105 books
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Controversial Books
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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.87 — 962,314 ratings — published 1955
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,554,672 ratings — published 2003
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,231 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,713 ratings — published 1988
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,471 ratings — published 1951
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,506 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,507 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,608,155 ratings — published 1948
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 215,529 ratings — published 2016
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,033,658 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,949 ratings — published 2007
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,249,777 ratings — published 1964
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,777 ratings — published 2006
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,803 ratings — published 1991
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,896,260 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,489,989 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,673,672 ratings — published 1945
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.33 — 60,800 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,682 ratings — published 1932
I Hate My Bow! (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 2.41 — 315 ratings — published 1996
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,892 ratings — published 1925
Love You Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.38 — 249,156 ratings — published 1986
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,998,283 ratings — published 1960
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,581 ratings — published
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 439,674 ratings — published 2020
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,447 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,910,710 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,811 ratings — published 1848
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,253,773 ratings — published 1954
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.37 — 706,404 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,414 ratings — published
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,313 ratings — published 2017
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.50 — 140,066 ratings — published 1928
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,283,923 ratings — published 2004
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,889,586 ratings — published 1937
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.35 — 373,345 ratings — published 1971
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,079 ratings — published 1970
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,386 ratings — published 1999
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.73 — 294,254 ratings — published 1971
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,697 ratings — published 1995
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.86 — 242,239 ratings — published 1979
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,968 ratings — published 1934
Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,873 ratings — published 2001
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,823,877 ratings — published 2012
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 258,428 ratings — published 1970
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.06 — 596,877 ratings — published 1977
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,982 ratings — published 1969
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,724,112 ratings — published 2016
Time to Pee! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,568 ratings — published
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