Start with high-confidence civil engineering books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Pavement Analysis and Design
Yang H. Huang
Geotechnical Engineering
Donald P. Coduto, Man-chu Ronald Yeung
On Architecture
Vitruvius
Structures
J. E. Gordon
Introduction to Infrastructure
Michael R. Penn, Philip J. Parker
Probability Concepts in Engineering
Alfredo H-S. Ang, Wilson H. Tang
Water Resources Engineering
Larry W. Mays
101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
John Kuprenas, Matthew Frederick
Computational Structural Dynamics
K. Talaganov, Kosta Talaganov
