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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,558 ratings — published 2002
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 34,231 ratings — published 2005
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,854 ratings — published 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 99,098 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 — 122,412 ratings — published 1998
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 73,071 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 25,470 ratings — published 1997
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 242,873 ratings — published 2003
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 234,598 ratings — published 2025
Oranges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,996 ratings — published 1967
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 — 56,729 ratings — published 2010
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,726 ratings — published 2005
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,429 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 — 76,518 ratings — published 1995
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 9,143 ratings — published 2020
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,907 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 — 766,731 ratings — published 2003
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,004 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56,782 ratings — published 2006
The Basque History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 5,690 ratings — published 1999
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,090 ratings — published 2005
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 57,391 ratings — published 2006
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,557 ratings — published 1996
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol – A James Beard Award-Winning Nonfiction Book About Mixology and Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,648 ratings — published 2021
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,066 ratings — published 2020
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 763 ratings — published 2020
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,576 ratings — published 2004
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,022 ratings — published 2015
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,537 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 — 62,618 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 — 73,425 ratings — published 1999
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42,874 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 426,811 ratings — published 2003
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 449,373 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 812,621 ratings — published 2010
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,365 ratings — published 2005
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 10,489 ratings — published 2024
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 15,421 ratings — published 2020
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 182,434 ratings — published 2021
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,786 ratings — published 2024
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 48,909 ratings — published 2024
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,523 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 121,056 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 — 23,986 ratings — published 2018
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 978 ratings — published 2021
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 11,850 ratings — published 2023
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,555 ratings — published 2022
Butts: A Backstory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,822 ratings — published 2022
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 422 ratings — published
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 140,055 ratings — published 2021
