The Greatest Technical Books Since 1927

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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
10952 Spillover David Quammen 2012 American English
10969 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
10972 The Two Mile Time Machine Richard Alley 2000 American English
11300 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11533 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American 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
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
13212 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
13360 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Ii Richard P. Feynman 1964 American English
13360 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Iii Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
13360 The New Science Of Strong Materials J. E. Gordon 1968 British English
13523 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
15612 Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 American English
15902 The Engineering of Consent Edward Bernays 1947 American English
15902 Uncertainty Principle Werner Heisenberg 1927 German Unknown
15902 Conditioned Reflexes Ivan Pavlov 1927 Russian Russian
15902 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior John Von Neumann 1944 American English
15902 The Beveridge Report William Beveridge 1942 British English
16597 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16658 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
17131 The Science Of The Mind Owen J. Flanagan 1984 American English
17131 The Dreams Of Reason Heinz R. Pagels 1988 American English
17131 Big Bang Simon Singh 2004 British English
17131 Turn Left At Orion Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis 1989 American English
17131 The Backyard Astronomer's Guide Terence Dickinson 1991 Canadian English
17131 365 Starry Nights Chet Raymo 1982 American English
17131 Black Holes And Time Warps Kip S. Thorne 1994 American English
17131 The Alchemy Of The Heavens Ken Croswell 1995 American English
17131 The Black Hole War Leonard Susskind 2008 American English
17131 Phantoms In The Brain Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee 1998 American English
17131 Charged Up Jacqui Bailey 2004 British English
17131 The Periodic Table Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher 2007 British English
17131 Hyperspace Michio Kaku 1994 American English
17131 Basic Physics Karl F. Kuhn 1996 American English
17131 The Magic Furnace Marcus Chown 1999 British English
17131 Six Easy Pieces Richard P. Feynman 1994 American English
17131 The Cosmic Landscape Leonard Susskind 2005 American English
17131 Five Ages Of The Universe Fred C. Adams, Greg Laughlin 1999 American English
17131 The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin 2006 American English
17131 Darwin Among The Machines George B. Dyson 1997 American English
17131 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
17131 The Mighty Micro Christopher Evans 1979 British English
17131 The Tangled Wing Melvin Konner 1982 American English
17131 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
17131 The Master Switch Tim Wu 2010 American English
17131 Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications Of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky 1980 American English
17131 Code Dependent Madhumita Murgia 2024 British Unknown
17032 The Law Of Presidential Impeachment Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1974 American English
17131 Private Equity Carrie Sun 2024 Unknown English
17124 Initiation Into Hermetics Franz Bardon 1962 Czech German
17131 The History Of Information Chris Haughton 2024 Unknown English
17131 Ai Snake Oil Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor 2024 Unknown English
17131 Ben Hogan's Five Lessons Ben Hogan, Herbert Warren Wind 1957 American English
17131 The Science Of Hitting Ted Williams, John Underwood 1971 American English
17131 Why Machines Learn Anil Ananthaswamy 2024 Unknown English
17080 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17131 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English
17131 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17131 The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. Thomas Tufte 1983 Unknown English
17131 The Things We Make Bill Hammack 2023 Unknown English
17131 Building Science Graphics Jen Christiansen 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17131 Trading In The Zone Mark Douglas 2000 American English
16948 Security Analysis Benjamin Graham 1934 American English
17131 Evidence Based Physical Diagnosis Steven McGee MD 2001 Unknown English
17131 How To Read A Paper Adam Greenhalgh 1999 Unknown Unknown
17131 Competitive Strategy Michael E. Porter 1980 American English
17131 Framed Ink Marcos Mateu-Mestre 2010 Unknown English
17131 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
17131 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17131 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Steven Hayes 1999 American English