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
11287 You Are Not A Gadget Jaron Lanier 2010 American English
11292 A Year Brian Eno 2022 British Unknown
11297 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11302 The Immortals René Barjavel 1960 French French
11311 Private Citizens Tony Tulathimutte 2016 American English
11348 The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green 2021 American English
11359 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11402 Here Gather the Stars Clifford D. Simak 1963 American English
11408 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm 1976 American English
11408 Spin Robert Charles Wilson 2005 Canadian English
11421 Ice Station Matthew Reilly 1998 Australian English
11433 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11438 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
11504 How To Build A Time Machine Paul Davies 2002 British English
11518 Spelunky Derek Yu 2015 American English
11532 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11544 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
11568 Ghostwritten David Mitchell 1999 British English
11629 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11659 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
11660 The Fate Of The Earth Jonathan Schell 1982 American English
11660 Roger's Version John Updike 1986 American English
11796 The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge 1980 American English
11801 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11832 Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey 2014 American English
11840 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11863 More Happy Than Not Adam Silvera 2015 American English
11871 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
11874 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
11923 Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology Andre Gorz 1991 French French
11922 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11925 Nemesis Games James S. A. Corey 2015 American English
11934 Super Pumped Mike Isaac 2019 American English
11939 From Immigrant to Inventor Michael I. Pupin 1923 American English
11939 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1955 American English
12039 Crash Override Zoë Quinn 2017 American English
12076 Rosewater Tade Thompson 2016 Nigerian English
12076 Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee 2016 American English
12081 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12143 The History Manifesto Johanna Hanink 2014 American English
12148 The Secret Family David Bodanis 1997 Unknown English
12160 Searches Vauhini Vara 2025 Unknown English
12166 Mood Machine Liz Pelly 2025 Unknown English
12176 Algorithms Of Oppression Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 American English
12187 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12205 Apple In China Patrick McGee 2025 Unknown English
12225 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12225 Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey 2017 American English
12249 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
12258 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12250 Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea Gary Kinder 1998 American English
12298 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12310 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12324 Stalin And The Bomb David Holloway 1994 American English
12324 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
12381 New Money Lana Swartz 2020 Unknown English
12399 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
12426 The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet Jeff Kosseff 2019 American English
12434 The Technological Republic Alexander C. Karp Unknown English
12441 You Look Like A Thing And I Love You Janelle Shane 2019 American English
12480 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
12486 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12503 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12513 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12547 Picks And Shovels Cory Doctorow 2025 Canadian English
12562 Breakneck Dan Wang Unknown English
12583 Scarecrow Matthew Reilly 2003 Australian English
12586 Geeks Jon Katz 2000 American English
12618 We Computers Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega 2025 Unknown English
12642 The Restless Clock Jessica Riskin 2016 American English
12696 No Filter Sarah Frier 2020 American English
12698 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
12724 The Shock of the New Robert Hughes 1980 Australian English
12725 Tiamat's Wrath James S. A. Corey 2019 American English
12733 Space James A. Michener 1982 American English
12864 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
12915 Like, Comment, Subscribe Mark Bergen 2022 Unknown English
12922 Second Life Amanda Hess 2025 Unknown English
12970 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
12986 The Hour Of The Predator Giuliano da Empoli 2025 Unknown English
12996 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
13014 House Of Huawei Eva Dou 2025 American English
13015 The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt 2025 Unknown English
13079 More Everything Forever Adam Becker 2025 American English
13206 You Have A New Memory Aiden Arata 2025 Unknown English
13138 The Confessions Paul Bradley Carr 2025 Unknown English
13211 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
13236 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
13236 The Last Emperox John Scalzi 2020 American English
13283 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13285 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13312 Everything I Need I Get From You Kaitlyn Tiffany 2022 Unknown English
13318 A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge 1999 American English
13318 Rainbows End Vernor Vinge 2006 American English
13337 The Radioactive Boy Scout Ken Silverstein 2004 American English
13349 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13359 The Skylark Of Space Edward Elmer Smith 1928 American English
13359 Aelita Alexei Tolstoy 1923 Russian Russian
13359 Andromeda Ivan Yefremov 1957 Russian Russian
13503 Humanist Manifesto 2000 Paul Kurtz 1999 American English
13521 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
13522 The Girl From The Earth Kirill Bulytsev 1960 Russian Russian
13532 Noon, 22nd Century Arkady Strugatsky 1961 Russian Russian
13532 The Path Between The Seas David McCullough 1977 American English
13552 Tell The Machine Goodnight Katie Williams 2018 American English
13559 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
13558 The Inverted World Christopher Priest 1974 British English
13565 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 American English
13566 J Pod Douglas Coupland 2006 Canadian English
13599 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13711 The Aerodrome Rex Warner 1941 British English
13730 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
13738 The Difference Engine William Gibson, Bruce Sterling 1990 American English
13742 Menschen Wie Götter Sergej Snegow 1966 Russian Russian
13748 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13764 Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008 American English
13793 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
13802 Les Racines Du Mal Maurice G. Dantec 1995 French French
13817 The Worldwide Machine Paolo Volponi 1965 Italian Unknown
13885 Raven Stratagem Yoon Ha Lee 2017 American English