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Mary Roach

Mary Roach is the author of seven 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 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

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
E Book, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller

"Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
E Book, 2011
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
E Book, 2013
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach
E Book, 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...
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
E Book
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach
E Book, 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Paperback, 2021
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
Packing for Mars for Kids
Mary Roach
Hardback, 2022
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) asks the questions children ask in this young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars.
Packing for Mars for Kids
Mary Roach
E Book, 2022
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) asks the questions children ask in this young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach
Paperback, 2022