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
4430 One Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse 1964 German English
4454 The City in History Lewis Mumford 1961 American English
4490 Niourk Stefan Wul 1957 French French
4496 The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry 1977 American English
4497 The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers Paul Kennedy 1987 British English
4526 The Medium Is The Massage Marshall McLuhan 1967 Canadian English
4580 Antiworlds Andrey Voznesensky 1964 Russian Russian
4590 Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 British English
4620 Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 French French
4642 Micrographia Robert Hooke 1665 British English
4644 The Face Of Another Kobo Abé 1964 Japanese Japanese
4812 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4822 He, She and It Marge Piercy 1991 American English
4888 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
4898 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
4976 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5002 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5005 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5021 The City And The Mountains Eça de Queirós 1901 Portuguese Portuguese
5152 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5251 Carnacki The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson 1913 British English
5272 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
5332 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
5373 Packing For Mars Mary Roach 2010 American English
5390 New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1627 British English
5472 Working Studs Terkel 1974 American English
5474 Inherit The Stars James P. Hogan 1977 American English
5497 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5527 The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 1991 American English
5529 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5575 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5605 The Imperative Of Responsibility Hans Jonas 1979 German German
5614 Shadow 81 Lucien Nahum 1978 American English
5618 Wealth and Poverty George Gilder 1981 American English
5640 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
5654 Soul Eater K. W. Jeter 1983 American English
5654 Tea With The Black Dragon R. A. MacAvoy 1983 American English
5660 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5679 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
5715 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5719 Youth J. M. Coetzee 2002 South African English
5736 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5801 Illuminations Walter Benjamin 1968 German German
5903 The First Men In The Moon H. G. Wells 1901 British English
5928 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5930 Small Fry Lisa Brennan-Jobs 2018 American English
5935 The Turning Point Fritjof Capra 1982 American English
5956 The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 British English
5956 Microserfs Douglas Coupland 1995 Canadian English
5974 1491 Charles C. Mann 2005 American English
5983 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
5995 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6002 Pylon William Faulkner 1935 American English
6086 The End Of The World News Anthony Burgess 1982 British English
6088 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6153 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
6202 Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson 1994 British English
6210 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
6251 The Craftsman Richard Sennett 2008 American English
6263 So Laßt Uns Denn Ein Apfelbäumchen Pflanzen Hoimar von Ditfurth 1985 German German
6309 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6323 The New Kings Of Nonfiction Ira Glass 2007 American English
6350 The Shallows Nicolas Carr 2010 American English
6411 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6457 Science and Civilisation in China Joseph Needham 1954 British English
6460 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
6512 The Control Revolution James R. Beniger 1986 American English
6615 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 2000 British English
6650 Fail Safe Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler 1962 American English
6670 Future Shock Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
6703 Collected essays Aldous Huxley 1958 British English
6709 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6733 The Poverty of Power Barry Commoner 1976 American English
6736 Emergence Steven Johnson 2001 American English
6759 Bold As Love Gwyneth Jones 2001 British English
6843 A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor 2010 British English
6890 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6957 The Fifth Risk Michael M. Lewis 2018 American English
7016 Original Bliss A. L. Kennedy 1997 British English
7043 The Cosmic Connection Carl Sagan 1973 American English
7045 Invention Norbert Wiener 1948 American English
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7103 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7106 Technopoly Neil Postman 1992 American English
7126 Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany 1966 American English
7152 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
7167 Timeline Michael Crichton 1999 American English
7215 The Two-Ocean War Samuel Eliot Morison 1963 American English
7215 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars Ellen Macgregor 1951 American English
7215 R.U.R. Karel Čapek 1920 Czech Czech
7567 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7576 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen 1997 American English
7578 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 1981 American English
7581 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7615 Everything Bad Is Good For You Steven Johnson 2005 American English
7649 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7687 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7730 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
7750 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
7777 The Cold Moon Jeffrey Deaver 2006 American English
7783 Close To The Machine Ellen Ullman 1997 American English
7791 The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972 American English
7797 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
7797 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
7808 Twilight of the Superheroes Deborah Eisenberg 2006 American English
7875 World's Fair E. L. Doctorow 1985 American English
7877 The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke 1979 British English
7877 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7896 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7924 Myths Of The Near Future J. G. Ballard 1982 British English
7928 Abundance Ezra Klein 2025 American English
7952 The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
8020 The Rise And Fall Of American Growth Robert J. Gordon 2016 American English
8071 Taipei Tao Lin 2013 American English
8072 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8231 The Unabomber Manifesto Theodore Kaczynski 1995 American English
8245 Old Times On The Mississippi Mark Twain 1876 American English
8320 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English