It's a very long standing bug. The same thing can happen on the popular list as well.
I think it has something to do with the same problem where if you look at a book on one of your shelves, the avg. rating it reports is for that edition rather than all editions.
Has there been some change to the system in the past day or so that has caused this glitch?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/unpopul...