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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 77,320 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,055 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,373 ratings — published 1997
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,001 ratings — published 2003
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,420 ratings — published 2007
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,203 ratings — published 1998
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 34,115 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,233 ratings — published 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 98,943 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 20 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,584 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,464 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 60,510 ratings — published 2008
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,990 ratings — published 2016
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 10,410 ratings — published 2012
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,070 ratings — published 1999
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,535 ratings — published 2007
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as microhistories)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,105 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 — 76,363 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56,626 ratings — published 2006
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,847 ratings — published 2000
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,576 ratings — published 2012
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,753 ratings — published 2010
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 37,481 ratings — published 2010
Butts: A Backstory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,781 ratings — published 2022
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 584 ratings — published 2007
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 558 ratings — published 2008
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 3,721 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 810,140 ratings — published 2010
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,575 ratings — published 2004
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,595 ratings — published 2010
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,572 ratings — published 2004
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,366 ratings — published 2022
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,920 ratings — published 2018
The Library: A Fragile History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,068 ratings — published 2021
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,638 ratings — published 2015
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 10,048 ratings — published 2017
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,353 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 51,983 ratings — published 2013
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 42,805 ratings — published 2004
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,277 ratings — published 2003
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,307 ratings — published 2017
Virgin: The Untouched History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,453 ratings — published 2007
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 830 ratings — published 2012
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,956 ratings — published 2000
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,692 ratings — published 2004
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 14,172 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,086 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Wife: An Intellectually Vigorous Cultural History of Marriage―From Medieval Europe to Contemporary America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,658 ratings — published 2001
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
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as microhistories)
avg rating 3.60 — 910 ratings — published 2023
