What to Read After The Pencil
Readers who loved The Pencil by Henry Petroski keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Pencil is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Pencil
Waste and Want
Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
The Victorian Internet
One Good Turn
Mauve
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics
Rats
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Seeds of Change
The Axemaker's Gift
A Short History of Rudeness
Tea
Milk
The Devil's Cup
Potato
The Creation of the Media
Pattern Recognition
Snow Crash
Xenocide
Cryptonomicon
Speaker for the Dead
Stranger in a Strange Land
I, Robot
A Walk in the Woods