Mary Roach's "Packing for Mars" and "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese are also excellent. I've liked all of Mary Roach's books, and "Packing for Mars" is in the same league as "Stiff" for jam-packed with information and yet laugh-out-loud funny in some of the oddest places. I wasn't sure about "Cutting for Stone" from an excerpt in a review, but I couldn't put it down once I got accustomed to his style.
(I have "Stiff" as an audio book and my husband kept teasing me because I'd fall asleep listening to it. He said I had to be missing half of it, but one day he woke me up while I was sleep-listening, and I shot upright on the sofa and blurted out "Corpses and compost share many of the same qualities." :D )
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Date: 2011-04-07 08:07 pm (UTC)(I have "Stiff" as an audio book and my husband kept teasing me because I'd fall asleep listening to it. He said I had to be missing half of it, but one day he woke me up while I was sleep-listening, and I shot upright on the sofa and blurted out "Corpses and compost share many of the same qualities." :D )