100 Books about Science and Engineering for Grown-Ups
1. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating β 213,211 ratings
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating β 27 ratings 3. 
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character 4.19 avg rating β 30,238 ratings
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman 4.23 avg rating β 13,314 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating β 34,095 ratings 7. 
11. 
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating β 10,629 ratings 
14. 
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by:
Sergio Pistoi
4.09 avg rating β 46 ratings 15. 
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
by:
Gino Segrè
4.29 avg rating β 875 ratings 16. 
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The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling
by:
Raj Jain
4.16 avg rating β 75 ratings 
19. 
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by:
Jon Gertner
4.20 avg rating β 8,529 ratings 
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕs and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating β 9,905 ratings 22. 
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating β 8,789 ratings 23. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating β 7,384 ratings 
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex 4.02 avg rating β 372 ratings
25. 
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
by:
David S. Abraham
4.07 avg rating β 249 ratings 
25. 
OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
by:
Rakesh Singh
3.69 avg rating β 16 ratings 25. 
25. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
25. 
HumAIn: Navigating the Impact of AI in a Jobless Future
by:
Amanda Gibbs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 33. 
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Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Fiendish and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies 3.52 avg rating β 3,502 ratings
39. 
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
by:
Alan Lightman
4.12 avg rating β 198 ratings 40. 
The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner
by:
Philip J. Davis
4.05 avg rating β 676 ratings 40. 
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking 4.19 avg rating β 297 ratings
42. 
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by:
Nancy Forbes
4.27 avg rating β 1,764 ratings 43. 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by:
Carl Sagan
4.05 avg rating β 10,816 ratings 43. 
48. 
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by:
George Dyson
3.60 avg rating β 4,673 ratings 48. 
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.13 avg rating β 5,852 ratings 
51. 
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by:
Peter Seibel
3.95 avg rating β 5,346 ratings 
53. 
Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
by:
Blaise Cronin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings 54. 
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World 3.82 avg rating β 841 ratings
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The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think
by:
Alexander Klose
3.75 avg rating β 20 ratings 
58. 
Managing Research, Development and Innovation: Managing the Unmanageable
by:
Ravi Jain
3.12 avg rating β 16 ratings 
60. 
Asian Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges 3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY: BUILDING A GLOBAL POLICY SCHOOL IN ASIA 4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings
63. 
Mathematical Models in Biology (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 46) 4.22 avg rating β 37 ratings
64. 
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
by:
Mario Livio
3.57 avg rating β 2,377 ratings 65. 
Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences 4.07 avg rating β 14 ratings
66. 
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
by:
Lee Smolin
4.04 avg rating β 10,551 ratings 67. 
Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
by:
Helge Kragh
4.45 avg rating β 103 ratings 68. 
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
by:
Martin D. Davis
4.11 avg rating β 496 ratings 69. 
Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
by:
Richard DeWitt
4.20 avg rating β 324 ratings 70. 
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.87 avg rating β 622 ratings 
73. 
The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by:
Jagdish Mehra
4.14 avg rating β 85 ratings 74. 
Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation: The Mathematical Basis of Performance Modeling 3.77 avg rating β 13 ratings
79. 
Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)
by:
Sandro Mancuso
4.30 avg rating β 956 ratings 80. 
John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More
by:
Norman Macrae
3.73 avg rating β 248 ratings 
82. 
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing
by:
William Aspray
3.58 avg rating β 45 ratings 83. 
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
by:
David Hume
4.09 avg rating β 682 ratings 84. 
Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed
by:
Ruth Moore
4.47 avg rating β 34 ratings 85. 
Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science
by:
J.L. Heilbron
3.87 avg rating β 45 ratings 86. 
The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
by:
Basil Mahon
4.15 avg rating β 802 ratings 
88. 
What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
by:
Daryn Lehoux
3.65 avg rating β 17 ratings 89. 
The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
by:
Samuel Arbesman
3.59 avg rating β 1,382 ratings 
93. 
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family
by:
Peter Byrne
4.03 avg rating β 156 ratings 94. 
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Revised
by:
Norman E. Fenton
3.73 avg rating β 37 ratings 
96. 
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing
by:
Frank Buschmann
3.72 avg rating β 53 ratings 
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Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Environments 4.17 avg rating β 35 ratings