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24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

10 24 Hours in Ancient History

2019 • 7 Readers 3.7

24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

10 24 Hours in Ancient History

2020 • 11 Readers 3

24 Hours in Ancient Rome

11 24 Hours in Ancient History

24 Hours in Ancient Rome
ByPhilip Matyszak

2017 • 24 Readers • 272 pages 4.1

African Europeans

African Europeans
ByOlivette Otele

2019 • 15 Readers • 288 pages

A General History of the Pyrates

1724 • 13 Readers • 733 pages 3.3

Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

2023 • 5 Readers

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

2020 • 29 Readers • 304 pages 3.3

An Edible History of Humanity

2009 • 27 Readers • 288 pages 3.4

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching

2021 • 21 Readers • 249 pages 4.5

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

2023 • 28 Readers 3

As Always, Julia

As Always, Julia
ByJoan Reardon,Avis DeVoto

2010 • 3 Readers • 432 pages 4

A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches

2016 • 4 Readers • 194 pages

A Wolf Called Romeo

2014 • 7 Readers • 288 pages

A Woman Among Wolves

A Woman Among Wolves
ByDiane K Boyd

2024 • 2 Readers

Beasts Before Us

Beasts Before Us
ByElsa Panciroli

2021 • 9 Readers • 320 pages 4

Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

2016 • 6 Readers • 336 pages 3

Below the Edge of Darkness

2021 • 24 Readers • 352 pages 4

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

2024 • 14 Readers 3.8

Black and British: A Forgotten History

42 Readers 4.3

Black Flags, Blue Waters

Black Flags, Blue Waters
ByEric Jay Dolin

2018 • 36 Readers • 400 pages 3.2

Black Tudors

Black Tudors
ByMiranda Kaufmann

2017 • 19 Readers • 384 pages 4

Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color

2019 • 6 Readers • 226 pages 5

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

2023 • 55 Readers • 464 pages 4.8

Book and Dagger

Book and Dagger
ByElyse Graham

2024 • 18 Readers • 376 pages 3.5

Born to Be Hanged

Born to Be Hanged
ByKeith Thomson

2022 • 24 Readers • 400 pages 3.5

Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants

24 Readers • 7h 16m 4.8

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 732 Readers • 391 pages 4.5

Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

2018 • 20 Readers • 256 pages 4.5

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

2017 • 46 Readers • 384 pages 4.2

Cannibalism

Cannibalism
ByBill Schutt

2017 • 86 Readers • 332 pages 4.1

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

2023 • 45 Readers • 384 pages 4.6

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart
ByMichelle Zauner

2021 • 1,361 Readers • 239 pages 4.2

Crypt

Crypt
ByAlice Roberts

2023 • 3 Readers 4

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

2021 • 672 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

Dark Archives

Dark Archives
ByMegan Rosenbloom

2020 • 97 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Darwin Comes to Town

Darwin Comes to Town
ByMenno Schilthuizen

2018 • 18 Readers • 304 pages 4.3

Deep Sea: 10 Things You Should Know

10 10 Things You Should Know

2023 • 2 Readers • 128 pages

Down from the Mountain

Down from the Mountain
ByBryce Andrews

2020 • 3 Readers • 288 pages

Everybody Has a Podcast

Everybody Has a Podcast
ByJustin McElroy,Travis McElroy,+1 more

2021 • 22 Readers • 222 pages 4.4

Explaining Humans

Explaining Humans
ByCamilla Pang

2020 • 25 Readers • 256 pages 3.5

Eye of the Shoal

Eye of the Shoal
ByHelen Scales

2018 • 7 Readers • 320 pages

Fathoms: The World in the Whale

2020 • 28 Readers • 352 pages 3.3

Femina

Femina
ByJanina Ramírez

57 Readers 3.8

Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir

2023 • 21 Readers • 250 pages 3.8

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2020 • 32 Readers • 224 pages 4.2

Fox & I: an uncommon friendship

2021 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

Frostbite

Frostbite
ByNicola Twilley

2024 • 18 Readers • 401 pages

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

1988 • 6 Readers • 210 pages 4

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

7 Readers 4.5

How the Post Office Created America: A History

2016 • 22 Readers • 338 pages 3.5

How to Be a Good Creature A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

2018 • 60 Readers • 219 pages 3.6

How To Be a Tudor

#2 of 3 in How to Be

How To Be a Tudor
ByRuth Goodman

2015 • 17 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

How to be a Victorian

#1 of 3 in How to Be

How to be a Victorian
ByRuth Goodman

2013 • 61 Readers • 464 pages 4.3

How To Survive A Plague

2013 • 59 Readers • 624 pages 4.6

In the Kitchen

In the Kitchen
ByJuliet Annan,Yemisi Aribisala,+11 more

2020 • 15 Readers • 178 pages 4

Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

2018 • 6 Readers • 256 pages 4.5

Life on the Rocks

Life on the Rocks
ByJuli Berwald

2022 • 11 Readers • 352 pages 4.5

Midnight Chicken

Midnight Chicken
ByElla Risbridger

2019 • 30 Readers • 288 pages 4.5

More Home Cooking

More Home Cooking
ByLaurie Colwin

1993 • 2 Readers • 244 pages

My Life in France

My Life in France
ByJulia Child

2006 • 107 Readers • 414 pages 4

Never Home Alone

2018 • 19 Readers • 336 pages 4.7

Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper

2017 • 4 Readers • 288 pages 4

Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us

2015 • 1 Reader

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

2023 • 31 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

2022 • 2 Readers

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

2016 • 240 Readers • 272 pages 3.6

Our Dogs, Ourselves

Our Dogs, Ourselves
ByAlexandra Horowitz

2020 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

Out There

Out There
ByMichael Wall

2018 • 3 Readers • 256 pages 3

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

2023 • 153 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Phallacy

Phallacy
ByEmily Willingham

2020 • 3 Readers • 338 pages 4

Pirate Women

Pirate Women
ByLaura Sook Duncombe

2017 • 25 Readers • 264 pages 3.3

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

2023 • 1 Reader

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

2024 • 10 Readers • 264 pages 2.5

PROVENCE, 1970

PROVENCE, 1970
ByLuke Barr

2013 • 4 Readers • 320 pages 4

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Rabid
ByMonica Murphy, Bill Wasik

14 Readers 3

Raw Dog

Raw Dog
ByJamie Loftus

2023 • 65 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

Recipe for a Kinder Life

Recipe for a Kinder Life
ByAnnie Smithers

2021 • 2 Readers • 318 pages

Rose

Rose
ByRosina Harrison

1975 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

Salt: A World History

Salt: A World History
ByMark Kurlansky

2002 • 344 Readers • 496 pages 3.6

Sea Shanties: The Lyrics and History of Sailor Songs

2021 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Servants

Servants
ByLucy Lethbridge

2013 • 11 Readers • 400 pages 3.7

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

29 Readers 4.3

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

2023 • 42 Readers • 321 pages 4.6

Something in the Woods Loves You

2024 • 21 Readers • 375 pages 5

Space: 10 Things You Should Know

10 10 Things You Should Know

2019 • 10 Readers • 120 pages 5

Spying on Whales

Spying on Whales
ByNick Pyenson

2018 • 37 Readers • 336 pages 3