6) Excellent book on communication in Science and Engineering. The book includes detailed chapters on how to write manuscripts and proposals and also contains a chapter on oral communication. The book is written by active scientists as opposed to by English experts. Hence, authors aptly address the issues faced by the scientist and engineers while communicating their work.
8) Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
9) The Particle at the End of the Universe
10) The Gene: An Intimate History
11) When Breath Becomes Air (RIP, Paul! Thanks for this dignified gift while you were embracing untimely death. You will always be around in the form of this book.) 12) The Curious Wavefunction: an award-winning blog that covers a wide range of science topics. Though the blog is mainly about basic sciences (and less engineering), the broader principles discussed here are relevant to many areas of engineering.