The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a 2010 non-fiction book written by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.

The book describes the author's observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris, which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through dysautonomia, mitochondrial disease and chronic fatigue syndrome.

[1] The presence of the snail offered the author the opportunity to discover the peculiarities of its anatomy and behaviour, and helped her to cope with her own illness.

[2] She also deepened the scientific aspects of her small guest's natural history, and became aware of the richness of its existence.

[3] In the last page of the book Tova Bailey wishes terrestrial snails to survive to the ongoing Holocene extinction.