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
Mauve
Waste and Want
Calendar:
Rats
One Good Turn
The Victorian Internet
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics
Confidence men and painted women
The axemaker's gift
A short history of rudeness
Tea
Seeds of change
The Devil's Cup
Potato
Milk
The Creation of the Media
Pattern Recognition
Speaker for the Dead
Snow Crash
Xenocide
Cryptonomicon
Ender’s Game
Stranger in a Strange Land
I, Robot