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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 82,256 ratings — published 2002
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 35,421 ratings — published 2005
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 62,476 ratings — published 2010
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,560 ratings — published 2007
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 100,523 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 — 124,996 ratings — published 1998
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 26,387 ratings — published 1997
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,145 ratings — published 2016
Oranges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,160 ratings — published 1967
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 74,392 ratings — published 2003
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,804 ratings — published 2005
The Basque History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 5,887 ratings — published 1999
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 — 78,476 ratings — published 1995
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 310,780 ratings — published 2025
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,625 ratings — published 2020
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,934 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 — 786,873 ratings — published 2003
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,592 ratings — published 2004
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 — 58,348 ratings — published 2010
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 — 58,080 ratings — published 2006
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,121 ratings — published 2005
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 59,140 ratings — published 2006
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,539 ratings — published 2005
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,579 ratings — published 1996
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 250,550 ratings — published 2003
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,710 ratings — published 2022
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 977 ratings — published 2023
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,068 ratings — published 2021
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 434 ratings — published
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 9,436 ratings — published 2020
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 806 ratings — published 2020
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 856 ratings — published 2008
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,924 ratings — published 2000
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,059 ratings — published 2015
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,579 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 — 64,719 ratings — published 2005
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 75,899 ratings — published 1999
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,559 ratings — published 2004
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 460,736 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 833,605 ratings — published 2010
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 3,139 ratings — published 1999
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 1,572 ratings — published 2012
The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 757 ratings — published 2023
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,091 ratings — published 2022
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,948 ratings — published 2025
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,418 ratings — published 2021
Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,054 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 16,151 ratings — published 2020
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 15,255 ratings — published 2021
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,264 ratings — published 2024
