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The Reading Room

How Things Actually Get Built

Forty years of load paths. These are the books that describe the other kind of structure without pretending it is simple.

a list by Ivor7 books

  1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    “The best book about a project ever written.”

    Richard Rhodes

    Shelve
    1
  2. Midnight in Chernobyl

    “And the best about one that was allowed to fail.”

    Adam Higginbotham

    Shelve
    2
  3. The Emperor of All Maladies

    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Shelve
    3
  4. Entangled Life

    “A book about networks that happens to be about fungi.”

    Merlin Sheldrake

    Shelve
    4
  5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas S. Kuhn

    Shelve
    5
  6. Godel, Escher, Bach

    “Took me a year. Would take me a year again.”

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    Shelve
    6
  7. Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson

    Shelve
    7