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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 20 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.70 — 46,774 ratings — published 2002
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by Katherine Ashenburg (shelved 12 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,958 ratings — published 2007
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 12 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,955 ratings — published 1998
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 12 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,869 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 11 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,438 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 11 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,247 ratings — published 1997
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by Victoria Finlay (shelved 11 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 31,044 ratings — published 2003
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by Dan Koeppel (shelved 10 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,196 ratings — published 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 9 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,875 ratings — published 1995
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by Tom Standage (shelved 9 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.70 — 9,733 ratings — published 2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 9 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 217,118 ratings — published 2002
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 8 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,076 ratings — published 2010
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by Steven Johnson (shelved 7 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,531 ratings — published 2006
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 7 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,446 ratings — published 2001
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Paperback)
by Robert Sullivan (shelved 7 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,451 ratings — published 2004
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
by Stephanie Coontz (shelved 7 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,647 ratings — published 2005
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by Deborah Blum (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,333 ratings — published 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies (Hardcover)
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,769 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,101 ratings — published 2008
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by Mark Pendergrast (Goodreads Author) (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.57 — 175 ratings — published 1999
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (Paperback)
by Amy Butler Greenfield (Goodreads Author) (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,261 ratings — published 2005
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by John M. Barry (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,920 ratings — published 2004
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by Karen Abbott (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.54 — 11,520 ratings — published 2007
A History of the Wife (Paperback)
by Marilyn Yalom (shelved 6 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,634 ratings — published 2001
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,414 ratings — published 1999
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller (Paperback)
by Carlo Ginzburg (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,603 ratings — published 1976
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (Paperback)
by Simon Garfield (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,697 ratings — published 2000
The Calendar
by David Ewing Duncan (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.91 — 877 ratings — published 1998
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by Barbara Freese (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,001 ratings — published 2003
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (Paperback)
by Stewart Lee Allen (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,285 ratings — published 1999
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English (Hardcover)
by John H. McWhorter (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,029 ratings — published 2008
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Paperback)
by Mike Dash (shelved 5 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,248 ratings — published 1999
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 4 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,209 ratings — published 2003
