Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science (Macmillan Science, 2007)
Futureworld: Where Science Fiction Becomes Science (Boxtree/Science Museum, 2008)
Revolution in Science: How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Introducing Science Communication: A Practical Guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Space Hoppers (Macmillan/BBC, 2010)
Really Really Big Questions about Space and Time (Kingfisher/Macmillan, 2010)
The Alien Hunters Handbook (Kingfisher/Macmillan, 2012)
Alien Life Imagined (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Mark Brake’s Space, Time, Machine, Monster (Candy Jar, 2014)
How to be a Space Explorer (Lonely Planet, 2014)
Mark Brake’s Space, Time, Machine, Monster: Dr Who Edition (Candy Jar, 2015)
The Science of Star Wars (Racehorse, 2016)
The Big Earth Book (Lonely Planet, 2017)
The Science of Harry Potter (Racehorse, 2017)
The Science of Superheroes (Racehorse, 2018)
The Science of Science Fiction (Skyhorse, 2018)
The Science of The Big Bang Theory (Skyhorse, 2019)
The Science of James Bond (Skyhorse, 2020)
Contributed chapters to books:
Brake M, Hook N, _ Teaching Science and Science Fiction,_ In Andy Sawyer and Peter Wright (eds.), Teaching Science Fiction, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010
Brake M, The History and Development of Science and Its Communication, In Brake M, Weitkamp E, Introducing Science Communication: A Practical Guide, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009
Hook N, Brake M, Science in Popular Culture, In Brake M, Weitkamp E, Introducing Science Communication: A Practical Guide, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009