The most popular engineering books

Engineering books are about designing and building things that work. Bridges, engines, circuits, materials and systems are covered, in textbooks for students, references for professionals and popular accounts of great feats of construction. For anyone who likes to know how things stay up or keep running.

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Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

2011 · 2015 edition

568 pages

Hidden Figures
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Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

2016 · 2022 edition

368 pages

Elon Musk
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Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

2019 · 2023 edition

608 pages

Silent Spring
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Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

1972 · 2024 edition

234 pages

The Innovators
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The Innovators

Walter Isaacson

Published 2014

542 pages

Rocket Boys
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Rocket Boys

Homer Hickam

1998 · 2015 edition

384 pages

Clean Code
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Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

1974 · 2008 edition

431 pages

Stuff Matters
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Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik

2013 · 2014 edition

264 pages

The Great Bridge
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The Great Bridge

David McCullough

1972 · 2012 edition

608 pages

iWoz
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iWoz

Max Dilling

2000 · 2006 edition

320 pages