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#304

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

2012 • 10 Readers • 3.5

#305

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

2015 • 8 Readers • 273 pages • 3.3

#306

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

2011 • 4 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#307

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

#2 of 5 in Incerto

2007 • 383 Readers • 444 pages • 3.7

#308

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

2013 • 11 Readers • 428 pages • 3.7

#309

Incognito

2011 • 104 Readers • 3.9

#310

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

2009 • 149 Readers • 444 pages • 3.8

#311

Constantine the Emperor

2013 • 1 Reader • 385 pages

#312

Hallucinations

2012 • 115 Readers • 3.5

#313

Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

#3 of 5 in The History of England

2014 • 12 Readers • 502 pages • 3

#314

Jumbo: This being the true story of the world's greatest elephant

2008 • 1 Reader • 3

#315

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2011 • 1 Reader • 336 pages • 3

#316

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

2013 • 30 Readers • 277 pages • 4.4

#317

Cover 5

4 Readers • 5

#318

1776

2005 • 265 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

#319

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

2010 • 5 Readers • 2.8

#320

The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

2010 • 6 Readers • 768 pages • 5

#321

Think Like A Freak

2014 • 18 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

#322

Salt: A World History

2002 • 271 Readers • 496 pages • 3.7

#323

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

1997 • 67 Readers • 294 pages • 4.2

#324

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,052 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

#325

The Edge of the World

2014 • 5 Readers • 394 pages

#326

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

2014 • 53 Readers • 454 pages • 4.5

#327

Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients

2007 • 1 Reader • 4

#328

Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier

2007 • 1 Reader • 430 pages

#329

European History for Dummies

2006 • 2 Readers • 463 pages • 3.5

#330

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society

2010 • 5 Readers • 512 pages • 2

#331

It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History

2013 • 1 Reader • 224 pages • 2

#332

Atoms Under the Floorboards

1 Reader

#333

British history for dummies

#334

Cover 3

2012 • 1 Reader

#335

Joan of Arc: A History

2014 • 7 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

#336

Cover 4

2015 • 3 Readers • 316 pages

#337

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

2014 • 1 Reader • 384 pages • 4

#338

A Concise History of Modern Europe

2011 • 1 Reader

#339

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks

2013 • 40 Readers • 400 pages • 10h 16m • 4

#340

Coined

#341

The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession

2014 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 3

#342

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

1995 • 49 Readers • 466 pages • 3.5

#343

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

2003 • 6 Readers • 3

#344

What are the Seven Wonders of the World?

1998 • 561 pages

#345

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth

2014 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#346

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

2015 • 3 Readers • 300 pages • 2.5

#347

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

2010 • 2 Readers • 234 pages • 2

#348

Packing for Mars

2010 • 147 Readers • 334 pages • 4

#349

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1 Reader

#350

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

2000 • 211 Readers • 340 pages • 4.1

#351

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

2002 • 117 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

#352

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

2001 • 6 Readers • 3

#353

Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

2015 • 4 Readers • 400 pages • 3

#354

The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

2014 • 2 Readers • 383 pages • 3

#355

The Planets

2005 • 25 Readers • 6 pages • 3.2

#356

George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

2013 • 2 Readers • 330 pages • 3

#357

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity

2015 • 1 Reader • 12 pages • 4

#358

A is for Arsenic

2015 • 15 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

#359

A Little History of the United States

2016 • 6 Readers • 344 pages • 4.3

#360

The Making of Home

2014 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 4

#361

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

1998 • 10 Readers • 152 pages • 3

#362

Making a Point

2015 • 2 Readers • 378 pages • 4

#363

The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

2015 • 6 Readers • 434 pages • 3

#364

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

2009 • 4 Readers • 4

#365

Cover 1

3 Readers • 1

#366

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

2014 • 3 Readers • 3

#367

Women of the Renaissance

Women in Culture and Society

1991 • 1 Reader • 351 pages • 3

#368

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

2001 • 34 Readers • 4

#369

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

2015 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 2

#370

Yes, My Accent Is Real - and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You

2015 • 12 Readers • 245 pages • 4

#371

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

2015 • 2 Readers • 3

#372

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

2015 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

#373

Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers

2015 • 8 Readers • 284 pages • 2.8

#374

The Witches: Salem, 1692

2015 • 108 Readers • 498 pages • 3.1

#375

Cover 1

2015 • 1 Reader • 3

#376

Suspicious Minds

2015 • 3 Readers • 304 pages

#377

The axe and the oath

1 Reader

#378

Cover 1

2013 • 1 Reader • 3

#379

Dynasty

2015 • 44 Readers • 512 pages • 4

#380

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

2014 • 3 Readers • 280 pages • 3

#381

Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

2015 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#382

It Ended Badly

2015 • 9 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#383

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

2015 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

#384

Cover 7

2015 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

#385

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

1 • 407 Readers • 4

#386

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

2015 • 4 Readers • 416 pages • 3

#387

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

2015 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 3

#388

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 566 Readers • 303 pages • 3.9

#389

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

2015 • 1 Reader • 432 pages • 4

#390

The Medici

2003 • 1 Reader

#391

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

2014 • 81 Readers • 392 pages • 3.9

#392

You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

2015 • 3 Readers • 453 pages

#393

Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

2016 • 4 Readers • 324 pages • 3

#394

Cover 0

2007 • 1 Reader • 5

#395

Cover 8

2013 • 2 Readers

#396

Hair: A Human History

2016 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

#397

Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation

2015 • 2 Readers • 436 pages • 3

#398

Cover 4

2015 • 5 Readers • 400 pages • 3

#399

Paper

2017 • 14 Readers • 416 pages • 3.3

#400

The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

2016 • 2 Readers • 391 pages • 3

#401

The Age of Genius

2016 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

#402

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

2013 • 6 Readers • 551 pages • 4

#403

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

2016 • 89 Readers • 784 pages • 4.1

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