Literature for engineers and computer scientists

I am compiling a list of fiction that would be good for engineers and computer scientists to read in order to reflect on their professional role in society and as individuals. 

This list is open for additions; please make suggestions!

List of good books:

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Physicists (Die Physiker)
• Karin Boye - Kallocain
• Harry Martinson - Aniara
• J. W v. Goethe - Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil)
• Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
• Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
• Kurt Vonnegut -
  • Player Piano 
  • Cat's Cradle
• Stanisław Lem - 
  • Solaris
  • The Star Diaries (Dzienniki gwiazdowe)
• Max Frisch - Homo faber 
• Isaac Asimov - I, robot
• Peter George - Red Alert
• Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel (La invención de Morel)
• Karel Čapek
  •  R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
  • The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno)
  • War with the Newts (Válka s mloky)
  • Krakatit
• Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things
• Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (Мы)
• Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel)
• E F Schumacher - Small is Beautiful
• Norbert Wiener -The Human Use of Human Beings
• Aldous Huxley - Island
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Dispossessed 
  • Left Hand of Darkness
• Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage ( 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年)
• Niccolò Macchiavelli - The Prince (Il Principe)
• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic (Пикник на обочине)
• Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
• Jeanette Winterson - The Stone Gods
• Oliver Sacks - A Leg to Stand On
• Henrik Pontoppidan - Lucky Per (Lykke-Per)
• Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - In the First Circle (В круге первом)
• Per Olof Sundman - The Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd)
• Primo Levi - 
  • The Wrench (La chiave a stella)
  • The Periodic Table (Il sistema periodico)
• Robert Sheckley - Ticket to Tranai in Citizen in Space
• Daniel Keyes - Flowers from Algernon
• Robert Silverberg - Enter a soldier. Later: enter another
• Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
• Sven Fagerberg
  • Kostymbalen
  • Tal till Hermes

Thanks to Johan Montelius, Daniel Pargman, Per Westerlund, Elina Eriksson, Per Olof Jakobsson, Daniel Grob, Torbjörn Einarsson, Otto Spaniol, Martin May, Ana Pont, Raimo Kantola, Sverker Janson and Peter Radford for suggestions!

 

The following paper notes that engineering students need to improve in empathy; reading and discussing may be helpful.

Chato Rasoala, Henrik Danielssona & Tomas Jungertab. Empathy among students in engineering programmes. European Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 37, Issue 5, 2012, pages 427-435. DOI:10.1080/03043797.2012.708720