.01 Native American Literature Course Pack by Collection
0.794 3.83 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
0.792 4.17 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
0.789 3.96 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
0.788 3.81 Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
0.784 4.27 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
0.780 4.53 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.777 4.03 Clockers by Richard Price
0.776 4.37 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
0.771 4.33 John Adams by David McCullough
0.770 4.33 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
0.768 4.47 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
0.762 4.12 Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
0.755 4.07 The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
0.752 3.81 Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin
0.751 4.18 Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
0.751 4.31 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
0.746 4.20 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
0.746 3.88 History of the World by J. M. Roberts
0.742 4.33 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
0.732 4.55 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
0.728 4.44 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.719 4.56 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
0.706 3.99 His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
0.698 3.62 Drama City by George Pelecanos
0.689 4.36 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
0.687 4.14 Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick
0.664 4.09 Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner
0.661 3.98 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by J. R. McNeill
0.650 4.23 The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
0.629 4.52 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price