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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,688 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,478 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,507 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 161 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,541 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,908 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,018 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,406 ratings — published 2007
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 122 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,596 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,576 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,060 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,610 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,882 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,974 ratings — published 2013
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,949 ratings — published 1994
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.45 — 14,022 ratings — published 2017
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,836 ratings — published 1999
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Thomas Dunne Book)
by (shelved 75 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.50 — 464 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 — 808 ratings — published 2022
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,318 ratings — published 1989
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,036 ratings — published
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,481 ratings — published 1993
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,578 ratings — published 1972
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,297 ratings — published 2017
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 858 ratings — published 1985
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,940 ratings — published 2013
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,808 ratings — published 2003
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,222 ratings — published 2008
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,043 ratings — published 1998
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,840 ratings — published 2019
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,455 ratings — published 2018
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,558 ratings — published 1999
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 350 ratings — published 1996
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,198 ratings — published 2014
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,858 ratings — published 2012
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 654 ratings — published
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,956 ratings — published 2020
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 391 ratings — published 2005
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,322 ratings — published 2015
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,202 ratings — published 2020
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,065 ratings — published 2017
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 828 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 — 1,781 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,059 ratings — published 2022
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,303 ratings — published 2020
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,086 ratings — published
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,356 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 — 536 ratings — published 1975
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,904 ratings — published 2016
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach [with Student Resource DVD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,016 ratings — published
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,451 ratings — published 1981
“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
“There was no state of being “fixed,” Doha had learned. There was just the period between bouts of this requires attention immediately. There were certainly wrong ways to do things, but there was no one right way. If functionality was the goal, well, there were multiple routes to it, and Doha relished the freedom in that.”
― The Paragon
― The Paragon












