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
8324 The Night Sessions Ken MacLeod 2008 Scottish English
8395 Science Fiction And Fantasy Reference Index, 1878 1985 And Supplements H. W. Hall 1987 American English
8441 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8461 The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010 American English
8500 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
8512 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8531 Man Plus Frederik Pohl 1976 American English
8566 The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism Daniel Bell 1976 American English
8634 The Whole Internet Ed Krol 1992 American English
8641 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8661 The Bridge Hart Crane 1930 American English
8809 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8877 Mockingbird Walter Tevis 1980 American English
8903 Twice Shy Dick Francis 1981 British English
8971 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8985 Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold 1988 American English
8989 The Deal Of The Century Steve Coll 1986 American English
9032 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9054 Challenger Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9063 Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz 2000 British English
9111 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9127 Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris 2010 British English
9176 Off To Be The Wizard Scott Meyer 2013 English
9188 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9188 The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman 2014 American English
9188 Hit Makers Derek Thompson 2017 American English
9188 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9219 Slan A. E. van Vogt 1940 Canadian English
9249 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
9251 To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer 1971 American English
9258 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9277 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
9311 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9321 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9331 The Mind Invaders Dave Hunt 1998 American English
9332 Showa 1926-1939 Shigeru Mizuki 2009 Japanese Japanese
9366 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
9510 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
9522 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9538 Binti Nnedi Okorafor 2015 Nigerian English
9545 Poems Of John B. Wheelwright John B. Wheelwright 1972 American English
9582 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 American English
9635 Being There Andy Clark 1996 Unknown English
9644 Sentinel Syd Mead 1979 Unknown English
9686 The Code Book Simon Singh 1999 British English
9700 Extra Lives Tom Bissell 2010 American English
9696 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
9719 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
9740 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9797 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9818 The Precipice Toby Ord 2020 British English
9901 A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 2019 American English
9921 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
9944 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
9972 Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple 2012 American English
10025 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Hank Green 2018 American English
10076 Give People Money Annie Lowrey 2018 American English
10081 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10090 Time Enough For Love Robert A. Heinlein 1973 American English
10134 Dealers Of Lightning Michael Hiltzik 2000 American English
10135 Running Dog Don DeLillo 1978 American English
10157 Transmission Hari Kunzru 2004 British English
10205 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10272 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10276 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
10281 The Ascent Of Man Jacob Bronowski 1973 British English
10303 Mechanization Takes Command Sigfried Giedion 1948 Mixed English
10303 Russia El Lissitsky 1930 Russian Russian
10360 A Desolation Called Peace Arkady Martine 2021 American English
10374 Nuclear War Annie Jacobsen 2024 Unknown Unknown
10422 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
10428 A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 1992 American English
10436 There Must Be A Pony In Here Somewhere Kara Swisher 2003 American English
10448 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10448 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10492 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10529 Ai Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee 2018 Chinese English
10534 Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams 2025 Unknown English
10549 The Burning Earth Sunil Amrith 2024 Unknown English
10566 Caliban's War James S. A. Corey 2012 American English
10613 Wrong About Japan Peter Carey 2005 Australian English
10609 Ships Of The Sky Gunnar Gunnarsson 1938 Icelandic Unknown
10636 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
10657 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10683 Your Face Belongs To Us Kashmir Hill 2024 American English
10744 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
10762 Before The Oil Ran Out Ian Jack 1987 British English
10811 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
10818 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10834 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
10839 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10868 Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez​​ 2019 British English
10900 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10911 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
10965 The Wall Of Storms Ken Liu 2016 American English
10966 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
10972 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
10990 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11012 Desolation Island Adolfo García Ortega 2014 Spanish Unknown
11032 Empire Of Ai Karen Hao 2025 American English
11038 Les Turbines Du Titanic Robert Perišić 2015 Unknown French
11043 Boy Kings Kate Losse 2012 Unknown English
11046 An Imagined World June Goodfield 1981 British English
11057 The Red Grass Boris Vian 1949 French French
11106 Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick 1991 American English
11106 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11106 Slow River Nicola Griffith 1995 British English
11106 The Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon 2003 American English
11106 Camouflage Joe Haldeman 2004 American English
11106 Seeker Jack McDevitt 2005 American English
11106 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson 2012 American English
11106 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11133 Ravage René Barjavel 1943 French French
11134 So Human an Animal René Dubos 1968 French English
11156 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11171 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11203 The Pilgrimage Of Western Man Stringfellow Barr 1949 American English
11223 Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold 2001 American English
11228 The Mote In God's Eye Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1974 American English
11267 The Turn Of The Key Ruth Ware 2019 British English