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You Read a Book About What???

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Mary Roach
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Lynne Truss
Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky)
Salt: A World History
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Mark Kurlansky
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English... (Simon Winchester)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English...
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Simon Winchester
Bad Blood, Bad Blood, Book Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
Bad Blood, Bad Blood, Book Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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John Carreyrou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Mary Roach)
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Mary Roach
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Deborah Blum)
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Deborah Blum
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory (Caitlin Doughty)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory
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Caitlin Doughty
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Mary Roach)
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Mary Roach
The Mother Tongue
The Mother Tongue
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
So You Want to Talk About Race
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Ijeoma Oluo
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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Oliver Sacks
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
The Disappearing Spoon (Sam Kean)
The Disappearing Spoon
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Sam Kean
Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Mary Roach)
Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Mary Roach
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine (Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy)
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine
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Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy
Round Ireland With a Fridge (Tony Hawks)
Round Ireland With a Fridge
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Tony Hawks
The Year of Living Biblically
The Year of Living Biblically
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Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
Seabiscuit
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Laura Hillenbrand
Helen Keller: A Life (Dorothy Herrmann)
Helen Keller: A Life
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Dorothy Herrmann
Death's Acre (William Bass)
Death's Acre
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William Bass
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson
The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lepore)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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Jill Lepore
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (David Cordingly)
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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David Cordingly
Wicked Plants (Amy Stewart)
Wicked Plants
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Amy Stewart
The Ghost Map (Steven Johnson)
The Ghost Map
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Steven Johnson
Identical Strangers (Elyse Schein)
Identical Strangers
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Elyse Schein
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage (Stephanie Coontz)
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
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Stephanie Coontz
Save the Cat (Blake Snyder)
Save the Cat
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Blake Snyder
The Lost City of Z (David Grann)
The Lost City of Z
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David Grann
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Nickel and Dimed
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Barbara Ehrenreich
The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction (Wendy Northcutt)
The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction
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Wendy Northcutt
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Simon Singh)
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Simon Singh
Packing for Mars (Mary Roach)
Packing for Mars
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Mary Roach
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (Allison Hoover Bartlett)
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
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Allison Hoover Bartlett
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Cod
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