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Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing

1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (3.98 avg rating — 333,366 ratings) 2. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (3.73 avg rating — 38,395 ratings) 3. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (4.05 avg rating — 120,879 ratings) 4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (3.84 avg rating — 72,585 ratings) 5. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (3.91 avg rating — 25,718 ratings) 6. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (3.94 avg rating — 40,516 ratings) 7. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4.28 avg rating — 49,711 ratings) 8. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (4.19 avg rating — 112,226 ratings) 9. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (4.16 avg rating — 57,541 ratings) 10. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (3.93 avg rating — 13,378 ratings) 11. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (4.05 avg rating — 37,005 ratings) 12. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (4.04 avg rating — 31,331 ratings) 13. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (3.96 avg rating — 58,082 ratings) 14. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (3.94 avg rating — 628,831 ratings) 15. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (3.74 avg rating — 11,927 ratings) 16. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (3.99 avg rating — 19,036 ratings) 17. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (4.10 avg rating — 293,276 ratings) 18. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (3.95 avg rating — 14,840 ratings) 19. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach (3.82 avg rating — 40,159 ratings) 20. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (4.27 avg rating — 14,460 ratings) 21. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach (3.93 avg rating — 36,499 ratings) 22. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (3.98 avg rating — 118,548 ratings) 23. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (3.80 avg rating — 117,409 ratings) 24. Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay (3.72 avg rating — 35,812 ratings) 25. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (4.04 avg rating — 32,375 ratings) 26. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (3.66 avg rating — 26,466 ratings) 27. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester (3.86 avg rating — 12,991 ratings) 28. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne (4.12 avg rating — 20,899 ratings) 29. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (4.32 avg rating — 125,006 ratings) 30. The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester (3.82 avg rating — 9,420 ratings) 31. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (4.03 avg rating — 371,424 ratings) 32. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King (3.83 avg rating — 17,753 ratings) 33. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (4.00 avg rating — 24,445 ratings) 34. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel (3.75 avg rating — 2,760 ratings) 35. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (4.18 avg rating — 34,910 ratings) 36. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (4.01 avg rating — 41,087 ratings) 37. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (4.37 avg rating — 17,297 ratings) 38. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (4.30 avg rating — 31,919 ratings) 39. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (3.89 avg rating — 28,109 ratings) 40. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger (4.06 avg rating — 83,410 ratings) 41. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (4.18 avg rating — 34,870 ratings) 42. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield (3.78 avg rating — 20,687 ratings) 43. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (3.92 avg rating — 28,356 ratings) 44. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife (3.95 avg rating — 6,624 ratings) 45. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (3.59 avg rating — 11,168 ratings) 46. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast (3.65 avg rating — 1,569 ratings) 47. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (3.68 avg rating — 3,057 ratings) 48. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (4.10 avg rating — 13,007 ratings) 49. Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash (3.68 avg rating — 1,535 ratings) 50. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean (3.69 avg rating — 9,756 ratings) 51. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (3.92 avg rating — 7,127 ratings) 51. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt (3.69 avg rating — 5,850 ratings) 53. The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson (3.96 avg rating — 2,774 ratings) 54. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott (3.61 avg rating — 9,996 ratings) 55. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (3.57 avg rating — 26,628 ratings) 56. A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield (3.87 avg rating — 2,133 ratings) 57. Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese (3.70 avg rating — 1,423 ratings) 58. Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner (3.58 avg rating — 1,807 ratings) 59. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough (4.19 avg rating — 11,016 ratings) 60. Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse (3.82 avg rating — 412 ratings) 61. The Calendar by David Ewing Duncan (3.85 avg rating — 717 ratings) 62. Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages by Anne Mendelson (3.56 avg rating — 371 ratings) 63. How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer (3.76 avg rating — 9,643 ratings) 64. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max (3.88 avg rating — 3,803 ratings) 65. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant (4.05 avg rating — 4,372 ratings) 66. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (3.90 avg rating — 467,963 ratings) 67. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (3.96 avg rating — 3,966 ratings) 68. The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman (3.53 avg rating — 326 ratings) 69. The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe (3.79 avg rating — 834 ratings) 70. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (4.08 avg rating — 16,940 ratings) 71. Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats by Steve Ettlinger (3.33 avg rating — 1,925 ratings) 72. Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin (3.67 avg rating — 287 ratings) 73. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky (3.90 avg rating — 2,628 ratings) 74. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (4.20 avg rating — 52,893 ratings) 75. The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg (3.68 avg rating — 1,768 ratings) 76. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata (3.89 avg rating — 4,541 ratings) 77. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik (3.66 avg rating — 4,621 ratings) 78. A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom (3.81 avg rating — 1,152 ratings) 79. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski (3.76 avg rating — 419 ratings) 80. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (3.83 avg rating — 19,898 ratings) 81. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George (4.00 avg rating — 1,643 ratings) 82. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (4.42 avg rating — 40,408 ratings) 83. Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes (3.75 avg rating — 2,261 ratings) 84. Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton (3.80 avg rating — 2,750 ratings) 85. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson (3.86 avg rating — 2,308 ratings) 86. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (4.21 avg rating — 17,747 ratings) 87. No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald (4.00 avg rating — 447 ratings) 88. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann (4.05 avg rating — 11,285 ratings) 89. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World by Robert Lacey (3.87 avg rating — 3,966 ratings) 90. Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson (3.76 avg rating — 5,593 ratings) 91. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield (3.71 avg rating — 1,252 ratings) 92. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis (4.07 avg rating — 5,774 ratings) 93. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz (3.83 avg rating — 2,356 ratings) 94. The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage (3.88 avg rating — 2,011 ratings) 95. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto (4.12 avg rating — 5,852 ratings) 96. The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (3.66 avg rating — 999 ratings) 97. Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner (3.82 avg rating — 1,560 ratings) 98. History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom (3.89 avg rating — 314 ratings) 99. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky (3.76 avg rating — 1,675 ratings) 100. The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis (3.66 avg rating — 2,386 ratings) 101. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook (3.92 avg rating — 3,002 ratings) 102. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (4.35 avg rating — 50,760 ratings) 103. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby (3.87 avg rating — 4,161 ratings) 104. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault (4.21 avg rating — 17,327 ratings) 105. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (4.28 avg rating — 9,164 ratings) 106. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (3.93 avg rating — 24,033 ratings) 107. The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson (3.78 avg rating — 2,474 ratings) 108. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (4.20 avg rating — 41,988 ratings) 109. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky (3.84 avg rating — 2,701 ratings) 110. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (3.64 avg rating — 1,959 ratings) 111. Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier (4.14 avg rating — 3,506 ratings) 112. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz (3.93 avg rating — 1,921 ratings) 113. Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World by Jack Kelly (3.93 avg rating — 217 ratings) 114. The Story of Corn by Betty Fussell (3.52 avg rating — 82 ratings) 115. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly (3.68 avg rating — 5,908 ratings) 116. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte (3.74 avg rating — 1,314 ratings) 117. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (4.08 avg rating — 7,779 ratings) 118. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn (4.07 avg rating — 3,971 ratings) 119. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (3.99 avg rating — 12,802 ratings) 120. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (4.07 avg rating — 17,134 ratings) 121. The Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis (3.62 avg rating — 92 ratings) 122. The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager (4.23 avg rating — 1,556 ratings) 123. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz (3.80 avg rating — 1,437 ratings) 124. Food in History by Reay Tannahill (3.95 avg rating — 1,159 ratings) 125. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn (3.79 avg rating — 967 ratings) 126. For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose (3.71 avg rating — 1,800 ratings) 127. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg (3.95 avg rating — 2,445 ratings) 128. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (3.82 avg rating — 24,009 ratings) 129. Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold (3.73 avg rating — 1,171 ratings) 130. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman (4.13 avg rating — 5,555 ratings) 131. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (4.11 avg rating — 7,606 ratings) 132. Hotel: An American History by Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz (3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings) 133. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever (3.59 avg rating — 1,017 ratings) 134. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent (3.87 avg rating — 5,840 ratings) 135. Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay (4.11 avg rating — 890 ratings) 136. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash (4.12 avg rating — 1,837 ratings) 137. Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop (3.92 avg rating — 718 ratings) 138. Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent by John Reader (3.80 avg rating — 205 ratings) 139. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (4.22 avg rating — 8,804 ratings) 140. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr (3.98 avg rating — 378 ratings) 141. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (3.97 avg rating — 16,580 ratings) 142. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joël Glenn Brenner (4.04 avg rating — 1,370 ratings) 143. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (3.97 avg rating — 72,146 ratings) 144. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond (3.77 avg rating — 4,778 ratings) 145. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston (4.10 avg rating — 9,557 ratings) 146. Spoils of the Moon by Mark Shearman (4.91 avg rating — 22 ratings) 147. How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein (3.46 avg rating — 2,381 ratings) 148. Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell (3.76 avg rating — 356 ratings) 149. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (4.22 avg rating — 63,971 ratings) 150. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton (3.89 avg rating — 117 ratings) 151. The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (3.87 avg rating — 1,661 ratings) 152. Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (3.98 avg rating — 3,273 ratings) 152. One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski (3.66 avg rating — 420 ratings) 154. Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank (3.85 avg rating — 1,078 ratings) 155. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (4.27 avg rating — 114,756 ratings) 156. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (3.88 avg rating — 15,788 ratings) 157. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality by Hanne Blank (3.74 avg rating — 615 ratings) 158. Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd (3.80 avg rating — 730 ratings) 159. Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy (4.04 avg rating — 2,070 ratings) 159. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg (3.98 avg rating — 3,953 ratings) 161. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio (3.75 avg rating — 4,610 ratings) 162. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen (4.27 avg rating — 5,537 ratings) 163. Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock (3.81 avg rating — 2,026 ratings) 163. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett (3.87 avg rating — 959 ratings) 165. Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (3.81 avg rating — 28,738 ratings) 166. Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired by Benson Bobrick (4.02 avg rating — 292 ratings) 167. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes by Jay Feldman (3.77 avg rating — 413 ratings) 167. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett (3.38 avg rating — 7,404 ratings) 169. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein (3.74 avg rating — 1,284 ratings) 170. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash by Susan Strasser (3.74 avg rating — 244 ratings) 171. A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America by Mark Caldwell (3.08 avg rating — 113 ratings) 172. Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit (3.90 avg rating — 1,917 ratings) 173. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (3.86 avg rating — 26,197 ratings) 174. The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat by Carl Van Vechten (3.64 avg rating — 74 ratings) 175. The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester (4.03 avg rating — 941 ratings) 176. Beans: A History by Ken Albala (3.59 avg rating — 112 ratings) 177. Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell (3.67 avg rating — 1,008 ratings) 178. Among the Thugs by Bill Buford (4.07 avg rating — 4,953 ratings) 179. Oranges by John McPhee (4.08 avg rating — 1,664 ratings) 180. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It by Julie M. Fenster (3.59 avg rating — 167 ratings) 181. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (4.13 avg rating — 102 ratings) 182. The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson (3.69 avg rating — 189 ratings) 183. The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman (3.78 avg rating — 1,551 ratings) 183. Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas (3.84 avg rating — 2,188 ratings) 185. Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor (3.64 avg rating — 251 ratings) 185. The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium by Bernd Brunner (3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings) 187. Rats, Lice, and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals With the Life History of Typhus Fever by Hans Zinsser (4.11 avg rating — 337 ratings) 188. Moon: A Brief History by Bernd Brunner (3.22 avg rating — 41 ratings) 189. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (4.06 avg rating — 66,110 ratings) 190. Plagues and Peoples by William Hardy McNeill (3.89 avg rating — 3,077 ratings) 191. Negro Family in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier (4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings) 191. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan (4.05 avg rating — 9,242 ratings) 193. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford (4.08 avg rating — 977 ratings) 194. The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson (3.77 avg rating — 1,840 ratings) 194. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss (3.97 avg rating — 19,550 ratings) 196. Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski (3.92 avg rating — 910 ratings) 197. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (3.78 avg rating — 4,996 ratings) 197. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (3.56 avg rating — 6,047 ratings) 199. Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman (3.69 avg rating — 798 ratings) 200. Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone (3.84 avg rating — 2,976 ratings) 201. The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature by Richard Ellis (3.71 avg rating — 469 ratings) 202. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert W. Harms (3.81 avg rating — 151 ratings) 203. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (3.64 avg rating — 1,888 ratings) 204. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (3.56 avg rating — 494 ratings) 205. Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller (3.76 avg rating — 2,395 ratings) 206. Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster by Karen Tintori (3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings) 207. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton (3.86 avg rating — 141 ratings) 208. Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times by Don Kladstrup (3.86 avg rating — 283 ratings) 209. Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid by Tim Ecott (3.59 avg rating — 129 ratings) 209. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (3.97 avg rating — 10,903 ratings) 211. Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun (3.83 avg rating — 309 ratings) 212. Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization by W. Hodding Carter IV (3.65 avg rating — 235 ratings) 213. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch (3.73 avg rating — 675 ratings) 214. 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