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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

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The ones I rated highest out of those I read this year (which is what I think the question means). * Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester * Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder-A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science by James Magaffey * Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande * Vulcan 607 by Rowland White * Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen * Best. Movie. Year. Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery * A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth * 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink by Taylor Downing * The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why by Amanda Ripley * In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford * Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss * Working Actor: Breaking in, Making a Living, and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business by David Dean Bottrell * Becoming by Michelle Obama * Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker * Rush Hour by Iain Gatel…