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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,527 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,640 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,569 ratings — published 1997
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 97,712 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 — 120,918 ratings — published 1998
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,862 ratings — published 2010
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,710 ratings — published 2003
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,314 ratings — published 2007
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 — 55,442 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 — 55,279 ratings — published 2010
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,080 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,252 ratings — published 2010
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,873 ratings — published 2016
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,999 ratings — published 2015
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,839 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,389 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,613 ratings — published 1999
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,494 ratings — published 2007
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,144 ratings — published 2012
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 — 36,631 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 — 744,270 ratings — published 2003
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 551 ratings — published 2008
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,710 ratings — published 2008
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,544 ratings — published 2004
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,886 ratings — published 2000
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,746 ratings — published 1976
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 573 ratings — published 2007
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,527 ratings — published 2012
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,993 ratings — published 2001
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,477 ratings — published 2015
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,130 ratings — published 2004
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,637 ratings — published 2000
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,007 ratings — published 1999
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 50,847 ratings — published 2013
A History of the Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,641 ratings — published 2001
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,525 ratings — published 1996
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.61 — 558 ratings — published 1998
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,067 ratings — published 2005
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,704 ratings — published 2016
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,919 ratings — published 2017
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,284 ratings — published 2013
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,174 ratings — published 1983
A History of the Breast (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 578 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 — 3,643 ratings — published 2005
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,249 ratings — published 2003
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 4.10 — 3,033 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 — 2,036 ratings — published 1999
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,706 ratings — published 2000
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 121,591 ratings — published 2018
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 — 2,896 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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