Player Piano

I read Kurt Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_ and really enjoyed it. It's a story about a heavily computerized society, but the computers are vacuum tube based. "We ran the calculation, replaced all the tubes and ran it again, so we're confident in the result" sort of thing. I also really enjoyed Andy Weir's _Project_Hail_Mary_, and _The_Martian_.

Player piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Essential reading for anyone who forgets how powerful and often out of touch engineers are as a class of professionals.

Anything by Vonnegut that you haven't read. Almost all of his books would be readable in a week or so. ("Player Piano" may be most appropriate to suggest given the nature of this site.)