Controversial Books

This page shows your 100 most controversial books, as measured by the standard deviation of members star ratings. (This is also the source of the Zeitgeist category "25 Books People Can't Agree on.") To be included, a book must have been rated at least 20 times. Work titles are given.

Standard Deviation	Rating	Title
1.104	3.52	In Hazard by Richard Hughes
1.025	3.63	The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
1	3.99	Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi
0.947	3.43	The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel
0.943	3.66	The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche
0.926	4.01	Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
0.902	4.05	The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
0.893	4.14	The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
0.889	3.92	The Sea Wolf by Jack London
0.888	3.93	The Brendan Voyage by Timothy Severin
0.88	3.93	A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
0.866	3.88	Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
0.864	4.19	West With the Night by Beryl Markham
0.853	4.09	The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin
0.848	3.88	The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
0.844	3.9	Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
0.839	4.26	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
0.817	4.4	An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale
0.812	3.94	Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
0.809	4.35	Endurance by Alfred Lansing
0.806	4.07	South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
0.768	4.06	Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
0.76	3.59	My Old Man and the Sea by David Hays
0.681	4.02	Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick
0.622	3.91	The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
0.471	4.48	Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley

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