The Greatest Books of All Time on Technology

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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
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
254 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
361 Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
372 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
377 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1907 American English
411 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
441 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
455 V Thomas Pynchon 1963 American English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
681 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963 American English
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
728 Erewhon Samuel Butler 1872 British English
758 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 1957 American English
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
841 Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 British English
884 Homo Faber Max Frisch 1957 Swiss German
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
951 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
980 News from Nowhere William Morris 1890 British English
993 Essays of E. B. White E. B. White 1977 American English
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1038 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
1048 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy 1984 American English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
1286 The Invention Of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares 1940 Argentinian Spanish
1323 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
1352 The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton 1969 American English
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
1486 Locus Solus Raymond Roussel 1914 French French
1531 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
1542 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English
1545 Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan 1964 Canadian English
1624 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1625 The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 American English
1698 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
1738 The Bedbug And Selected Poetry Vladimir Mayakovsky 1920 Russian Russian
1749 First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Russian Russian
1762 Small Is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher 1973 British English
1775 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1883 Chariots Of The Gods Erich Von Däniken 1968 German German
1893 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 1981 American English
1953 Titus Alone Mervyn Peake 1959 British English
1976 Towards A New Architecture Le Corbusier 1923 French French
2017 Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980 British English
2048 Amusing Ourselves To Death Neil Postman 1985 American English
2085 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
2093 The Spirit of St. Louis Charles Lindbergh 1953 American English
2145 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
2147 Aniara Harry Martinson 1956 Swedish Swedish
2189 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
2196 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
2234 Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 British English
2237 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 American English
2296 The Limits To Growth Donella H. Meadows 1972 American English
2304 Giles Goat-Boy John Barth 1966 American English
2326 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
2336 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
2352 Contact Carl Sagan 1985 American English
2413 The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956 American English
2428 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999 American English
2432 The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 American English
2445 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2464 Non Stop Brian Aldiss 1958 British English
2469 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
2476 Quatermass And The Pit Nigel Kneale 1959 British English
2494 Rogue Moon Algis Budrys 1960 American English
2513 Deathbird Stories Harlan Ellison 1975 American English
2566 The Caves Of Steel Isaac Asimov 1954 American English
2609 Whatever Michel Houellebecq 1994 French French
2618 The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker 1988 American English
2712 Mission Of Gravity Hal Clement 1954 American English
2822 Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky 1972 Russian Russian
2898 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
2929 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
2934 The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution C. P. Snow 1959 British English
3002 The Monkey's Wrench Primo Levi 1978 Italian Italian
3101 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3106 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams 1987 British English
3119 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
3158 Who Made Stevie Crye? Michael Bishop 1984 American English
3209 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3225 Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3269 Postmortem Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1990 American English
3292 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3323 Insatiability Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 1930 Polish Polish
3408 The Glass Bees Ernst Jünger 1957 German German
3430 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
3434 On Wings Of Song Thomas M. Disch 1979 American English
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3565 Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 1905 Bangladeshi Bengali
3593 The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years Chinghiz Aitmatov 1980 Kyrgyz Russian
3617 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
3622 The Atrocity Exhibition J. G. Ballard 1970 British English
3637 The Future Has Already Begun Robert Jungk 1952 Austrian German
3833 The Obsolescence Of Man Günther Anders 1956 German German
3839 Gog Andrew Sinclair 1967 British English
3857 The Silent World Jacques Cousteau 1953 French French
3887 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 American English
3943 A Fire on the Moon Norman Mailer 1970 American English
4145 Krapp's Last Tape Samuel Beckett 1958 Irish English
4149 The Tale Of Cross Eyed Lefty From Tula And The Steel Flea Nikolai Leskov 1881 Russian Russian
4257 Jack Of Shadows Roger Zelazny 1971 American English
4309 Vril Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1871 British English
4309 After London; Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1885 British English