- 1998: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
- 2012: Nobel Laureate Autobiography: Conversations with Kary Mullis (Editor: James B. Lamar)
Scientific papers
- Mullis KB, Faloona FA (April 1987). "Specific synthesis of DNA in vitro via a polymerase-catalyzed chain reaction". Methods in Enzymology. 155: 335–50.
- Saiki RK, Bugawan TL, Horn GT, Mullis KB, Erlich HA (December 1986). "Analysis of enzymatically amplified beta-globin and HLA-DQ alpha DNA with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes". Nature. 324 (6093): 163–66.