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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,464 ratings 
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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Simon Winchester
3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings 8. 
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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Peter Ackroyd
3.46 avg rating — 3,285 ratings 
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,489 ratings 
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.73 avg rating — 10,296 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,030 ratings 16. 
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
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Joan DeJean
3.83 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 16. 
Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird 3.82 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,341 ratings 
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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Paul Stamets
4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings 22. 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings 23. 
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
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Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,525 ratings 
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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Anne Mendelson
3.62 avg rating — 550 ratings 24. 
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
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John Gaudet
3.62 avg rating — 120 ratings 
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Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
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Steve Baldwin
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The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
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Tony Perrottet
3.53 avg rating — 457 ratings 
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The Secrets of Sand: A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand
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Gary Greenberg
4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers
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Josh Schafer
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
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Pietra Rivoli
3.69 avg rating — 2,924 ratings 
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The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
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Ian Cox
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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The Mammoth Book of Celebrity Murder: Murder Played Out in the Spotlight of Maximum Publicity
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Chris Ellis
3.42 avg rating — 104 ratings 46. 
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
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Paul Stamets
4.40 avg rating — 1,036 ratings 46. 
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician 3.85 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets
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Fiona Rule
3.86 avg rating — 80 ratings 
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times
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Lucy Lethbridge
3.69 avg rating — 1,440 ratings 
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One Red Paperclip: The Story of How One Man Changed His Life One Swap at a Time
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Kyle Macdonald
3.52 avg rating — 1,297 ratings 
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Creepiosity: A Hilarious Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy
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David Bickel
3.12 avg rating — 557 ratings 70. 
The Little Book of Forest Bathing: Find Peace And Happiness With The Healing Power of Trees
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Summersdale
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 77. 
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The Business of Enlightenment: Publishing History of the "Encyclopédie," 1775-1800
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Robert Darnton
3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
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Thad Carhart
3.98 avg rating — 6,514 ratings 77. 
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The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: A Celebration of Creative Punctuation
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Bethany Keeley
3.67 avg rating — 655 ratings 77. 
The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
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Sarah Everts
3.82 avg rating — 1,168 ratings 84. 
The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
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David Skinner
3.13 avg rating — 381 ratings 84. 
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Mark Kurlansky
3.92 avg rating — 24,362 ratings 84. 
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VHS: Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era
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Joe Pickett
3.84 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
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Daniella Martin
3.86 avg rating — 506 ratings 90. 
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 90. 
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will 4.23 avg rating — 4,768 ratings
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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Grady Hendrix
4.26 avg rating — 11,487 ratings 90. 
The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
by:
John Waller
3.46 avg rating — 871 ratings 97. 
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
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Peter Laufer
3.55 avg rating — 537 ratings 97. 
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
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Bess Lovejoy
3.84 avg rating — 2,083 ratings 97. 
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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Larry Zuckerman
3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings 97. 