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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 934,991 ratings
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
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3.67 avg rating — 4,559 ratings
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The Pineapple: King of Fruits
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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3.86 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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The Animal's Companion: People & Their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story
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3.67 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Handshake: A Gripping History
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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
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Shakespeare and Precious Stones
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Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
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Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
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The Secret Life of Flies
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Drive-In Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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3.67 avg rating — 5,473 ratings
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Tom Smith's Christmas Crackers: An Illustrated History
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Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture, 26)
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4.18 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
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3.56 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Rock Landscapes - The Pulham Legacy: Rock Gardens, Grottoes, Ferneries, Follies, Fountains and Garden Ornaments
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The Story of V : Opening Pandora's Box
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3.86 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Antiques Magpie: A Fascinating Compendium of Absorbing History, Stories, Facts and Anecdotes from the World of Antiques
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3.54 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
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3.90 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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3.83 avg rating — 5,010 ratings
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Who Built the Moon?
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3.72 avg rating — 848 ratings
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Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science
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3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland
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4.12 avg rating — 5,675 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 124,615 ratings
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Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask
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3.54 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
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4.18 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
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3.79 avg rating — 10,570 ratings
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Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
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3.98 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
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3.82 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
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4.02 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
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3.54 avg rating — 794 ratings
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Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
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3.55 avg rating — 504 ratings
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The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School
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3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
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4.03 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
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The Book of Heroic Failures: The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain
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3.85 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Transport in Britain: From Canal Lock To Gridlock
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Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities
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Thrilling Stories of the Railway
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The Tales of Max Carrados
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3.27 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Mail Obsession: A journey around Britain by postcode
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3.81 avg rating — 313 ratings
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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence
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3.92 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Haunted Britain and Ireland: Over 100 of the Scariest Places to Visit in the UK and Ireland
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3.68 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Ziggyology: A Brief History Of Ziggy Stardust
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Otter
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KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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3.89 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Coryat's Crudities, Vol. 1: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia Commonly Called the Grisons Country, Helvetia ... Germany and the Netherlands
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Practical Surgery: With 130 Engravings On Wood
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God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
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3.67 avg rating — 7,828 ratings
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
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Running Through the Ages
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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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4.46 avg rating — 35,842 ratings
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The Land Before Avocado
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3.91 avg rating — 4,338 ratings
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Twin Tracks: The Autobiography
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The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes
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3.70 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Famous Impostors
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Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
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4.25 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion
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The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
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Primates of Gashaka: Socioecology and Conservation in Nigeria’s Biodiversity Hotspot (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, 35)
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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3.99 avg rating — 98,712 ratings
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The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design
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Sorry!: The English and Their Manners
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Act of Oblivion
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Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
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Darts in England, 1900–39: A social history
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
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3.74 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
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Old Church Life: Courts Held, Christmastide Customs, Compulsory Attendance, Outrageous Conduct And War Time
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Memoirs
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The Madman's Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art
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4.27 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
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Stars and Spies: The story of Intelligence Operations...
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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
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Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
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3.95 avg rating — 3,698 ratings
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
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Great Theatrical Disasters
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (Camphor Classics Book 3)
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2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913
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Tennis's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis (Strangest series)
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The American Way of Death
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Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert
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4.36 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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