Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 3.92 avg rating — 8,412 ratings
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
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Trevor Corson
3.78 avg rating — 2,597 ratings 
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings 208. 
Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
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Deborah Hayden
3.76 avg rating — 440 ratings 
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,675 ratings 214. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,041 ratings 215. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,995 ratings 216. 
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,674 ratings 
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
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Toby Lester
4.06 avg rating — 1,359 ratings 219. 
The History of the Snowman: From the Ice Age to the Flea Market
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Bob Eckstein
3.35 avg rating — 299 ratings 219. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 221. 
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating — 24,070 ratings 223. 
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
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Russell Shorto
3.74 avg rating — 1,986 ratings 224. 
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume
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Tilar J. Mazzeo
3.51 avg rating — 1,219 ratings 
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The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
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Annie Leonard
4.08 avg rating — 4,343 ratings 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,947 ratings 
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans (Complete in One Volume) 4.12 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,581 ratings
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Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
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Hans Zinsser
4.02 avg rating — 566 ratings 
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The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
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Sandra Hempel
4.07 avg rating — 601 ratings 237. 
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Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World
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Sue Shephard
3.71 avg rating — 203 ratings 240. 
Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
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Don Kladstrup
4.05 avg rating — 663 ratings 
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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Kostya Kennedy
4.01 avg rating — 882 ratings 243. 
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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Lewis Mumford
4.10 avg rating — 1,453 ratings 
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,229 ratings 246. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 110,356 ratings 247. 
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad 3.53 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic 3.82 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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Tom Mueller
3.77 avg rating — 4,070 ratings 253. 
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
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John Tayman
3.81 avg rating — 2,293 ratings 254. 
The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium
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Bernd Brunner
3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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Stephen Puleo
4.02 avg rating — 5,025 ratings 259. 
The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games
by:
Tony Perrottet
3.76 avg rating — 418 ratings 260. 
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Jennifer 8. Lee
3.69 avg rating — 5,103 ratings 
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
by:
Adrienne Mayor
3.86 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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Mark Forsyth
3.95 avg rating — 2,506 ratings 266. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,270 ratings 
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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Katie Hickman
3.74 avg rating — 1,124 ratings 271. 
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
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Nancy Gibbs
4.16 avg rating — 10,638 ratings 272. 
Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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Alissa Hamilton
3.42 avg rating — 173 ratings 273. 
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings 273. 
The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace 3.43 avg rating — 977 ratings
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
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Dennis Smith
3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings 276. 
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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Richard Ellis
3.70 avg rating — 620 ratings 277. 
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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Helen Scales
4.10 avg rating — 995 ratings 278. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings 279. 
Lord High Executioner: An Unshamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
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Howard Engel
3.63 avg rating — 192 ratings 
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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Simon Garfield
3.69 avg rating — 4,417 ratings 282. 
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 550,986 ratings 283. 
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.93 avg rating — 1,828 ratings 283. 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings 285. 
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
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Mark Essig
4.15 avg rating — 861 ratings 
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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Robert Darnton
3.90 avg rating — 262 ratings 289. 
Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
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Mark Kurlansky
3.99 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 290. 
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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Donnie Eichar
3.99 avg rating — 25,503 ratings 291. 
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.99 avg rating — 5,000 ratings 293. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,218 ratings 
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,813 ratings 
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings 
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
by:
Jill Jonnes
4.07 avg rating — 2,652 ratings 