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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,251 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,437 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,918 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 — 121,472 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 — 55,959 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 — 10,271 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,371 ratings — published 2010
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 — 55,901 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 — 5,366 ratings — published 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,993 ratings — published 1995
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,536 ratings — published 2005
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,931 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 — 11,841 ratings — published 2012
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 — 752,765 ratings — published 2003
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,451 ratings — published 2003
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,062 ratings — published 2016
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 — 36,988 ratings — published 2010
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 566 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,917 ratings — published 2010
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,559 ratings — published 2004
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 — 22,340 ratings — published 2017
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,922 ratings — published 2010
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 — 71,785 ratings — published 1999
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 555 ratings — published 2008
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,525 ratings — published 2010
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,257 ratings — published 2005
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,539 ratings — published 1996
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,237 ratings — published 2010
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 — 3,028 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 — 120,923 ratings — published 1994
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,764 ratings — published 2003
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,040 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 — 4,650 ratings — published 2004
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,893 ratings — published 2000
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,405 ratings — published 2004
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 623 ratings — published 1986
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 — 28,814 ratings — published 1999
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,043 ratings — published 2000
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 156,781 ratings — published 2025
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 — 4,904 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 162,133 ratings — published 1959
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 — 3,068 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 — 13,938 ratings — published 2017
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,927 ratings — published 1976
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,011 ratings — published 2015
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 — 2,915 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 — 13,912 ratings — published 2009
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,080 ratings — published 2001
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 457 ratings — published 2000
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as micro-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,503 ratings — published 2007
