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
14983 Alif The Unseen G. Willow Wilson 2012 American English
14983 The Sudden Appearance Of Hope Claire North 2016 British English
14983 Orbitsville Bob Shaw 1975 British English
14983 Engine Summer John Crowley 1979 American English
14983 Humble Pi Matt Parker 2019 British English
14983 Foundation And Earth Isaac Asimov 1986 American English
14983 Flash Boys Michael M. Lewis 2014 American English
14983 Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan 2012 American English
14983 River Of Gods Ian McDonald 2004 British English
14983 The Long Earth Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter 2012 British English
14983 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 2002 British English
14983 The Rediscovery Of Man Cordwainer Smith 1975 American English
14983 The Extremes Christopher Priest 1998 British English
14983 Feersum Endjinn Iain Banks 1994 British English
14983 Artemis Andy Weir 2017 American English
14983 Deception Point Dan Brown 2001 American English
14983 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14983 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
14983 A Psalm For The Wild Built Becky Chambers 2021 American English
14969 The Stepford Wives Ira Levin 1972 American English
14983 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14983 The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar 2024 English
14983 The Wright Brothers David McCullough 2015 American English
14983 A City On Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith 2023 Unknown English
14983 Genentech Sally Smith Hughes 2009 Unknown English
14983 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
15559 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
15559 Loonshots Safi Bahcall 2019 American English
15559 The Moment Of Lift Melinda Gates 2019 American English
15559 Tools And Weapons Brad Smith 2019 American English
15559 Hacking Darwin Jamie Metzl 2019 American English
15559 Growth Vaclav Smil 2019 Canadian English
15559 Good Economics For Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2019 American English
15579 The Alien Realm Bo Yang 1996 Chinese Unknown
15586 Broken Genius Joel N. Shurkin 2020 American English
15608 Play Nice But Win Michael Dell 2021 American English
15608 How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates 2021 American English
15608 Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 American English
15629 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
15630 Planet Magnon Leif Randt 2015 German German
15634 How The World Really Works Vaclav Smil 2022 Canadian English
15659 Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 American English
15725 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15743 Fahrenheit 451 Tim Hamilton 1953 American English
15745 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15836 Cities In Flight James Blish 1950 American English
15897 Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead 1925 British English
16499 The Machine Stops E. M. Forster 1909 British English
15897 Enterprise Stardust K. H. Scheer 1961 German German
15897 Simulacron 3 Daniel F. Galouye 1964 American English
15897 Judgment Night C. L. Moore 1952 American English
15897 A Genius In The Family Hiram Percy Maxim 1934 American English
15897 Black On White M. Ilin 1932 Russian Russian
15897 The Social Function Of Science J. D. Bernal 1939 British English
15897 The Machine In The Garden Leo Marx 1964 American English
15897 The Air Conditioned Nightmare Henry Miller 1945 American English
15897 Technics And Civilization Lewis Mumford 1934 American English
15897 10,000 Light Years From Home James Tiptree Jr. 1973 American English
16502 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
15897 Brain Wave Poul Anderson 1954 American English
16580 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16679 The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
16738 The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey 1969 American English
16677 Orphans Of The Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1941 American English
16685 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16611 The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958 American English
17117 Weapons and Hope Freeman Dyson 1984 American English
17117 Double Fold Nicholson Baker 2001 American English
17117 The Measure of Man Joseph Wood Krutch 1954 American English
17117 The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 Robert V. Bruce 1987 American English
17117 Moondust Andrew Smith 2005 British English
17117 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17117 District and Circle Seamus Heaney 2006 Irish English
17117 The Victory at Sea William Sowden Sims 1920 American English
17117 Scientists Against Time James Phinney Baxter III 1946 American English
17117 The Visible Hand Alfred D. Chandler, Jr 1977 American English
17117 The Heavens and the Earth Walter A. McDougall 1985 American English
17117 The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs 1962 American English
17117 Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson 1988 American English
17117 Lookout cartridge Joseph McElroy 1974 American English
17117 Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin 1985 American English
17117 The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus 1995 American English
17117 You Bright and Risen Angels William T. Vollmann 1987 American English
17117 Easy Travel to Other Planets Ted Mooney 1981 American English
17117 Recollected Essays Wendell Berry 1981 American English
17117 Entropy Jeremy Rifkin, Ted Howard 1980 American English
17117 The Invented Part Rodrigo Fresán 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17117 Titan John Varley 1979 American English
17117 The Integral Trees Larry Niven 1984 American English
17117 The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons 1997 American English
17117 Accelerando Charles Stross 2005 British English
17117 Boneshaker Cherie Priest 2009 American English
17117 Embassytown China Miéville 2011 British English
17117 The Child Garden Geoff Ryman 1989 British English
17117 Fairyland Paul J. McAuley 1995 British English
17117 The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh 1995 Indian English
17117 Dreaming In Smoke Tricia Sullivan 1999 British English
17117 Distraction Bruce Sterling 1998 American English
17117 Nova Swing M. John Harrison 2006 British English
17117 Black Man Richard Morgan 2007 British English
17117 Dreams Before The Start Of Time Anne Charnock 2017 British English
17117 The New Animals Pip Adam 2017 New Zealander English
17117 Hip Hop Family Tree Ed Piskor 2013 American English
17117 Black Panther By Ta Nehisi Coates Vol. 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 2016 American English
17117 The Quantum Thief Hannu Rajaniemi 2010 Finnish English
17117 Vn Madeline Ashby 2012 Canadian English
17117 On Basilisk Station David Weber 1993 American English
17117 The Reality Dysfunction Peter F. Hamilton 1996 British English
17117 Sundiver David Brin 1980 American English
17117 Burning Chrome William Gibson 1986 Canadian English
17117 Friday Robert A. Heinlein 1982 American English
17117 The Songs Of Distant Earth Arthur C. Clarke 1986 British English
16824 From The Earth To The Moon Jules Verne 1865 French French
16897 The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison 1961 American English
16909 The White Mountains John Christopher 1967 British English
17117 The Engines Of God Jack McDevitt 1994 American English
17117 Armor John Steakley 1984 American English
17040 The Man Who Sold The Moon Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
17051 Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1962 American English
17063 Logan's Run William F. Nolan 1967 American English