Controversial Books for DMO

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
1.304 2.70 Winnie and Wolf by A. N. Wilson
1.287 3.33 Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann
1.167 3.65 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1.131 3.86 Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
1.100 3.41 Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy by Gavin Edwards
1.086 4.08 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
1.076 3.44 The Magicians by Lev Grossman
1.067 3.01 Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship by Cathie Beck
1.058 3.68 The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
1.045 2.98 This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets
1.041 3.14 Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 by William Boyd
1.033 3.13 Fatlands by Sarah Dunant
1.032 3.90 Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster
1.025 2.99 I Am No One by Patrick Flanery
1.023 3.13 Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
1.011 3.85 Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
1.008 3.42 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
1.007 3.67 My Family and Other Hazards: A Memoir by June Melby
1.007 4.09 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
1.000 4.06 The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
0.997 3.71 Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
0.997 3.85 The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.989 3.29 One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
0.989 3.77 Guernica by Dave Boling
0.988 3.36 Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.983 2.61 Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences by Nancy Balbirer
0.983 3.57 Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
0.982 3.80 Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
0.980 3.10 Kids These Days by Drew Perry
0.979 3.90 Georgia by Dawn Tripp
0.975 3.18 Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz
0.974 3.27 Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
0.974 3.47 Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
0.970 3.59 The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
0.970 3.77 From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
0.969 3.76 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir by Anna Quindlen
0.966 3.81 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
0.966 3.55 Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
0.962 3.87 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0.961 3.26 Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
0.954 3.50 Alligators, Old Mink, and New Money: One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing by Alison Houtte
0.951 3.92 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
0.949 4.14 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
0.945 3.56 Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny by Marlo Thomas
0.943 3.97 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
0.943 3.39 The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
0.942 4.14 A Trip To The Stars: A Novel by Nicholas Christopher
0.940 3.46 A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein
0.940 3.87 Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison
0.939 3.04 Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
0.939 4.06 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
0.937 3.41 The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman
0.937 3.46 A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison
0.931 3.71 Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
0.930 3.69 The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
0.922 3.58 Chindi by Jack McDevitt
0.920 3.29 Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
0.918 4.06 American Gods {original} by Neil Gaiman
0.918 3.78 Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
0.916 3.46 The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy L. O'Brien
0.913 3.45 Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
0.910 3.94 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
0.910 3.35 Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis
0.907 3.79 Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne
0.906 3.53 Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
0.906 3.26 You by Joanna Briscoe
0.905 3.58 Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
0.905 4.11 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
0.905 4.16 The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.904 3.76 Hit Man by Lawrence Block
0.898 3.94 Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
0.898 3.81 Chocolat by Joanne Harris
0.898 2.99 A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
0.897 3.60 Impact by Douglas Preston
0.893 3.62 Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein
0.892 3.95 The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
0.890 3.58 The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
0.890 3.95 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
0.889 3.85 Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene
0.889 3.78 In the Woods by Tana French
0.887 2.95 The Twisted Thread by Charlotte Bacon
0.886 3.81 With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George
0.885 3.35 Super Pop!: Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make it Through the Holidays by Daniel Harmon
0.882 3.55 The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake
0.881 3.02 The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu
0.881 3.74 A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart
0.877 4.27 Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
0.876 4.17 The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny
0.875 3.87 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
0.871 4.04 A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
0.871 3.12 The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
0.868 3.74 Coyote Rising by Allen Steele
0.865 3.66 Life Drawing by Robin Black
0.865 3.70 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
0.864 3.78 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
0.863 3.85 The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
0.863 3.68 Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression by Bev Brazelton
0.862 3.95 The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
0.862 3.80 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
0.861 4.18 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
0.860 4.04 Straight Man by Richard Russo
0.859 3.98 Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan
0.857 3.87 Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
0.856 4.25 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
0.855 3.92 The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
0.855 4.22 Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
0.854 3.77 February by Lisa Moore
0.853 4.12 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
0.852 3.82 Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
0.850 3.84 Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart Ass Phase by Jen Lancaster
0.849 3.15 Birth Marks by Sarah Dunant
0.849 3.52 Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin by Myra Friedman
0.848 4.13 The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
0.846 4.37 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
0.846 3.98 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
0.846 3.60 The Might Have Been: A Novel by Joe Schuster
0.845 3.44 Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
0.845 3.05 Lucky Break by Esther Freud
0.843 4.35 Jim Henson: The Works - The Art, the Magic, the Imagination by Christopher Finch
0.842 3.66 The Pitcher by William Hazelgrove
0.841 3.74 Breakdown by Sara Paretsky
0.839 4.09 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
0.838 3.13 Her by Harriet Lane
0.838 3.39 Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
0.838 3.78 Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
0.837 3.53 Black Irish: A Novel by Stephan Talty
0.836 3.94 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
0.833 3.77 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
0.832 3.67 A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt
0.832 4.00 Coraline by Neil Gaiman
0.831 3.96 Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
0.831 4.17 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
0.830 3.80 The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
0.830 3.46 Guests on Earth by Lee Smith
0.829 3.21 A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon
0.828 3.94 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
0.827 3.83 A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Carole King
0.825 3.63 Coyote by Allen Steele
0.825 3.87 Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World's Most Coveted Handbag by Michael Tonello
0.823 3.61 While I'm Falling by Laura Moriarty
0.823 4.12 The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
0.820 3.83 The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
0.818 4.00 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
0.815 3.70 A Superior Death by Nevada Barr
0.812 3.76 One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
0.812 3.91 This Body of Death by Elizabeth George
0.812 3.84 The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
0.812 3.52 Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
0.810 3.84 The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
0.810 3.63 Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner
0.810 4.16 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
0.809 3.98 The Likeness by Tana French
0.805 4.01 Honolulu by Alan Brennert
0.804 4.14 The gold cell : poems by Sharon Olds
0.801 4.15 Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
0.800 4.23 Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
0.793 3.92 Hardball by Sara Paretsky
0.792 3.46 Alone by Loren D. Estleman
0.789 4.09 The Fifties by David Halberstam
0.787 3.38 A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu-lien Tan
0.776 4.33 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
0.772 3.88 The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
0.770 3.79 Damage by John Lescroart
0.769 4.14 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
0.767 3.86 The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women by Susan J. Douglas
0.766 3.65 Winter Study by Nevada Barr
0.764 4.11 How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
0.764 3.82 9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes by Patricia Morrisroe
0.764 3.88 The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell
0.763 3.68 A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
0.759 3.82 Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
0.759 4.06 The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
0.758 3.59 The Suspect by John Lescroart
0.757 4.05 Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
0.753 3.55 A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock
0.751 3.80 The Last September by Nina de Gramont
0.750 3.69 Polaris by Jack McDevitt
0.748 3.93 Faithful Place by Tana French
0.740 4.00 The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
0.737 3.46 The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt
0.736 3.67 The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
0.733 3.87 The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
0.719 3.70 Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
0.704 3.80 Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia
0.698 3.45 The Predictions by Bianca Zander
0.697 3.77 Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David Meyer
0.696 3.60 Ready For a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America by Mark Kurlansky
0.670 4.39 The Children by David Halberstam
0.669 4.09 Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
0.559 3.69 Hot Little Hands: Fiction by Abigail Ulman