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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,251 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,437 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,918 ratings — published 1997
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,237 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,472 ratings — published 1998
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,371 ratings — published 2010
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,366 ratings — published 2007
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,451 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,536 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,959 ratings — published 2006
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 61 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,901 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,920 ratings — published 2010
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,931 ratings — published 2016
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,011 ratings — published 2015
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,525 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,993 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,814 ratings — published 1999
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,271 ratings — published 2012
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,503 ratings — published 2007
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,988 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 752,766 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,066 ratings — published 2008
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 555 ratings — published 2008
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,559 ratings — published 2004
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,927 ratings — published 1976
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,893 ratings — published 2000
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,841 ratings — published 2012
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 575 ratings — published 2007
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,080 ratings — published 2001
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,717 ratings — published 2000
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,405 ratings — published 2004
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,545 ratings — published 2015
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,340 ratings — published 2013
A History of the Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,651 ratings — published 2001
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,040 ratings — published 1999
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,539 ratings — published 1996
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.61 — 566 ratings — published 1998
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,078 ratings — published 2005
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,300 ratings — published 2013
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,063 ratings — published 2016
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,098 ratings — published 2017
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,299 ratings — published 1983
A History of the Breast (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 592 ratings — published 1997
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,682 ratings — published 2005
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,260 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,044 ratings — published 2000
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,877 ratings — published 2018
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,068 ratings — published 2015
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,057 ratings — published 1999
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,915 ratings — published 2000
“History is not merely about kings and their wars. We should know the story of people at large-not necessarily only those of politicians or film stars. How else can we relate to the lives of people influenced by the socio-political milieu, beyond their control?”
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