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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,976 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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4.25 avg rating — 24,789 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,971 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 146,625 ratings
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Sarum: The Novel of England
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4.08 avg rating — 46,575 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 31,106 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 — 29,254 ratings
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
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3.60 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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The Undercover Economist
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3.81 avg rating — 29,774 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 44,816 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 27,617 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.88 avg rating — 35,666 ratings
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
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4.07 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
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3.69 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 904,008 ratings
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
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4.03 avg rating — 19,736 ratings
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A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypse
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3.44 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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3.87 avg rating — 8,674 ratings
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A History of Venice
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4.16 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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The Story of England
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4.06 avg rating — 448 ratings
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The World’s First Stock Exchange
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4.09 avg rating — 122 ratings
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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4.16 avg rating — 3,408 ratings
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
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3.75 avg rating — 949 ratings
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