Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

By
Mary Roach
Mary Roach
2003 • 303 pages

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112 books

Audiobooks

camellott
Cameron
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Station Eleven
An Essay on the Principle of Population
The Communist Manifesto
A Man Called Ove
Tortilla Curtain
You

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49 books

2022 Reads

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Suki, Alone
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 2
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift, Part 1
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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489 books

Audiobook

SueWise
Susan Weissman
Bruno, Chief of Police
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Anna Karenina
28 Summers
A Convenient Fiction
A Girl Called Samson

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391 books

Audible

SueWise
Susan Weissman
Bruno, Chief of Police
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
28 Summers
A Convenient Fiction
A Girl Called Samson
Alaska

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

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Haunt
Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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381 books

Darkling

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Haunt
Beyond the Body Farm
Danse Macabre
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
Evil Genes
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The Great Mortality

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641 books

Imported List

emme
Matias
Invisible Monsters
Look to Windward
Il gatto in noi
The Algebraist
The Wasp Factory
Foucault's Pendulum
The Truce (The Reawakening)

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25 books

Favorites

emme
Matias
Exquisite Corpse
Invisible Monsters
Abbiamo sempre vissuto nel castello
Crash
Il silenzio degli innocenti
Spider
La porta

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576 books

Own

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amber
And I Darken
A Torch Against the Night
The Perfect Stranger
The Outsiders
We Were Liars
The Awakening / The Struggle
Now I Rise

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802 books

Nonfiction

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Laura
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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934 books

E Book

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Laura
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
Executive Privilege
The God of the Hive
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sh*t My Dad Says

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179 books

Science

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Laura
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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172 books

Non Fiction

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The God Delusion
The Road Ahead
The Diary of a Young Girl
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
The Story of Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything

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27 books

Science

anjali
anjali
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
A Briefer History of Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Shadows of the Mind
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind

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67 books

2023 Reading Challenge

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Sean
Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Vol. 1
A Fatal Grace
The Dirty South
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Brutal Telling
The Devil and the Dark Water

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62 books

2023 Reads

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Sean
A Fatal Grace
The Dirty South
A Rule Against Murder
The Brutal Telling
The Devil and the Dark Water
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten

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22 books

Non Fiction

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Sean
Cursed Objects
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
Up From Slavery
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments
God's Tribesman: The Rochunga Pudaite Story
A Gift of Love

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10 books

Good To Know I Guess

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Sean
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
The Diary of a Bookseller
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Substances and the Killers Who Used Them
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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2 books

The More You Know

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Sean
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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124 books

Nonfiction

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kattie
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
Lost person behavior
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Noopiming : The Cure for White Ladies

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115 books

2013

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Michelle
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
A week in winter
Anna and the French Kiss
Beautiful Creatures
The Love Dare
Lonesome Dove
Dark Places

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73 books

Makes You Think

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Michelle
The Da Vinci Code
My Sister's Keeper
Nineteen Minutes
Plain Truth
11/22/63
What Alice Forgot

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46 books

Non Fiction

qbert
Michelle
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Happy, Happy, Happy
Five Days at Memorial
Unbroken
The Hiding Place
Yes Please

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123 books

Want To Read Nonfiction

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Hannah
Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings

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27 books

Death And Dying

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Kay
Good Mourning
How to Die: A Book About Being Alive
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
The Year of Magical Thinking
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