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10 Best Civil Engineering Books

Goal: Find the best Civil Engineering books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best civil engineering books" and study the top 4+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

10 Best Civil Engineering Books

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1

Structures

Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

by J. E. Gordon

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2

Advances in Water Resources Engineering

by Chih Ted Yang

3

Strength of Materials

Mechanics of Solids

by R.S. Khurmi

4

The Civil Engineering Handbook

by W.F. Chen

5

The Tower and the Bridge

The New Art of Structural Engineering

by David P. Billington Jr.

6

Architecture

Form, Space, & Order

by Francis D. K. Ching

7

Circles in the Sky

The Life and Times of George Ferris

by Richard Weingardt

8

Civil Engineering Materials

by Shan Somayaji

9

Man of Iron

by Julian Glover

10

Why Buildings Fall Down

How Structures Fail

by Matthys Levy

Sources

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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