40 must reads for the S.T.E.M. enthusiast – A Catalogue of Cognition

Isaac Newton had once remarked, “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”

Reading books, especially the ones dedicated to S.T.E.M, confer on us the power of knowledge and the ability to apply thoughts in the real world.

They also shape us as individuals and us in turn shape society.

While some of us are voracious readers and always have one book at hand, some need to be encouraged to enjoy a good book every now and then to revitalize their grey matter.

Well if you are S.T.E.M. aficionado and are contemplating what to read next, then check this list of 40 S.T.E.M. books. Hope you will be able to pick your next one from here.

Happy #ReadABookDay

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• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe - Dan Falk
• AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena - Mitchell Moffit & Greg Brown
• Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks - Ben Goldacre
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Mary Roach
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
• Proof: The Science of Booze - Adam Rogers
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal 
• Machine, Platform, Crowd – Harnessing Our Digital Future - Andrew Mcafee & Erik Brynjolfsson
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley - Antonio Garcia Martinez 
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance 
• What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal ComputerIndustry - John Markoff 
• The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder 
• Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow - Jack Uldrich & Simon Anderson
• The Ultimate History of Video Games - Steven L. Kent  
• Geek Girl Rising - Samantha Walravens & Heather Cabot
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - Scott Galloway  

• To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Henry Petroski  
• The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman 
• Engineering and the Mind's Eye - Eugene S. Ferguson 
• Engineering the ABC's: How Engineers Shape Our World - Patty O'Brien Novak & Don McLean
• Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition - W.J. King & James G. Skakoon
• Why Buildings Stand Up: Strength of Architecture from the Pyramids to the Skyscraper - Mario G. Salvadori 
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge - David McCullough 
• Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars - Nathalia Holt 
• Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead - Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman
• The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are - Henry Petroski 

• Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions - Frederick Monsteller 
• Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World - Mariana Cook 
• Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry - Tony Rothman & Fukagawa Hidetoshi
• Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers - Jan Gullberg 
• Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem  - Simon Singh 
• The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - Simon Singh 
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea  - Charles Seife   
• A Beautiful Mind  - Sylvia Nasar   
• The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives  - Leonard Mlodinow   
• The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan  - Robert Kanigel