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Engineering Books
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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,661 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,459 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,262 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 158 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,404 ratings — published 2015
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,904 ratings — published 1999
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,668 ratings — published 1994
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.36 — 23,324 ratings — published 2007
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 121 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,547 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,527 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,016 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,604 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,838 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,893 ratings — published 2013
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,920 ratings — published 1994
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,700 ratings — published 2017
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,820 ratings — published 1999
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Thomas Dunne Book)
by (shelved 75 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.49 — 460 ratings — published 1976
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 785 ratings — published 2022
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,286 ratings — published 1989
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,991 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 — 18,488 ratings — published 1972
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,703 ratings — published 2013
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,472 ratings — published 1993
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 856 ratings — published 1985
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,224 ratings — published 2017
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,788 ratings — published 2003
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,870 ratings — published 2008
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,042 ratings — published 1998
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,501 ratings — published 1999
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,790 ratings — published 2019
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 349 ratings — published 1996
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,376 ratings — published 2018
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,179 ratings — published 2014
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,797 ratings — published 2012
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 653 ratings — published
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,944 ratings — published 2020
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,166 ratings — published 2020
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,011 ratings — published 2017
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,251 ratings — published 2015
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 388 ratings — published 2005
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 825 ratings — published 1992
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,774 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,007 ratings — published 2022
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,233 ratings — published 2020
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,028 ratings — published
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,348 ratings — published 2018
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 533 ratings — published 1975
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach [with Student Resource DVD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,013 ratings — published
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,367 ratings — published 1994
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 442,768 ratings — published 2015
“When I was toiling away in Intro to Civil Engineering and Econ 101, no one told me how much excelling in a professional setting came down to looking the busiest.”
― Four Weekends and a Funeral – Wenn der absolut Richtige zur ganz falschen Zeit kommt: Roman
― Four Weekends and a Funeral – Wenn der absolut Richtige zur ganz falschen Zeit kommt: Roman
“It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery.”
― The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future
― The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future












