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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (157), The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (115), The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (113), The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann (113), The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (80), The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs (158), The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester (111), Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich (83), Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (98), Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (135), Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (76), A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (170), The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond (113), The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (136), Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (226), The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (107), Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (115), The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (93), The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (78), The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (251), The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski (87), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (465), A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (77), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (104), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond (267)