Controversial Books for these_fragments

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
1.155 3.62 London Bridges by Jane Stevenson
1.121 3.93 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.113 3.47 Lost White Tribes: The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and Guadeloupe by Riccardo Orizio
1.075 3.74 The Borrible Trilogy by Michael de Larrabeiti
1.054 3.45 Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry
1.007 4.08 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.003 4.02 Possession by A. S. Byatt
0.999 3.90 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
0.998 3.62 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
0.979 3.83 Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
0.975 3.74 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
0.961 3.76 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
0.961 3.93 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
0.961 4.05 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
0.952 3.78 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
0.945 3.95 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
0.943 3.44 Brick Lane by Monica Ali
0.923 3.67 Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
0.923 4.18 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
0.920 3.76 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
0.910 3.94 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.896 3.88 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
0.878 4.20 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
0.872 3.89 The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
0.869 4.17 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
0.863 3.83 Number9Dream by David Mitchell
0.847 3.90 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
0.832 3.60 Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 by Bruce Chatwin
0.829 3.94 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
0.804 3.94 In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong
0.798 4.22 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
0.777 3.90 Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions by Jenny Diski
0.727 3.59 The Winter Queen by Jane Stevenson
0.686 4.41 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
0.604 4.11 I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong