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
17117 Earth David Brin 1990 American English
17117 Starfish Peter Watts 1999 Canadian English
17117 Dragon's Egg Robert L. Forward 1980 American English
17117 Such Christine Brooke-Rose 1966 British English
17117 Attrib. And Other Stories Eley Williams 2017 British English
17117 Mapping The Deep Robert Kunzig 2000 American English
17117 Electric Universe David Bodanis 2005 British English
17117 Adventures In The Anthropocene Gaia Vince 2014 British English
17117 Dark Matters Simone Browne 2015 Canadian English
17117 Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin 2019 American English
17117 The Paradox Men Charles L. Harness 1953 American English
17117 Bring The Jubilee Ward Moore 1953 American English
17117 Ring Around The Sun Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
17117 The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett 1955 American English
17117 Journey Beyond Tomorrow Robert Sheckley 1962 American English
17117 Norstrilia Cordwainer Smith 1975 American English
17117 Dr. Bloodmoney Philip K. Dick 1965 American English
17117 The Dream Master Roger Zelazny 1966 American English
17117 The Palace Of Eternity Bob Shaw 1969 British English
17117 Bug Jack Barron Norman Spinrad 1969 American English
17117 The Dancers At The End Of Time Michael Moorcock 1972 British English
17117 Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1987 American English
17117 The Centauri Device M. John Harrison 1974 British English
17117 Michaelmas Algis Budrys 1977 American English
17117 The Ophiuchi Hotline John Varley 1977 American English
17117 The Walking Shadow Brian Stableford 1979 British English
17117 Juniper Time Kate Wilhelm 1979 American English
17117 The Dreaming Dragons Damien Broderick 1980 Australian English
17117 The Complete Roderick John Sladek 1982 American English
17117 Oath Of Fealty Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1981 American English
17117 Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao 2021 Canadian English
17117 L8r, G8r Lauren Myracle 2007 American English
17117 Super Cannes J. G. Ballard 2000 British English
17117 Dragonsdawn Anne McCaffrey 1988 American English
17117 All The Weyrs Of Pern Anne McCaffrey 1991 American English
17117 The Chronicles Of Pern Anne McCaffrey 1993 Irish English
17117 We Had To Remove This Post Hanna Bervoets 2021 Dutch Dutch
17117 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17117 Those Guys Have All The Fun James Andrew Miller 2011 American English
17117 Andymon Angela Steinmüller, Karlheinz Steinmüller 1982 German German
17117 Commander Perkins H. G. Francis 1978 German German
17117 Midworld Alan Dean Foster 1975 American English
17117 A Door Into Ocean Joan Slonczewski 1986 American English
17117 The Last Day Of Creation Wolfgang Jeschke 1981 German German
17117 Little Brother Cory Doctorow 2008 Canadian English
17117 Otherland Tad Williams 1996 American English
17117 We Were Out Of Our Minds With Joy David Marusek 1995 American English
17117 Ruby Finley Vs. The Interstellar Invasion K. Tempest Bradford 2023 American English
17117 Arabella Of Mars David D. Levine 2016 American English
17117 Shards Of Earth Adrian Tchaikovsky 2021 British English
17117 Children Of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky 2019 British English
17117 Europe In Winter Dave Hutchinson 2016 British English
17117 Ack Ack Macaque Gareth L. Powell 2012 British English
17117 Brasyl Ian McDonald 2007 British English
17117 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17117 Felaheen Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2003 British English
17117 The Sky Road Ken MacLeod 1999 Scottish English
17117 Aztec Century Christopher Evans 1993 British English
17117 Gráinne Keith Roberts 1973 British English
17117 The Ragged Astronauts Bob Shaw 1986 British English
17117 Tik Tok John Sladek 1983 American English
17117 Brontomek! Michael G. Coney 1976 British English
17117 The Moment Of Eclipse Brian Aldiss 1970 British English
17117 The Jagged Orbit John Brunner 1969 British English
17117 The Icarus Plot Timothy Zahn 2022 American English
17117 A Star Wheeled Sky Brad R. Torgersen 2018 American English
17117 Somewhither John C. Wright 2015 American English
17117 The Great Divergence Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 American English
17117 The Broker John Grisham 2005 American English
17117 The Shock Of The Old David Edgerton 2006 British English
17117 Brother Astronomer Guy Consolmagno 2000 American English
17117 Breaking The Chains Of Gravity Amy Shira Teitel 2015 American English
17117 How To Cool The Planet Jeff Goodell 2010 American English
17117 So, You Want To Be A Coder? Jane Bedell 2016 American English
17117 Black Inventors For Children Charles Jones 2002 American Unknown
17117 Mistakes That Worked Charlotte Jones 1991 Unknown English
17117 Consider The Following Bill Nye 1995 American English
17117 Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter 1997 British English
17117 Darwin Among The Machines George B. Dyson 1997 American English
17117 Critical Path R. Buckminster Fuller 1981 American English
17117 In The Vineyard Of The Text Ivan Illich 1993 American English
17117 Giving Up The Gun Noel Perrin 1979 American English
17117 Medieval In La Jim Paul 1996 American English
17117 Home Witold Rybczynski 1986 Canadian English
17117 River Of Shadows Rebecca Solnit 2003 American English
17117 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17117 Design John Heskett 2005 British English
17117 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17117 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17117 Los Angeles Reyner Banham 1971 British English
17117 Nature’s Metropolis William Cronon 1991 American English
17117 Deschooling Society Ivan Illich 1971 American English
17117 Rivers Of Empire Donald Worster 1985 American English
17117 An Unfinished History Of The World Hugh Thomas 1979 British English
17117 Trillion Year Spree Brian Aldiss 1986 British English
17117 Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama 2002 American English
17117 Our Final Century Martin Rees 2003 British English
17117 The Master Switch Tim Wu 2010 American English
17117 The Running Man Stephen King 1982 American English
17117 Symbols Of Modernity Abdul Amir Khadir Unknown Unknown
17117 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17117 Wild Robot Peter Brown 2016 American English
17117 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
17117 The Gone World Tom Sweterlitsch 2018 American English
17117 Zero Charles Seife 2000 American English
17117 At Home Bill Bryson 2010 American English
17117 Zero To One Peter Thiel 2014 American English
17117 Look To Windward Iain Banks 2000 British English
17117 How Music Got Free Stephen Richard Witt 2015 American English
17117 Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy 1986 American English
17117 The Bear And The Dragon Tom Clancy 2000 American English
17117 Debt Of Honor Tom Clancy 1994 American English
17117 Wool Omnibus Hugh Howey 2012 American English
17117 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17117 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
17117 The Lost World Michael Crichton 1995 American English
17117 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17117 Building A Second Brain Tiago Forte 2022 American English
17117 Life On Mars Tracy K. Smith 2011 American English
16870 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English