The Greatest Books of All Time on Artificial Intelligence
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | American | English | |
| 822 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | 1950 | American | English | |
| 893 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | American, Canadian | English | |
| 1004 | 2001 | Arthur C. Clarke | 1968 | British | English | |
| 2293 | Consciousness Explained | Daniel Dennett | 1991 | American | English | |
| 2471 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1989 | American | English | |
| 2711 | Alan Turing | Andrew Hodges | 1983 | British | English | |
| 3211 | Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | 2015 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 3484 | Consider Phlebas | Iain Banks | 1987 | Scottish | English | |
| 3887 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | American | English | |
| 4824 | He, She and It | Marge Piercy | 1991 | American | English | |
| 4979 | Klara And The Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2021 | British | English | |
| 5271 | I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | 1967 | American | English | |
| 5702 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 6414 | All Systems Red | Martha Wells | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6617 | Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | 2000 | British | English | |
| 7799 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 8852 | The Emperor's New Mind | Roger Penrose | 1989 | British | English | |
| 9723 | The Terminal Experiment | Robert J. Sawyer | 1995 | Canadian | English | |
| 9926 | Children Of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | British | English | |
| 10282 | The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | 1995 | American | English | |
| 10434 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | 1992 | American | English | |
| 10509 | Shadows Of The Mind | Roger Penrose | 1994 | British | English | |
| 10536 | Ai Superpowers | Kai-Fu Lee | 2018 | Chinese | English | |
| 10690 | Your Face Belongs To Us | Kashmir Hill | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10713 | Hum | Helen Phillips | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10868 | Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11039 | Empire Of Ai | Karen Hao | 2025 | American | English | |
| 11113 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 11798 | Cyteen | C. J. Cherryh | 1988 | American | English | |
| 11927 | Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | 2015 | American | English | |
| 12120 | Culpability | Bruce Holsinger | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12161 | Searches | Vauhini Vara | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12177 | Algorithms Of Oppression | Safiya Umoja Noble | 2018 | American | English | |
| 12436 | The Technological Republic | Alexander C. Karp | Unknown | English | ||
| 12443 | You Look Like A Thing And I Love You | Janelle Shane | 2019 | American | English | |
| 12496 | The Mind's I | Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett | 1981 | American | English | |
| 12620 | We Computers | Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12644 | The Restless Clock | Jessica Riskin | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12990 | If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13018 | The Thinking Machine | Stephen Witt | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13082 | More Everything Forever | Adam Becker | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13141 | The Confessions | Paul Bradley Carr | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13321 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | 2006 | American | English | |
| 13533 | Noon, 22nd Century | Arkady Strugatsky | 1961 | Russian | Russian | |
| 13772 | Necessity | Jo Walton | 2016 | Canadian | English | |
| 13794 | The Ghost In The Shell | Shirow Masamune | 1989 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 13803 | Les Racines Du Mal | Maurice G. Dantec | 1995 | French | French | |
| 14122 | Life 3.0 | Max Tegmark | 2017 | Swedish | English | |
| 14176 | To Be A Machine | Mark O'Connell | 2017 | Irish | English | |
| 14232 | Excession | Iain Banks | 1996 | British | English | |
| 14731 | Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14819 | Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | Douglas Adams | 1980 | British | English | |
| 14833 | 21 Lessons For The 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | 2018 | Israeli | English | |
| 14833 | Army Of None | Paul Scharre | 2018 | American | English | |
| 14939 | The City And The Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | 1956 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Count Zero | William Gibson | 1986 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Ilium | Dan Simmons | 2003 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Take Back Plenty | Colin Greenland | 1990 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Synners | Pat Cadigan | 1991 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Exit Strategy | Martha Wells | 2018 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Robots Of Dawn | Isaac Asimov | 1983 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Eon | Greg Bear | 1985 | American | English | |
| 14985 | River Of Gods | Ian McDonald | 2004 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Feersum Endjinn | Iain Banks | 1994 | British | English | |
| 14985 | The Coming Wave | Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar | 2024 | English | ||
| 14985 | Critical Mass | Daniel Suarez | 2023 | American | English | |
| 15567 | Tools And Weapons | Brad Smith | 2019 | American | English | |
| 15616 | A Thousand Brains | Jeff Hawkins | 2021 | American | English | |
| 15638 | Planet Magnon | Leif Randt | 2015 | German | German | |
| 15916 | The Computer And The Brain | John Von Neumann | 1958 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Titan | John Varley | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Accelerando | Charles Stross | 2005 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Fairyland | Paul J. McAuley | 1995 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Dreaming In Smoke | Tricia Sullivan | 1999 | British | English | |
| 17163 | The Quantum Thief | Hannu Rajaniemi | 2010 | Finnish | English | |
| 17163 | Vn | Madeline Ashby | 2012 | Canadian | English | |
| 17163 | 2010 | Arthur C. Clarke | 1982 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Sundiver | David Brin | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Burning Chrome | William Gibson | 1986 | Canadian | English | |
| 17163 | Friday | Robert A. Heinlein | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Diaspora | Greg Egan | 1997 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | Michaelmas | Algis Budrys | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Complete Roderick | John Sladek | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Autonomous | Annalee Newitz | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Otherland | Tad Williams | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Children Of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2019 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Embers Of War | Gareth L. Powell | 2018 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Ack Ack Macaque | Gareth L. Powell | 2012 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Darwin Among The Machines | George B. Dyson | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Ready Player Two | Ernest Cline | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Origin | Dan Brown | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Artificial Condition | Martha Wells | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17163 | A Closed And Common Orbit | Becky Chambers | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Service Model | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Supremacy | Parmy Olson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | The Singularity Is Near | Ray Kurzweil | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Fugitive Telemetry | Martha Wells | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Rogue Protocol | Martha Wells | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Ai Snake Oil | Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Why Machines Learn | Anil Ananthaswamy | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Robopocalypse | Daniel H. Wilson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Nexus | Ramez Naam | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Intelligence And Spirit | Reza Negarestani | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Reproduction | Louisa Hall | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Braking Day | Oyebanji, Adam | 2022 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | Philip K. Dick | American | English | ||
| 17163 | Station Eternity | Mur Lafferty | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17163 | God And The Chip | Stahl, William A. | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Kill Decision | Daniel Suarez | 2012 | American | English |