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If you loved Connections by James Burke, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Inventions and Technology & Engineering.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Connections.

The Optimist’s Telescope Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age — Bina Venkataraman

The Optimist’s Telescope Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Bina Venkataraman

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies — Paul Fischer

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Edison’s Ghosts The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses — Katie Spalding

Edison’s Ghosts The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it — Julia Keller

Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented it

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Wright Brothers — David McCullough

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Engineers of Victory The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War — Paul Kennedy

Engineers of Victory The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Man Behind the Microchip Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley — Leslie Berlin

The Man Behind the Microchip Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The True North How Canadian Creativity Changed the World — D. Paul Schafer

The True North How Canadian Creativity Changed the World

D. Paul Schafer

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Nuts & Bolts Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World (in a Big Way) — Roma Agrawal

Nuts & Bolts Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World (in a Big Way)

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

When the Heavens Went on Sale The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach — Ashlee Vance

When the Heavens Went on Sale The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Liftoff Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX — Eric Berger

Liftoff Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Pieces of the Action — Vannevar Bush

Pieces of the Action

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Patent Inventions–intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel — Clare Pettitt

Patent Inventions–intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Copies in Seconds How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg : Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine — David Owen

Copies in Seconds How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg : Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Time Lord Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time — Clark Blaise

Time Lord Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Pattern Seekers A New Theory of Human Invention — Simon Baron-Cohen

The Pattern Seekers A New Theory of Human Invention

Simon Baron-Cohen

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy — Tim Harford

The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

How to Invent Everything A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler — Ryan North

How to Invent Everything A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Hands of Time A Watchmaker’s History — Rebecca Struthers

Hands of Time A Watchmaker’s History

Rebecca Struthers

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Printer’s Error Irreverent Stories from Book History — Rebecca Romney

Printer’s Error Irreverent Stories from Book History

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Powerhouse Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World — Steve LeVine

The Powerhouse Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

Tank — Mark Urban

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Powerhouse America, China, and the Great Battery War — Steve LeVine

The Powerhouse America, China, and the Great Battery War

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

The Paper Trail An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention — Alexander Monro

The Paper Trail An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention

Alexander Monro

Themes: Inventions • Technology & Engineering

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Connections by James Burke. Connected by Inventions, Technology & Engineering. Authors featured include Bina Venkataraman, Paul Fischer, Katie Spalding, Julia Keller, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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