Standard Deviation | Rating | Title |
| 1.217 | 2.83 | Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism by Thomas Kohnstamm |
| 1.18 | 3.48 | Honeymoon with My Brother: A Memoir by Franz Wisner |
| 1.132 | 4.06 | Europe Central by William Vollmann |
| 1.103 | 3.64 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire |
| 1.102 | 3.29 | Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart |
| 1.085 | 3.37 | No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (Adventura Books Series) by Ayun Halliday |
| 1.053 | 4.31 | Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace |
| 1.018 | 3.91 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1.016 | 3.58 | The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp |
| 1.011 | 3.63 | The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros |
| 1.01 | 3.9 | Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 1.003 | 3.61 | Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi |
| 0.999 | 3.48 | The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart |
| 0.991 | 3.73 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs* by Chuck Klosterman |
| 0.982 | 3.72 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain |
| 0.979 | 3.52 | Shopgirl by Steve Martin |
| 0.979 | 3.47 | Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald |
| 0.96 | 3.79 | Without Feathers by Woody Allen |
| 0.948 | 3.6 | Teacher Man by Frank McCourt |
| 0.939 | 3.71 | The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin |
| 0.931 | 3.67 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway |
| 0.924 | 3.62 | Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz |
| 0.92 | 3.75 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich |
| 0.919 | 3.54 | Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley |
| 0.906 | 3.35 | Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them by John Silverwood |
| 0.888 | 3.61 | Boomsday by Christopher Buckley |
| 0.887 | 3.4 | The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta |
| 0.887 | 3.9 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer |
| 0.885 | 4.07 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris |
| 0.884 | 3.96 | The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin |
| 0.877 | 3.25 | Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black |
| 0.876 | 3.33 | The Undutchables: An Observation of the Netherlands, Its Culture And Its Inhabitants by Colin White |
| 0.876 | 4.29 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhaíl Bulgakov |
| 0.875 | 3.87 | Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev |
| 0.87 | 3.18 | Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales) by Jennifer L. Leo |
| 0.865 | 4.18 | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott |
| 0.864 | 3.65 | The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell |
| 0.864 | 3.96 | She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| 0.863 | 3.29 | Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney |
| 0.862 | 4.09 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende |
| 0.861 | 4.26 | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore |
| 0.86 | 4.24 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon |
| 0.851 | 3.92 | The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost |
| 0.85 | 3.93 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris |
| 0.85 | 3.76 | Eva Luna by Isabel Allende |
| 0.845 | 4.12 | How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page |
| 0.843 | 4.15 | Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 0.842 | 3.64 | The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad |
| 0.836 | 4.16 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson |
| 0.835 | 4.4 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 0.832 | 4.02 | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson |
| 0.81 | 3.75 | Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin |
| 0.804 | 3.97 | In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson |
| 0.799 | 3.83 | Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl |
| 0.792 | 4.15 | Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum |
| 0.789 | 4.54 | The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
| 0.785 | 3.57 | Lust, Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang |
| 0.783 | 4.06 | A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck |
| 0.763 | 4.02 | The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell |
| 0.735 | 3.72 | Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
| 0.733 | 4.11 | Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenovna Ginzburg |
| 0.655 | 4.28 | Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov |