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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,798 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,801 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 112,617 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 — 120,617 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,894 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,204 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,698 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 41,039 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 243,574 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 115,814 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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3.70 avg rating — 5,179 ratings
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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3.71 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 29,313 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
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4.02 avg rating — 10,751 ratings
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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3.83 avg rating — 5,656 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 — 5,792 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 94,737 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 12,842 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,063 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,542 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,725 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 — 479,540 ratings
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