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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 76,815 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 240,531 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 25,153 ratings — published 1997
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,848 ratings — published 2003
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,880 ratings — published 1998
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,390 ratings — published 2007
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,828 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 114,473 ratings — published 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 98,591 ratings — published 2010
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 56,296 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.00 — 759,682 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 60,322 ratings — published 2008
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,966 ratings — published 2016
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 10,333 ratings — published 2012
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 3,060 ratings — published 1999
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,518 ratings — published 2007
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,788 ratings — published 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,979 ratings — published 1999
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 76,397 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56,333 ratings — published 2006
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 37,212 ratings — published 2010
Butts: A Backstory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,685 ratings — published 2022
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,663 ratings — published 2010
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,897 ratings — published 2018
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 12,062 ratings — published 2012
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 582 ratings — published 2007
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 558 ratings — published 2008
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,713 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 805,533 ratings — published 2010
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 4,557 ratings — published 2004
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 60,377 ratings — published 2010
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,564 ratings — published 2004
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,291 ratings — published 2022
The Library: A Fragile History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,020 ratings — published 2021
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 51,695 ratings — published 2013
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,599 ratings — published 2015
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 9,939 ratings — published 2017
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,310 ratings — published 2005
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42,635 ratings — published 2004
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 9,030 ratings — published 2020
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,195 ratings — published 2017
Virgin: The Untouched History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,454 ratings — published 2007
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 830 ratings — published 2012
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,937 ratings — published 2000
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,677 ratings — published 2004
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 14,133 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,082 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Wife: An Intellectually Vigorous Cultural History of Marriage―From Medieval Europe to Contemporary America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,654 ratings — published 2001
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,898 ratings — published 2000
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,269 ratings — published 2003
