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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 76,431 ratings — published 2002
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,633 ratings — published 2005
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,599 ratings — published 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 98,345 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 121,588 ratings — published 1998
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 72,643 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 25,021 ratings — published 1997
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 239,118 ratings — published 2003
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 56,021 ratings — published 2010
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,696 ratings — published 2005
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,374 ratings — published 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 76,134 ratings — published 1995
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 170,452 ratings — published 2025
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 8,966 ratings — published 2020
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,893 ratings — published 2000
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 754,733 ratings — published 2003
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,940 ratings — published 2016
Oranges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,919 ratings — published 1967
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56,071 ratings — published 2006
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,079 ratings — published 2005
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 56,322 ratings — published 2006
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,539 ratings — published 1996
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,677 ratings — published 2020
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,565 ratings — published 2004
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,012 ratings — published 2015
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,510 ratings — published 2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 61,533 ratings — published 2005
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 72,007 ratings — published 1999
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42,485 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 420,570 ratings — published 2003
The Basque History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 5,603 ratings — published 1999
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 443,708 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 800,891 ratings — published 2010
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 172,980 ratings — published 2021
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 43,750 ratings — published 2024
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,560 ratings — published 2021
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,359 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 116,223 ratings — published 2021
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 23,119 ratings — published 2018
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 933 ratings — published 2021
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 10,999 ratings — published 2023
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 29,875 ratings — published 2022
Butts: A Backstory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,638 ratings — published 2022
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 411 ratings — published
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 134,159 ratings — published 2021
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 6,723 ratings — published 2020
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,303 ratings — published 2013
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 115,603 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 50,424 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 98,678 ratings — published 2019
