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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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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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The Book on the Bookshelf
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
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The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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Mongo: Adventures in Trash
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth – The Greatest Scientific Find of the Century: An Extinct Prehistoric Creature
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
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The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome
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In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature
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3.69 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
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3.37 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Sagrada Familia: Gaudí's Heaven on Earth
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3.56 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
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Walter Potter and His Museum of Curious Taxidermy
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The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal
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Clara's Grand Tour : Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
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The Mirror
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
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Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Claire's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saintly Relics
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Solitary Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation
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The White Nile
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4.12 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Blue Nile
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Gallipoli
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Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
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Migraine
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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections, 15)
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A Queer History of the United States
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
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Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
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Paris Under Water: how the City of Light survived the great flood of 1910
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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
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Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies
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The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture
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3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Entering The Stone: On Caves And Feeling Through The Dark
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Discovery at Rosetta: The Stone that Unlocked the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
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3.94 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
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Home: A Short History of an Idea
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The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
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3.71 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America
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3.98 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
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3.93 avg rating — 737 ratings
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