Start with high-confidence history of technology books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel
Joseph Gies
The Perfectionists
Simon Winchester
The Idea Factory
Jon Gertner
The Industrial Revolution
Laura L. Frader
Too Much Fun
Jesper Juul
Paper Machines
Markus Krajewski
Paper
Mark Kurlansky
To Forgive Design
Henry Petroski
To Engineer Is Human
The Evolution of Useful Things
Victorian Internet,the
Tom Standage
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson
Boston Made
Dr. Robert M. Krim, Alan Earls
How the Internet Happened
Brian McCullough
The Notebook
Roland Allen
The Wristwatch Handbook
Ryan Schmidt
