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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,957 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,046 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,623 ratings — published 1997
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,343 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,877 ratings — published 1998
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,452 ratings — published 2007
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,269 ratings — published 2010
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,371 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 34,407 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,973 ratings — published 2006
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 63 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,064 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,055 ratings — published 2010
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,020 ratings — published 2016
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,027 ratings — published 2015
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,970 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,120 ratings — published 1995
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,495 ratings — published 2012
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,249 ratings — published 1999
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,547 ratings — published 2007
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,760 ratings — published 2008
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,722 ratings — published 2010
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 769,927 ratings — published 2003
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,581 ratings — published 2004
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 559 ratings — published 2008
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 585 ratings — published 2007
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,268 ratings — published 1976
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,910 ratings — published 2000
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,679 ratings — published 2015
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,941 ratings — published 2012
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,955 ratings — published 2004
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,087 ratings — published 1999
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,290 ratings — published 2013
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,902 ratings — published 2000
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,565 ratings — published 1996
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,224 ratings — published 2001
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 574 ratings — published 1998
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,274 ratings — published 2016
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,330 ratings — published 2013
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,415 ratings — published 2017
A History of the Wife: An Intellectually Vigorous Cultural History of Marriage―From Medieval Europe to Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,660 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,097 ratings — published 2005
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,940 ratings — published 2018
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,732 ratings — published 2005
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,486 ratings — published 1983
A History of the Breast (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 604 ratings — published 1997
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,292 ratings — published 2003
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,123 ratings — published 2015
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,092 ratings — published 1999
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,603 ratings — published 2004
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.17 — 120,836 ratings — published 2000
“History is not merely about kings and their wars. We should know the story of people at large-not necessarily only those of politicians or film stars. How else can we relate to the lives of people influenced by the socio-political milieu, beyond their control?”
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