Mary Roach

19 books

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

Best American Science & Nature Writing #12

Mary Roach, Tim Folger with Yudhijit Bhattacharjee (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), Deborah Blum (Contributor), Jon Cohen (Contributor), Luke Dittrich (Contributor), Jonathan Franzen (Contributor), Ian Frazier (Contributor), David H. Freedman (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Malcolm Gladwell (Contributor), Andrew Grant (Contributor), Stephen Hawking (Contributor), Leonard Mlodinow (Contributor), Amy Irvine (Contributor), Rowan Jacobsen (Contributor), Christopher Ketcham (Contributor), Dan Koeppel (Contributor), Jaron Lanier (Contributor), Jon Mooallem (Contributor), George Musser (Contributor), Jill Sisson Quinn (Contributor), Oliver Sacks (Contributor), Evan I. Schwartz (Contributor), Sandra Steingraber (Contributor), Abigail Tucker (Contributor), Tim Zimmermann (Contributor)

nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective medium-paced

361 pages | first published 2010

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

nonfiction science challenging funny informative slow-paced

303 pages | first published 2008

Days Like This: Good Writers on Bad Luck, Bum Deals, and Other Torments by Janice Cooke-Newman, Joyce Maynard, Novella Carpenter, Jonathan Evison, Michelle Richmond, Anne Lamott, Lavinia Spalding, Chloe Caldwell, Wendy Spero, Caroline Paul, Megan Daum, Mary Roach, Rachel Levin, Chris Collins, Scott McClanahan, Brian Doyle, Peter Hoffmeister, Kathryn Ma, Rich Black, Bonnie Tsui, Yiyun Li, James Patterson, Samantha Schoech

Days Like This: Good Writers on Bad Luck, Bum Deals, and Other Torments

Janice Cooke-Newman, Joyce Maynard, Novella Carpenter, Jonathan Evison, Michelle Richmond, Anne Lamott, Lavinia Spalding, Chloe Caldwell, Wendy Spero, Caroline Paul, Megan Daum, Mary Roach, Rachel Levin, Chris Collins, Scott McClanahan, Brian Doyle, Peter Hoffmeister, Kathryn Ma, Rich Black, Bonnie Tsui, Yiyun Li, James Patterson, Samantha Schoech

nonfiction essays reflective relaxing slow-paced

194 pages | first published 2015

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

nonfiction history nature science funny informative medium-paced

308 pages | first published 2021

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach

nonfiction history science technology challenging funny informative fast-paced

288 pages | first published 2016

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

nonfiction science funny informative fast-paced

352 pages | first published 2013

Inside Animal Minds: The New Science of Animal Intelligence by Peter Miller, Mary Roach, Virginia Morell

Inside Animal Minds: The New Science of Animal Intelligence

National Geographic Shorts

Peter Miller, Mary Roach, Virginia Morell

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced

62 pages | first published 2012

My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach

My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

Mary Roach

nonfiction essays science reflective fast-paced

191 pages | first published 2013

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Packing for Mars

Mary Roach

nonfiction science adventurous fast-paced

320 pages | first published 2010

Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer

Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

Carl Zimmer with Mary Roach (Contributor)

nonfiction art science informative slow-paced

271 pages | first published 2011