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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,857 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,595 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,583 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 184 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,403 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,829 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,662 ratings — published 1999
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 141 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,091 ratings — published 2018
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,863 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,850 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,339 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,641 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,104 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,844 ratings — published 2013
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.43 — 15,747 ratings — published 2017
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,063 ratings — published 1994
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 941 ratings — published 2022
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 82 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,892 ratings — published 1999
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.51 — 484 ratings — published 1976
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,446 ratings — published 1972
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,985 ratings — published 2018
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,489 ratings — published 2008
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,414 ratings — published 1989
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,075 ratings — published 1998
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 870 ratings — published 1985
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,518 ratings — published 1993
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,240 ratings — published
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,537 ratings — published 2013
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,747 ratings — published 2017
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,947 ratings — published 1999
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,923 ratings — published 2003
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,049 ratings — published 2019
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 673 ratings — published
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,425 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,280 ratings — published 2014
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,361 ratings — published 2012
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 847 ratings — published 1992
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 353 ratings — published 1996
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,682 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,348 ratings — published 2022
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,312 ratings — published 2017
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,054 ratings — published 2020
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 404 ratings — published 2005
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,651 ratings — published 2020
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,896 ratings — published 1981
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,816 ratings — published 2015
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,347 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 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,398 ratings — published 1994
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,423 ratings — published 2018
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,974 ratings — published 2016
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 574 ratings — published 1975
“Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them.”
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“But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.”
― The Wind Rises
― The Wind Rises
