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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,808 ratings — published 2002
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,513 ratings — published 2003
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,153 ratings — published 1997
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,589 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,872 ratings — published 1998
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,459 ratings — published 2010
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,391 ratings — published 2007
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,845 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,825 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,329 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 60 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,292 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,466 ratings — published 2010
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,019 ratings — published 2015
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,966 ratings — published 2016
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,659 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,397 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,979 ratings — published 1999
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,332 ratings — published 2012
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 4.01 — 37,207 ratings — published 2010
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,517 ratings — published 2007
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,317 ratings — published 2008
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 759,615 ratings — published 2003
Spice: The History of a Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,564 ratings — published 2004
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.63 — 558 ratings — published 2008
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,039 ratings — published 1976
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 582 ratings — published 2007
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,059 ratings — published 2012
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,897 ratings — published 2000
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,600 ratings — published 2015
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,634 ratings — published 2004
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,133 ratings — published 2001
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,691 ratings — published 2013
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,788 ratings — published 2000
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,060 ratings — published 1999
The True History of Chocolate (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,546 ratings — published 1996
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 570 ratings — published 1998
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.16 — 186,248 ratings — published 2016
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,194 ratings — published 2017
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,309 ratings — published 2013
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 — 1,654 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,083 ratings — published 2005
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,712 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Breast (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 594 ratings — published 1997
The Return of Martin Guerre (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,358 ratings — published 1983
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,269 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,003 ratings — published 2000
Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,897 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 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,085 ratings — published 2015
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,067 ratings — published 1999
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as microhistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,369 ratings — published 2010
“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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