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
11293 You Are Not A Gadget Jaron Lanier 2010 American English
11298 A Year Brian Eno 2022 British Unknown
11303 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11308 The Immortals René Barjavel 1960 French French
11317 Private Citizens Tony Tulathimutte 2016 American English
11354 The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 2021 American English
11364 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11407 Here Gather the Stars Clifford D. Simak 1963 American English
11413 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm 1976 American English
11413 Spin Robert Charles Wilson 2005 Canadian English
11426 Ice Station Matthew Reilly 1998 Australian English
11438 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11443 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
11506 How To Build A Time Machine Paul Davies 2002 British English
11520 Spelunky Derek Yu 2015 American English
11534 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11546 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
11569 Ghostwritten David Mitchell 1999 British English
11631 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11661 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
11662 The Fate Of The Earth Jonathan Schell 1982 American English
11662 Roger's Version John Updike 1986 American English
11797 The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge 1980 American English
11802 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11833 Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey 2014 American English
11841 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11864 More Happy Than Not Adam Silvera 2015 American English
11872 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
11875 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
11924 Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology Andre Gorz 1991 French French
11923 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11926 Nemesis Games James S. A. Corey 2015 American English
11935 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
11940 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael I. Pupin 1923 American English
11940 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1955 American English
12040 Crash Override Zoë Quinn 2017 American English
12077 Rosewater Tade Thompson 2016 Nigerian English
12077 Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee 2016 American English
12082 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12144 The History Manifesto Johanna Hanink 2014 American English
12149 The Secret Family David Bodanis 1997 Unknown English
12161 Searches Vauhini Vara 2025 Unknown English
12167 Mood Machine Liz Pelly 2025 Unknown English
12177 Algorithms Of Oppression Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 American English
12188 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12206 Apple In China Patrick McGee 2025 Unknown English
12226 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12226 Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey 2017 American English
12250 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
12259 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12251 Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea Gary Kinder 1998 American English
12299 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12311 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12326 Stalin And The Bomb David Holloway 1994 American English
12326 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
12383 New Money Lana Swartz 2020 Unknown English
12401 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
12428 The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet Jeff Kosseff 2019 American English
12436 The Technological Republic Alexander C. Karp Unknown English
12443 You Look Like A Thing And I Love You Janelle Shane 2019 American English
12482 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
12488 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12505 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12515 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12549 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12564 Breakneck Dan Wang Unknown English
12585 Scarecrow Matthew Reilly 2003 Australian English
12588 Geeks Jon Katz 2000 American English
12620 We Computers Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega 2025 Unknown English
12644 The Restless Clock Jessica Riskin 2016 American English
12698 No Filter Sarah Frier 2020 American English
12700 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
12726 The Shock of the New Robert Hughes 1980 Australian English
12727 Tiamat's Wrath James S. A. Corey 2019 American English
12735 Space James A. Michener 1982 American English
12866 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
12917 Like, Comment, Subscribe Mark Bergen 2022 Unknown English
12925 Second Life Amanda Hess 2025 Unknown English
12973 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
12989 The Hour Of The Predator Giuliano da Empoli 2025 Unknown English
12999 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
13017 House Of Huawei Eva Dou 2025 American English
13018 The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt 2025 Unknown English
13082 More Everything Forever Adam Becker 2025 American English
13209 You Have A New Memory Aiden Arata 2025 Unknown English
13141 The Confessions Paul Bradley Carr 2025 Unknown English
13214 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
13239 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
13239 The Last Emperox John Scalzi 2020 American English
13286 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13288 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13315 Everything I Need I Get From You Kaitlyn Tiffany 2022 Unknown English
13321 A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge 1999 American English
13321 Rainbows End Vernor Vinge 2006 American English
13340 The Radioactive Boy Scout Ken Silverstein 2004 American English
13352 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13362 The Skylark Of Space Edward Elmer Smith 1928 American English
13362 Aelita Alexei Tolstoy 1923 Russian Russian
13362 Andromeda Ivan Yefremov 1957 Russian Russian
13505 Humanist Manifesto 2000 Paul Kurtz 1999 American English
13523 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
13524 The Girl From The Earth Kirill Bulytsev 1960 Russian Russian
13533 Noon, 22nd Century Arkady Strugatsky 1961 Russian Russian
13533 The Path Between The Seas David McCullough 1977 American English
13553 Tell The Machine Goodnight Katie Williams 2018 American English
13560 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
13559 The Inverted World Christopher Priest 1974 British English
13566 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 American English
13567 J Pod Douglas Coupland 2006 Canadian English
13600 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13712 The Aerodrome Rex Warner 1941 British English
13731 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
13739 The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling 1990 American English
13743 Menschen Wie Götter Sergej Snegow 1966 Russian Russian
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13765 Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008 American English
13794 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
13803 Les Racines Du Mal Maurice G. Dantec 1995 French French
13818 The Worldwide Machine Paolo Volponi 1965 Italian Unknown
13886 Raven Stratagem Yoon Ha Lee 2017 American English