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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 — 244,598 ratings — published 2003
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,817 ratings — published 2008
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,137 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,396 ratings — published 2013
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,959 ratings — published 2010
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,843 ratings — published 2016
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,023 ratings — published 2021
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,013 ratings — published 2013
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,271 ratings — published 2025
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2011: The Most Respected Annual Nonfiction Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,387 ratings — published 2010
Inside Animal Minds: The New Science of Animal Intelligence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.08 — 198 ratings — published 2012
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,283 ratings — published 2011
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mary-roach)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,610 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 — 776 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 3.68 — 1,753 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 — 4,496 ratings — published 2013
“US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.”
― Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
― Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.”
― Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
― Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
