The Greatest Tech Books of All Time

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The Verge, 40 Books

The Verge staff picks for the greatest tech books of all time.
"We were less interested in works that are supposedly influential and more in ones that have endured, with ideas that are still relevant today, stories that have captured something essential about technology, and writing that’s made us stand up in our seats. These books don’t project a single vision of what tech is but continue to challenge what it can be".

This list was originally published in 2023 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7785 Close To The Machine Ellen Ullman 1997 American English
7106 Technopoly Neil Postman 1992 American English
5273 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
10970 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
9314 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
11935 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
11841 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11047 Boy Kings Kate Losse 2012 Unknown English
10915 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
12917 Like, Comment, Subscribe Mark Bergen 2022 Unknown English
11923 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
12383 New Money Lana Swartz 2020 Unknown English
1893 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 1981 American English
11301 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
9637 Being There Andy Clark 1996 Unknown English
11520 Spelunky Derek Yu 2015 American English
11802 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
12505 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12866 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
5933 Small Fry Lisa Brennan-Jobs 2018 American English
9324 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
10082 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
11442 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
11631 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
10815 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
10438 There Must Be A Pony In Here Somewhere Kara Swisher 2003 American English
12428 The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet Jeff Kosseff 2019 American English
13315 Everything I Need I Get From You Kaitlyn Tiffany 2022 Unknown English
11661 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
12177 Algorithms Of Oppression Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 American English
10135 Dealers Of Lightning Michael Hiltzik 2000 American English
11872 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
8992 The Deal Of The Century Steve Coll 1986 American English
12698 No Filter Sarah Frier 2020 American English
11534 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
12040 Crash Override Zoë Quinn 2017 American English
10843 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
12443 You Look Like A Thing And I Love You Janelle Shane 2019 American English