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
8326 The Night Sessions Ken MacLeod 2008 Scottish English
8398 Science Fiction And Fantasy Reference Index, 1878 1985 And Supplements H. W. Hall 1987 American English
8445 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8466 The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010 American English
8505 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
8516 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8535 Man Plus Frederik Pohl 1976 American English
8570 The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism Daniel Bell 1976 American English
8638 The Whole Internet Ed Krol 1992 American English
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8665 The Bridge Hart Crane 1930 American English
8814 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8881 Mockingbird Walter Tevis 1980 American English
8907 Twice Shy Dick Francis 1981 British English
8975 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8989 Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold 1988 American English
8993 The Deal Of The Century Steve Coll 1986 American English
9036 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9059 Challenger Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9068 Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz 2000 British English
9116 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9132 Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris 2010 British English
9180 Off To Be The Wizard Scott Meyer 2013 English
9192 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9192 The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman 2014 American English
9192 Hit Makers Derek Thompson 2017 American English
9192 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9223 Slan A. E. van Vogt 1940 Canadian English
9255 To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer 1971 American English
9253 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
9262 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9282 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
9316 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9326 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9336 The Mind Invaders Dave Hunt 1998 American English
9337 Showa 1926-1939 Shigeru Mizuki 2009 Japanese Japanese
9371 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
9515 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
9527 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9543 Binti Nnedi Okorafor 2015 Nigerian English
9550 Poems Of John B. Wheelwright John B. Wheelwright 1972 American English
9587 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 American English
9639 Being There Andy Clark 1996 Unknown English
9647 Sentinel Syd Mead 1979 Unknown English
9689 The Code Book Simon Singh 1999 British English
9703 Extra Lives Tom Bissell 2010 American English
9699 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
9722 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
9743 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9800 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9821 The Precipice Toby Ord 2020 British English
9904 A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 2019 American English
9925 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
9948 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
9976 Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple 2012 American English
10029 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Hank Green 2018 American English
10081 Give People Money Annie Lowrey 2018 American English
10086 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10095 Time Enough For Love Robert A. Heinlein 1973 American English
10138 Dealers Of Lightning Michael Hiltzik 2000 American English
10139 Running Dog Don DeLillo 1978 American English
10161 Transmission Hari Kunzru 2004 British English
10210 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10277 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10281 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
10286 The Ascent Of Man Jacob Bronowski 1973 British English
10308 Mechanization Takes Command Sigfried Giedion 1948 Mixed English
10308 Russia El Lissitsky 1930 Russian Russian
10365 A Desolation Called Peace Arkady Martine 2021 American English
10379 Nuclear War Annie Jacobsen 2024 Unknown Unknown
10427 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
10433 A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 1992 American English
10441 There Must Be A Pony In Here Somewhere Kara Swisher 2003 American English
10453 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10453 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10497 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10535 Ai Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee 2018 Chinese English
10540 Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams 2025 Unknown English
10555 The Burning Earth Sunil Amrith 2024 Unknown English
10572 Caliban's War James S. A. Corey 2012 American English
10619 Wrong About Japan Peter Carey 2005 Australian English
10615 Ships Of The Sky Gunnar Gunnarsson 1938 Icelandic Unknown
10642 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
10663 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10689 Your Face Belongs To Us Kashmir Hill 2024 American English
10750 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
10768 Before The Oil Ran Out Ian Jack 1987 British English
10817 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
10825 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10840 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
10845 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10874 Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez​​ 2019 British English
10906 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10917 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
10971 The Wall Of Storms Ken Liu 2016 American English
10972 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
10978 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
10996 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11018 Desolation Island Adolfo García Ortega 2014 Spanish Unknown
11038 Empire Of Ai Karen Hao 2025 American English
11044 Les Turbines Du Titanic Robert Perišić 2015 Unknown French
11049 Boy Kings Kate Losse 2012 Unknown English
11052 An Imagined World June Goodfield 1981 British English
11063 The Red Grass Boris Vian 1949 French French
11112 Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick 1991 American English
11112 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11112 Slow River Nicola Griffith 1995 British English
11112 The Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon 2003 American English
11112 Camouflage Joe Haldeman 2004 American English
11112 Seeker Jack McDevitt 2005 American English
11112 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson 2012 American English
11112 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11139 Ravage René Barjavel 1943 French French
11140 So Human an Animal René Dubos 1968 French English
11162 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11177 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11209 The Pilgrimage Of Western Man Stringfellow Barr 1949 American English
11229 Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold 2001 American English
11234 The Mote In God's Eye Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1974 American English
11273 The Turn Of The Key Ruth Ware 2019 British English