Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/6036726-barbara">Barbara</a> (4 Lists)

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Salt by Mark Kurlansky

At Home by Bill Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Histories of the Everyday

380 books — 386 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Best Historical Mystery

2,343 books — 5,061 voters

Stiff by Mary Roach

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1,924 books — 2,291 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

Art & Artists in Fiction

1,013 books — 1,214 voters