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A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
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3.64 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.79 avg rating — 72,801 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,738 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
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Black: The History of a Color
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4.10 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Blue: The History of a Color
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3.99 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
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Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef
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3.92 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
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3.69 avg rating — 389 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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4.17 avg rating — 11,483 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,825 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,264 ratings
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Hatless Jack
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3.72 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,126 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 44,210 ratings
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The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
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3.97 avg rating — 8,695 ratings
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Barbed Wire: A Political History
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3.61 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Spice: The History of a Temptation
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3.64 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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3.83 avg rating — 7,189 ratings
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Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
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3.69 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 240,267 ratings
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
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3.67 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
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3.64 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,132 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,728 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,290 ratings
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
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Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
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3.61 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The True History of Chocolate
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3.79 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
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3.93 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,269 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,846 ratings
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Jewels: A Secret History
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4.15 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes
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3.70 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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3.71 avg rating — 4,553 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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3.96 avg rating — 5,300 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,380 ratings
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The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees
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3.46 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours – How Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile, and Choler Shaped Western Medicine and Our Understanding of Self
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3.63 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
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3.77 avg rating — 586 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,961 ratings
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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3.83 avg rating — 5,624 ratings
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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3.75 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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3.76 avg rating — 69,099 ratings
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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3.66 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
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Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water
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3.71 avg rating — 325 ratings
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The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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4.21 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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3.57 avg rating — 8,309 ratings
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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
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3.25 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,601 ratings
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
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3.59 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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3.82 avg rating — 3,362 ratings
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Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire
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3.59 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Empire of Tea
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3.20 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine
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3.56 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,175 ratings
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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
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4.15 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
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3.72 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams
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3.74 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Crypts, Caves and Tunnels of London
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Nicholas: The Epic Journey from Saint to Santa Claus
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3.18 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Portland Vase: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure – A Beautiful Glass Enigma Through Emperors, Passion, and Centuries of Speculation
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3.81 avg rating — 73 ratings
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America
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3.85 avg rating — 620 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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3.80 avg rating — 6,257 ratings
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
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3.78 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
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3.42 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,362 ratings
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In Search of King Solomon's Mines
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3.80 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,207 ratings
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port & Most Original Town
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3.80 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 19,042 ratings
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Grayson
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3.67 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
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The Hudson: A History
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3.66 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
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3.24 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
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3.59 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Fishing in Utopia
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3.46 avg rating — 349 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
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3.45 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built
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3.63 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Searching for Lost City: On the Trail of America's Native Languages
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
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4.30 avg rating — 972 ratings
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McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
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3.82 avg rating — 11,072 ratings
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The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland
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3.87 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
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3.46 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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3.76 avg rating — 3,276 ratings
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
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3.77 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – The Last Account of the Vanishing Empire
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3.81 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
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3.72 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
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3.59 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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4.07 avg rating — 32,578 ratings
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
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3.27 avg rating — 618 ratings
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The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
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3.81 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,781 ratings
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
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4.22 avg rating — 12,620 ratings
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The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis
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3.83 avg rating — 562 ratings
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