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This week we are doing a special crossover “episode” in sharing books. You know that we have a weekly book group podcast: Reading With Libraries. A few weeks ago we talked about the genre of Microhistories. Let’s dive into that here!

You can listen to the episode right here: (Or subscribe in your favorite podcast app!)

Here are the books we shared in that episode:

• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
• Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, by Peter Chapman
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife
• Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home, by Lucinda Hawksley
• Ivory Vikings, by Nancy Marie Brown
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson
• The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, by Deborah Blum
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage
• Color: A Natural History of the Palette, by Victoria Finlay
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester
• The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem, by Stacy Schiff
• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, by Sam Kean