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
4431 One Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse 1964 German English
4455 The City in History Lewis Mumford 1961 American English
4492 Niourk Stefan Wul 1957 French French
4498 The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry 1977 American English
4499 The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers Paul Kennedy 1987 British English
4528 The Medium Is The Massage Marshall McLuhan 1967 Canadian English
4582 Antiworlds Andrey Voznesensky 1964 Russian Russian
4592 Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 British English
4622 Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 French French
4644 Micrographia Robert Hooke 1665 British English
4646 The Face Of Another Kobo Abé 1964 Japanese Japanese
4814 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4824 He, She and It Marge Piercy 1991 American English
4890 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
4900 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
4979 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5006 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5009 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5025 The City And The Mountains Eça de Queirós 1901 Portuguese Portuguese
5155 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5253 Carnacki The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson 1913 British English
5274 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
5334 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
5375 Packing For Mars Mary Roach 2010 American English
5393 New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1627 British English
5475 Working Studs Terkel 1974 American English
5477 Inherit The Stars James P. Hogan 1977 American English
5500 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5529 The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 1991 American English
5531 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5577 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5608 The Imperative Of Responsibility Hans Jonas 1979 German German
5617 Shadow 81 Lucien Nahum 1978 American English
5621 Wealth and Poverty George Gilder 1981 American English
5643 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
5657 Soul Eater K. W. Jeter 1983 American English
5657 Tea With The Black Dragon R. A. MacAvoy 1983 American English
5663 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5682 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5722 Youth J. M. Coetzee 2002 South African English
5739 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5804 Illuminations Walter Benjamin 1968 German German
5906 The First Men In The Moon H. G. Wells 1901 British English
5931 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5934 Small Fry Lisa Brennan-Jobs 2018 American English
5939 The Turning Point Fritjof Capra 1982 American English
5960 The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 British English
5960 Microserfs Douglas Coupland 1995 Canadian English
5978 1491 Charles C. Mann 2005 American English
5987 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
5999 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6005 Pylon William Faulkner 1935 American English
6089 The End Of The World News Anthony Burgess 1982 British English
6091 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6156 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
6206 Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson 1994 British English
6214 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
6254 The Craftsman Richard Sennett 2008 American English
6266 So Laßt Uns Denn Ein Apfelbäumchen Pflanzen Hoimar von Ditfurth 1985 German German
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6326 The New Kings Of Nonfiction Ira Glass 2007 American English
6353 The Shallows Nicolas Carr 2010 American English
6414 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6459 Science and Civilisation in China Joseph Needham 1954 British English
6462 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
6514 The Control Revolution James R. Beniger 1986 American English
6617 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 2000 British English
6652 Fail Safe Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler 1962 American English
6671 Future Shock Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
6704 Collected essays Aldous Huxley 1958 British English
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6734 The Poverty of Power Barry Commoner 1976 American English
6737 Emergence Steven Johnson 2001 American English
6760 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
7168 Timeline Michael Crichton 1999 American English
7216 The Two-Ocean War Samuel Eliot Morison 1963 American English
7216 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars Ellen Macgregor 1951 American English
7216 R.U.R. Karel Čapek 1920 Czech Czech
7568 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7577 The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen 1997 American English
7579 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 1981 American English
7582 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7616 Everything Bad Is Good For You Steven Johnson 2005 American English
7650 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7688 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7732 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
7752 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
7779 The Cold Moon Jeffrey Deaver 2006 American English
7785 Close To The Machine Ellen Ullman 1997 American English
7793 The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972 American English
7799 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
7799 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
7809 Twilight of the Superheroes Deborah Eisenberg 2006 American English
7876 World's Fair E. L. Doctorow 1985 American English
7878 The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke 1979 British English
7878 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7897 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7925 Myths Of The Near Future J. G. Ballard 1982 British English
7929 Abundance Ezra Klein 2025 American English
7953 The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
8021 The Rise And Fall Of American Growth Robert J. Gordon 2016 American English
8072 Taipei Tao Lin 2013 American English
8073 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8233 The Unabomber Manifesto Theodore Kaczynski 1995 American English
8247 Old Times On The Mississippi Mark Twain 1876 American English
8322 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English