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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,808 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,514 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,154 ratings — published 1997
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,873 ratings — published 1998
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,329 ratings — published 2006
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,332 ratings — published 2012
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,397 ratings — published 1995
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,292 ratings — published 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,460 ratings — published 2010
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,391 ratings — published 2007
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,825 ratings — published 2005
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,966 ratings — published 2016
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,059 ratings — published 2012
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,846 ratings — published 2003
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 759,622 ratings — published 2003
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,209 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,478 ratings — published 2010
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,693 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 186,251 ratings — published 2016
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,950 ratings — published 2010
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 570 ratings — published 1998
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,461 ratings — published 1999
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,589 ratings — published 2010
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,564 ratings — published 2004
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 165,832 ratings — published 1959
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,310 ratings — published 2005
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,064 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,606 ratings — published 1994
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 558 ratings — published 2008
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,060 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,677 ratings — published 2004
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 194,848 ratings — published 2025
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,897 ratings — published 2000
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,659 ratings — published 2010
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,019 ratings — published 2015
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,635 ratings — published 2004
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,546 ratings — published 1996
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 462 ratings — published 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,979 ratings — published 1999
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,875 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,002 ratings — published 2000
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,944 ratings — published 2016
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,694 ratings — published 2018
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,085 ratings — published 2015
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,062 ratings — published 2017
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,936 ratings — published 2000
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.44 — 14,000 ratings — published 2009
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,018 ratings — published 2005
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,517 ratings — published 2007
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 627 ratings — published 1986
