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Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare?
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
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4.01 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.54 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Cats are not Peas: A Calico History of Genetics
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3.79 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels - From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe
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3.51 avg rating — 109 ratings
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
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3.85 avg rating — 5,769 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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3.91 avg rating — 44,208 ratings
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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3.87 avg rating — 106,414 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,262 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 — 121,821 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,125 ratings
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
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3.93 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 165,371 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,838 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,172 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 19,041 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.33 avg rating — 511 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 — 76,358 ratings
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The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
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3.85 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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3.59 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,206 ratings
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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3.85 avg rating — 39,137 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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3.85 avg rating — 14,573 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
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3.92 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,380 ratings
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Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
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3.72 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
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3.80 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
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3.93 avg rating — 668 ratings
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A Social History of Tea
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4.01 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
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3.64 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 3,058 ratings
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Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History
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4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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3.62 avg rating — 570 ratings
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The English Garden: A Social History
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4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Always Running : LA Vida Loca : Gang Days in L. A.
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4.04 avg rating — 8,488 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
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3.69 avg rating — 8,949 ratings
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Barbed Wire: A Political History
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3.61 avg rating — 125 ratings
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