These are works I have enjoyed!
General Chemistry
Principles of Chemistry by Munowitz.
General Chemistry by Pauling.
Napoleon’s Buttons by Le Couteur and Burreson.
Snarky Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics by Huff.
Spurious Correlations by Vigen.
Fluids and microfluidics
Life in Moving Fluids by Vogel.
Intro to BioMEMS by Folch.
“Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale” by Squires and Quake.
Teaching
How Learning Works by Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Norman, and Lovett.
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research by Schwartz.
Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout by Jaremka et al.
Fail is not a four-letter word by Henry et al.
Teaching the Inevitable: Embracing a Pedagogy of Failure by Eckstein, Finaret, and Whitenack.
Defining a Research Trajectory.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte.
Building projects and managing teams
Lab Dynamics by Cohen and Cohen.
Scientifically minded eating (Yum!)
The Food Lab by Kenji López-Alt.
On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee.