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Materials Science: Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik

https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters

Very accessible and fun to read, and the book is structured around introducing a lot of fundamental materials science concepts in the context of everyday objects (silverware, chocolate, etc)

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There was a 3-part BBC TV series by the author called "How It Works" which convered essentially the same material which I far preferred to the book - I don't have a stream link, unfortunately.

Cool! I hadn’t seen the series before. Seems like it predates the book actually, which I wasn’t really expecting

I haven’t found a streaming link yet, but these (related?) clips look pretty interesting https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hkyfr/clips

I would say Geoff Rayner-Canham's "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry". It is obviously a university level teaching book, but I find it very appealing and not really hard to grasp. It made me fall in love with chemical processes and some material science concepts.

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