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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 75,904 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,069 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,762 ratings — published 1997
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 — 121,172 ratings — published 1998
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 72,254 ratings — published 2003
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,344 ratings — published 2007
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 97,992 ratings — published 2010
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,310 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 112,640 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)
by (shelved 20 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,623 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.00 — 748,605 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 59,889 ratings — published 2008
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 10,216 ratings — published 2012
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,911 ratings — published 2016
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,026 ratings — published 1999
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,501 ratings — published 2007
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,721 ratings — published 1999
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 — 55,720 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 — 36,799 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,707 ratings — published 1995
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 573 ratings — published 2007
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 553 ratings — published 2008
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,680 ratings — published 2000
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 59,883 ratings — published 2010
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,996 ratings — published 2022
Butts: A Backstory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,554 ratings — published 2022
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 11,703 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 795,239 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 — 4,515 ratings — published 2004
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,870 ratings — published 2018
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,211 ratings — published 2010
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,662 ratings — published 2005
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,550 ratings — published 2004
The Library: A Fragile History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,924 ratings — published 2021
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,508 ratings — published 2015
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 51,099 ratings — published 2013
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,272 ratings — published 2004
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 9,708 ratings — published 2017
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,025 ratings — published 2017
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,007 ratings — published 2015
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,223 ratings — published 2005
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 43,890 ratings — published 1990
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.64 — 822 ratings — published 2012
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,631 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 — 14,042 ratings — published 2001
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 59,015 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,073 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Wife (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,648 ratings — published 2001
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,256 ratings — published 2003
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,639 ratings — published 2022
