A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
The human stain
Philip Roth
Eating Animals
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
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Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The ...
Charles Darwin