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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,617 ratings — published 1978
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,777 ratings — published 1988
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,415 ratings — published 1985
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 152 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,124 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,150 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,646 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.36 — 23,096 ratings — published 2007
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 117 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,420 ratings — published 2018
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,911 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,462 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,594 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,785 ratings — published 1972
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,858 ratings — published 1994
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,651 ratings — published 2013
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 13,096 ratings — published 2017
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,782 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,250 ratings — published 1989
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Thomas Dunne Book)
by (shelved 72 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.50 — 459 ratings — published 1976
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,924 ratings — published
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,251 ratings — published 1972
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,171 ratings — published 2013
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,443 ratings — published 1993
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 739 ratings — published 2022
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 853 ratings — published 1985
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,755 ratings — published 2003
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,055 ratings — published 2017
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,164 ratings — published 2008
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,034 ratings — published 1998
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,394 ratings — published 1999
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 348 ratings — published 1996
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,136 ratings — published 2014
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 640 ratings — published
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,722 ratings — published 2019
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,610 ratings — published 2012
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,904 ratings — published 2020
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,095 ratings — published 2020
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,912 ratings — published 2017
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 389 ratings — published 2005
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,232 ratings — published 2018
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 820 ratings — published 1992
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,147 ratings — published 2015
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,762 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,904 ratings — published 2022
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,909 ratings — published
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,330 ratings — published 2018
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,108 ratings — published 2020
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 525 ratings — published 1975
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 437,877 ratings — published 2015
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Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach [with Student Resource DVD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,008 ratings — published
Basic Machines and How They Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 270 ratings — published 1971
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