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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 78,658 ratings — published 2002
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 34,794 ratings — published 2005
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 62,245 ratings — published 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 99,777 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 — 123,744 ratings — published 1998
Oranges (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,089 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 — 57,571 ratings — published 2010
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,757 ratings — published 2005
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,477 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 — 77,631 ratings — published 1995
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 25,924 ratings — published 1997
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 275,967 ratings — published 2025
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,921 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 — 776,599 ratings — published 2003
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,059 ratings — published 2016
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 73,671 ratings — published 2003
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57,369 ratings — published 2006
The Basque History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 5,761 ratings — published 1999
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,107 ratings — published 2005
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 58,321 ratings — published 2006
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,570 ratings — published 1996
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 246,435 ratings — published 2003
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,354 ratings — published 2020
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 9,322 ratings — published 2020
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 784 ratings — published 2020
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,587 ratings — published 2004
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,037 ratings — published 2015
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,562 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 — 63,682 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 — 74,666 ratings — published 1999
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,208 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 — 454,661 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 822,540 ratings — published 2010
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,433 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 15,796 ratings — published 2020
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,035 ratings — published 2024
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,739 ratings — published 2021
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,622 ratings — published 2022
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,030 ratings — published 2021
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 12,671 ratings — published 2023
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,234 ratings — published 2022
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 427 ratings — published
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 7,056 ratings — published 2020
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,342 ratings — published 2013
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 54,418 ratings — published 2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 103,476 ratings — published 2019
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,528 ratings — published 2013
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 839 ratings — published 2008
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,723 ratings — published 2015
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,870 ratings — published 2000
