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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 243,414 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,775 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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4.21 avg rating — 110,312 ratings
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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3.64 avg rating — 20,647 ratings
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The Cows (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 555 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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4.15 avg rating — 22,448 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,296 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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3.46 avg rating — 3,361 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 814,199 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,198 ratings
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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3.84 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,734 ratings
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Kings of the Jungle
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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3.74 avg rating — 10,518 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,997 ratings
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
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3.83 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
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3.81 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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4.11 avg rating — 31,946 ratings
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
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3.96 avg rating — 22,978 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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4.40 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,874 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 28,237 ratings
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Don't Drop the Coffin
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3.96 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic
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3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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3.62 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
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3.63 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.02 avg rating — 33,133 ratings
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Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
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3.53 avg rating — 461 ratings
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A Natural History of Latin
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3.68 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Clean
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3.71 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings
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What The Butt?!?
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4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
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4.02 avg rating — 745 ratings
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Fragonard Museum: The Écorchés
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Secrets of Sand: A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Poems of Poop
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
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3.41 avg rating — 874 ratings
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Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers
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4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
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4.03 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,479 ratings
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The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
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3.81 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs
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3.56 avg rating — 558 ratings
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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
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3.69 avg rating — 2,985 ratings
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Lenin's Embalmers
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3.75 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Aroma
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The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle
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4.06 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders
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4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Cluck! : The True Story of Chickens in the Cinema
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4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Celebrity Murder: Murder Played Out in the Spotlight of Maximum Publicity
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3.45 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
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4.39 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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3.71 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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3.86 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets
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3.86 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Menstruation: A Cultural History
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 68,371 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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4.08 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
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The Frank Ritza Papers
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3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Naked Hiking
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Mind of the Raven
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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3.78 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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3.71 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design
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3.99 avg rating — 609 ratings
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The Little Book of Irish Beards
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times
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3.69 avg rating — 1,468 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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3.86 avg rating — 10,458 ratings
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One Red Paperclip: The Story of How One Man Changed His Life One Swap at a Time
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3.53 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln
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3.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Creepiosity: A Hilarious Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy
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3.12 avg rating — 561 ratings
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The Little Book of Forest Bathing: Find Peace And Happiness With The Healing Power of Trees
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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3.94 avg rating — 7,344 ratings
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The Business of Enlightenment: Publishing History of the "Encyclopédie," 1775-1800
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3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
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3.82 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
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3.98 avg rating — 6,656 ratings
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Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
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3.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: A Celebration of Creative Punctuation
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3.67 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
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3.82 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
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3.12 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,527 ratings
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Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere
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3.66 avg rating — 103 ratings
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A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
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4.01 avg rating — 91 ratings
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VHS: Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era
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3.83 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Strange Story of False Teeth
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3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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3.51 avg rating — 3,920 ratings
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Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
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3.85 avg rating — 513 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
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3.79 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,684 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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4.22 avg rating — 4,900 ratings
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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4.26 avg rating — 12,167 ratings
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The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
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3.47 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
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3.56 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
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3.85 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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3.62 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
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3.32 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Universal Foam: From Cappuccino to the Cosmos
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3.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
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