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This Thing of Darkness
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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
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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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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 168,297 ratings
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Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
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3.97 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-Age Sport
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,394 ratings
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The Story of Corn
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Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC
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3.58 avg rating — 62 ratings
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
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The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Woman and the City, 1800-1860
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South America
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3.67 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,668 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,066 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 33,696 ratings
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Thames: Sacred River
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3.79 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,381 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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3.97 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
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3.31 avg rating — 262 ratings
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