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"The Mythical Man-Month" - Fred Brooks : A classic book of software engineering but it is so much more. If you have aspirations of becoming an effective manager, you need this book.

Rama is a great read and shows off Clarke's skill in merging science and fiction into a believable narrative.

Its a very good book.

Bad Blood - John Carreyou This has been listed multiple times. Depicts the darkside of the startup phenomena

Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company - Michael Malone

Chasing New Horizons - Alan Stern, David Grinspoon Documents the people and machine that explored Pluto

"Flight: My Life in Mission Control" - Chris Kraft : A book about the early space program written by the man who literally wrote the book on how spaces missions were to be conducted.

"Kelly: More than My Share of it All" - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson : A personal narrative of the world's greatest aircraft designer

Sunburst and Luminary - Don Eyles History of the Apollo guidance computer software from the man who wrote it

A related book is "The Space Barons" by Christian Davenport.