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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Salt: A World History
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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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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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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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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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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,202 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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3.76 avg rating — 5,239 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,084 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
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The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
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