The Greatest Technical Books Since 1900

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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
10082 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10115 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
10305 Man, Play And Games Roger Caillois 1958 French French
10305 Theory Of Peasant Economy Alexander V. Chayanov 1925 Russian Russian
10305 Film Form Sergei Eisenstein 1949 Russian Russian
10305 The Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch 1953 German German
10305 Mechanization Takes Command Sigfried Giedion 1948 Mixed English
10305 Perspective As Symbolic Form Erwin Panofsky 1927 German German
10305 The Course In General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure 1916 Swiss French
10305 An Actor Prepares Konstantin Stanislavski 1936 Russian Russian
10396 Essays On Music Theodor Adorno 2002 German English
10533 Ai Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee 2018 Chinese English
10541 The Face That Must Die Ramsey Campbell 1979 British English
10545 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10843 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10953 Spillover David Quammen 2012 American English
10970 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
10973 The Two Mile Time Machine Richard Alley 2000 American English
11301 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11534 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11541 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
11661 After The Music Stopped Alan S. Blinder 2013 American English
11837 The Balance Of Nature John Kricher 2009 Unknown English
11879 The Sea Around Us Rachel Carson 1951 American English
12067 How We Think John Dewey 1910 American English
12194 Earth Richard Fortey 2004 British English
12325 Stalin And The Bomb David Holloway 1994 American English
12325 Overcoming Law Richard A. Posner 1995 American English
12451 The Weather Makers Tim Flannery 2005 Australian English
12708 The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 2006 British English
13213 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
13361 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Ii Richard P. Feynman 1964 American English
13361 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Iii Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
13361 The New Science Of Strong Materials J. E. Gordon 1968 British English
13524 Perception And Misperception In International Politics Robert Jervis 1976 American English
13806 Global Warming John Theodore Houghton 1986 British English
13816 The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande 2009 American English
14122 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
14201 Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky 1957 American English
14410 Global Health Ann Lindstrand 2006 Unknown English
14434 The World Of Mathematics James R. Newman 1956 American English
14787 Genetics and the Origin of Species Theodosius Dobzhansky 1937 American English
14819 Logic And Knowledge Bertrand Russell 1956 British English
14984 The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav 1979 American English
14984 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli 2015 Italian Italian
14984 In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat John Gribbin 1984 British English
14984 Astrophysics For People In A Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson 2017 American English
14984 A City On Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith 2023 Unknown English
15614 Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 American English
15909 The Engineering of Consent Edward Bernays 1947 American English
15909 Uncertainty Principle Werner Heisenberg 1927 German Unknown
15909 A Critique of the Theory of Evolution Thomas Hunt Morgan 1916 American English
15909 Conditioned Reflexes Ivan Pavlov 1927 Russian Russian
15909 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior John Von Neumann 1944 American English
15909 Behaviorism John Watson 1924 American English
15909 The Apriori Foundations Of The Civil Law Adolf Reinach 1913 German German
15909 The Beveridge Report William Beveridge 1942 British English
16609 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16673 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
17151 The Science Of The Mind Owen J. Flanagan 1984 American English
17151 The Dreams Of Reason Heinz R. Pagels 1988 American English
17151 Big Bang Simon Singh 2004 British English
17151 Turn Left At Orion Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis 1989 American English
17151 The Backyard Astronomer's Guide Terence Dickinson 1991 Canadian English
17151 365 Starry Nights Chet Raymo 1982 American English
17151 Black Holes And Time Warps Kip S. Thorne 1994 American English
17151 The Alchemy Of The Heavens Ken Croswell 1995 American English
17151 The Black Hole War Leonard Susskind 2008 American English
17151 Phantoms In The Brain Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee 1998 American English
17151 Charged Up Jacqui Bailey 2004 British English
17151 The Periodic Table Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher 2007 British English
17151 Hyperspace Michio Kaku 1994 American English
17151 Basic Physics Karl F. Kuhn 1996 American English
17151 The Magic Furnace Marcus Chown 1999 British English
17151 Six Easy Pieces Richard P. Feynman 1994 American English
17151 The Cosmic Landscape Leonard Susskind 2005 American English
17151 Five Ages Of The Universe Fred C. Adams, Greg Laughlin 1999 American English
17151 The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin 2006 American English
17151 Darwin Among The Machines George B. Dyson 1997 American English
17151 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
17151 The Mighty Micro Christopher Evans 1979 British English
17151 The Tangled Wing Melvin Konner 1982 American English
17151 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
17151 The Master Switch Tim Wu 2010 American English
17151 Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications Of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky 1980 American English
17151 Code Dependent Madhumita Murgia 2024 British Unknown
17072 The Law Of Presidential Impeachment Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1974 American English
17151 Private Equity Carrie Sun 2024 Unknown English
17125 Initiation Into Hermetics Franz Bardon 1962 Czech German
17151 The History Of Information Chris Haughton 2024 Unknown English
17151 Ai Snake Oil Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor 2024 Unknown English
17151 Ben Hogan's Five Lessons Ben Hogan, Herbert Warren Wind 1957 American English
17151 The Science Of Hitting Ted Williams, John Underwood 1971 American English
17151 Why Machines Learn Anil Ananthaswamy 2024 Unknown English
17105 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17151 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English
17151 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17151 The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. Thomas Tufte 1983 Unknown English
17151 The Things We Make Bill Hammack 2023 Unknown English
17151 Building Science Graphics Jen Christiansen 2023 Unknown English
17151 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17151 Trading In The Zone Mark Douglas 2000 American English
16981 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham 1934 American English
17151 Evidence Based Physical Diagnosis Steven McGee MD 2001 Unknown English
17151 How To Read A Paper Adam Greenhalgh 1999 Unknown Unknown
17151 Competitive Strategy Michael E. Porter 1980 American English
17151 Framed Ink Marcos Mateu-Mestre 2010 Unknown English
17151 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
17151 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17151 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Steven Hayes 1999 American English