Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World 3.90 avg rating — 30,145 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World 3.87 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation 3.71 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count 3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,822 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,460 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,689 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World 3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates 3.68 avg rating — 10,102 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World 3.84 avg rating — 38,202 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession 3.44 avg rating — 13,713 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,839 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime 3.60 avg rating — 2,822 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners 3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by: Mike Dash
4.16 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation 4.08 avg rating — 25,638 ratings
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash 3.76 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Necropolis: London and Its Dead 3.78 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Hotel: An American History
Hotel: An American History 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 4.14 avg rating — 10,151 ratings
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Virgin: The Untouched History
Virgin: The Untouched History 3.95 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit 3.96 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller 4.01 avg rating — 6,663 ratings
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Jewels: A Secret History
Jewels: A Secret History 4.14 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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How the States Got Their Shapes
How the States Got Their Shapes 3.54 avg rating — 3,874 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
Woman: An Intimate Geography 4.13 avg rating — 4,468 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 4.25 avg rating — 18,112 ratings
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places 3.62 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,837 ratings
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The Invention of Air
The Invention of Air 3.82 avg rating — 3,247 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,762 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,356 ratings
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Wanderlust: A History of Walking 3.90 avg rating — 6,237 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition 3.88 avg rating — 8,423 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 3.81 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash 3.82 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries 4.19 avg rating — 9,045 ratings
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World 3.96 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born 4.05 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality 3.78 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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The Coffee House: A Cultural History
The Coffee House: A Cultural History 3.66 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars 4.06 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,622 ratings
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler 4.35 avg rating — 4,448 ratings
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The Story of Corn
The Story of Corn 3.55 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ 4.08 avg rating — 53,719 ratings
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World 3.99 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story 4.15 avg rating — 17,726 ratings
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 4.05 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce 4.06 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire 4.28 avg rating — 2,764 ratings
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw 3.68 avg rating — 761 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America 4.14 avg rating — 17,867 ratings
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them 3.31 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Charlatan
Charlatan 3.82 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,283 ratings
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Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid
Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid
by: Tim Ecott
3.69 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Food in History
Food in History 3.97 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes 3.76 avg rating — 738 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story 4.05 avg rating — 5,875 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,338 ratings
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A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America 3.10 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent 3.82 avg rating — 473 ratings
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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis 3.76 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 3.82 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects 4.19 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
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Thames: Sacred River
Thames: Sacred River 3.79 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution 3.65 avg rating — 2,595 ratings
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf 3.63 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating — 46,527 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number 3.80 avg rating — 6,219 ratings
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The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam 4.02 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,586 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating — 93,074 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes
The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes 3.68 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics)
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics) 3.54 avg rating — 278 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 3.79 avg rating — 7,186 ratings
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History 3.78 avg rating — 2,766 ratings
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History 3.88 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
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Spoils of the Moon
Spoils of the Moon 4.30 avg rating — 44 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
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Hunger: An Unnatural History
Hunger: An Unnatural History 3.75 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It 3.68 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,487 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,013 ratings
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The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime 3.92 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 3.87 avg rating — 6,879 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us 3.71 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks 3.96 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America 3.76 avg rating — 5,653 ratings
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