The Best Microhistory Books to Read in 2026 | https://pangobooks.com/blog/microhistory-book | just a fun little list for nonfiction fans to enjoy! not made by me so no recs please
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last updated April, 2026
A History of the World in Six Glasses
Tom Standage
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Benjamin Lorr
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Emma Southon
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
Jeff Ryan
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning
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