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Mary Roach Books
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 242,908 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,615 ratings — published 2008
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,992 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,114 ratings — published 2013
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,709 ratings — published 2010
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,693 ratings — published 2016
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,633 ratings — published 2021
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,998 ratings — published 2013
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,365 ratings — published 2025
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2011: The Most Respected Annual Nonfiction Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,385 ratings — published 2010
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,514 ratings — published 2021
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.09 — 762 ratings — published 2021
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,738 ratings — published 2020
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,473 ratings — published 2013
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.”
― Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
― Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
