The Greatest Technical Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6595 Resources, Values And Development Amartya Sen 1984 Indian English
6870 Black Holes And Time Warps Kip S. Thorne 1994 American English
6870 Hyperspace Michio Kaku 1994 American English
6870 Six Easy Pieces Richard P. Feynman 1994 American English
7009 The Alchemy Of The Heavens Ken Croswell 1995 American English
7052 The Diversity of Life E. O. Wilson 1992 American English
7064 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
7093 Basic Physics Karl F. Kuhn 1996 American English
7135 Nifft The Lean Michael Shea 1982 American English
7154 Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers Max Planck 1922 German German
7157 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
7192 Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins 1996 British English
7237 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli 2015 Italian Italian
7243 Spillover David Quammen 2012 American English
7297 Phantoms In The Brain Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee 1998 American English
7369 Global Health Ann Lindstrand 2006 Unknown English
7446 The Magic Furnace Marcus Chown 1999 British English
7446 Five Ages Of The Universe Fred C. Adams, Greg Laughlin 1999 American English
7651 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
7876 The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande 2009 American English
7962 The Code Book Simon Singh 1999 British English
8082 The Whole Internet Ed Krol 1992 American English
8143 Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 American English
8340 Big Bang Simon Singh 2004 British English
8340 Charged Up Jacqui Bailey 2004 British English
8486 The Cosmic Landscape Leonard Susskind 2005 American English
8609 The Master Switch Tim Wu 2010 American English
8663 The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin 2006 American English
8688 Essays On Music Theodor Adorno 2002 German English
8771 The Whole Shebang Timothy Ferris 1997 American English
8802 The Periodic Table Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher 2007 British English
8928 The Black Hole War Leonard Susskind 2008 American English
8966 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
8989 The Language Instinct Steven Pinker 1994 American English
9041 The Mysterious Universe James Jeans 1930 British English
9156 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
9274 After The Music Stopped Alan S. Blinder 2013 American English
9497 Darwin Among The Machines George B. Dyson 1997 American English
9594 Earth Richard Fortey 2004 British English
9682 The Weather Makers Tim Flannery 2005 Australian English
9719 Astrophysics For People In A Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson 2017 American English
9818 The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 2006 British English
9970 Stalin And The Bomb David Holloway 1994 American English
9970 Overcoming Law Richard A. Posner 1995 American English
10545 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 1981 American English
10545 The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson 1951 American English
10892 The Emperor's New Mind Roger Penrose 1989 British English