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I'm currently going through Niven's work. I'd suggest The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is also an amazing book if you haven't read it yet.
One more suggestion: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
+1 for Project Hail Mary, one of the few books that can make me forget to sleep on a weekdays to finish it
I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, just couldn't put it down and it is similar enough to OP's prompt to recommend to them.
It's not a book but if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary you might enjoy For All Mankind on Apple TV. It has a similar vibe of engineers and tech driving the plot balanced with looking at the human costs of a rapidly advancing space program both on and off Earth
My wife's review of project Hail Mary is that "it was a good book, but now I know how to build a centrifuge". If you like that kind of sci-fi I'd recommend it. I also really enjoyed it as well.
Rendezvous with Rama is also very good.
I vaguely know how to build a centrifuge.... I don't necessarily know how to balance it. which leads to some exciting moments....