The Greatest Books of All Time on Industry

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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
690 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
1686 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
1762 Small Is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher 1973 British English
2663 Debit And Credit Gustav Freytag 1855 German German
2698 Cod Mark Kurlansky 1997 American English
3205 The Prize Daniel Yergin 1991 American English
3409 The Glass Bees Ernst Jünger 1957 German German
4168 The History of the Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell 1904 American English
4396 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4497 The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers Paul Kennedy 1987 British English
4751 Origins of the New South C. Vann Woodward 1951 American English
5492 Unsafe At Any Speed Ralph Nader 1965 American English
5529 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
6567 Nice Work David Lodge 1988 British English
6766 Poor Richard Improved, The Way To Wealth Benjamin Franklin 1758 American English
6766 Idaho Federal Writers' Project 1937 American English
7215 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 British English
7215 R.U.R. Karel Čapek 1920 Czech Czech
7655 Paterson William Carlos Williams 1946 American English
9332 Showa 1926-1939 Shigeru Mizuki 2009 Japanese Japanese
9518 Oranges John McPhee 1967 American English
10102 The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett 1999 British English
10303 Mechanization Takes Command Sigfried Giedion 1948 Mixed English
10448 The Poison Squad Deborah Blum 2018 American English
11811 Rosie The Riveter Revisited Sherna Berger Gluck 1987 American English
11899 Margaret Bourke White Vicki Goldberg 1988 American English
12013 John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856 British English
12130 The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh 2000 Indian English
12324 Titan Ron Chernow 1998 American English
12324 Morgan Jean Strouse 1999 American English
13337 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13359 A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain Daniel Defoe 1724 British English
13359 English Journey J. B. Priestley 1934 British English
13738 The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling 1990 American English
13817 The Worldwide Machine Paolo Volponi 1965 Italian Unknown
13817 Story Of My People Edoardo Nesi 2011 Italian Italian
14192 Pax Britannica James Morris 1968 British English
14369 The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1902 American English
14410 The Box Marc Levinson 2006 American English
14498 The Iron Dragon's Daughter Michael Swanwick 1993 American English
14519 Prime Movers Of Globalization Vaclav Smil 2010 Canadian English
14552 The Ancient Ship Zhang Wei 1987 Chinese Chinese
14629 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English
14629 Making The Modern World Vaclav Smil 2013 Canadian English
14730 Energy And Civilization Vaclav Smil 2017 Czech English
14830 Railroader Howard Green 2018 Canadian English
14983 Downriver Iain Sinclair 1991 British English
14983 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
15597 Kindred Of The Dust Peter B. Kyne 1920 American English
15897 Black On White M. Ilin 1932 Russian Russian
15897 Labor’s Untold Story Richard Boyer, Herbert Morais 1955 American English
15897 The Air Conditioned Nightmare Henry Miller 1945 American English
15897 The Masters Of Capital John Moody 1919 American English
17117 Prophets of Regulation Thomas K. McCraw 1984 American English
17117 The Shock Of The Old David Edgerton 2006 British English
17117 The Crime And Punishment Of I. G. Farben Joseph Borkin 1978 American English
17117 Nature’s Metropolis William Cronon 1991 American English
17117 How Music Got Free Stephen Richard Witt 2015 American English
17117 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
17117 Dickens Peter Ackroyd 1990 British English
17117 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
16870 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English
17117 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17117 Pandaemonium Humphrey Jennings 1985 British English
17117 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner David Ireland 1971 Australian English
17117 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
17117 Gadis Kretek Ratih Kumala 2012 Indonesian Indonesian
17117 Competitive Strategy Michael E. Porter 1980 American English