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Mary Roach

Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Oakland, California.

Mary Roach

Awards

Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2005

Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2016

Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2017

Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2022

Joint Winner — Alex Award, 2004

Books by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2003
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2005
The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2008
The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach
Paperback, 2006
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonktrains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2010
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2016
A New York Times / National Bestseller

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested...
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach
Paperback, 2017
A New York Times / National Bestseller

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested...
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
E Book, 2004
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach
E Book, 2006
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonktrains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.