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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,833 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,551 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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3.82 avg rating — 11,232 ratings
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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4.09 avg rating — 24,049 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,442 ratings
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The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 9,827 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,710 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,024 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 — 77,037 ratings
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
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3.77 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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The Tulip
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3.37 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,817 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 10,013 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 61,383 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 73,681 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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3.82 avg rating — 9,353 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.07 avg rating — 479,644 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 122,952 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,101 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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3.91 avg rating — 88,284 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 815,014 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 37,685 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,762 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 463,848 ratings
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