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The technology books most often recommended by founders, engineers, and operators in our index. Covers the histories of the big technology shifts and the books that shaped their architects.
60 books, ranked by how many of the 4,800 notable readers in our index have publicly recommended each one.
- 14 people
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Steve Krug · 2013
14 recommenders
- 13 people
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom · 2014
13 recommenders
- 13 people
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell · 2019
13 recommenders
- 11 people
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis · 2012
11 recommenders
- 10 people
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 1995
10 recommenders
- 10 people
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
10 recommenders
- 8 people
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham · 2004
8 recommenders
- 7 people
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Ian Goodfellow · 2016
7 recommenders
- 6 people
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Janelle Shane · 2019
6 recommenders
- 6 people
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy · 2001
6 recommenders
- 6 people
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Alan Cooper · 2004
6 recommenders
- 6 people
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson · 1996
6 recommenders
- 5 people
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier · 2018
5 recommenders
- 5 people
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library, 33)
Richard P. Feynman · 1988
5 recommenders
- 5 people
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt & David Thomas · 1999
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand · 2009
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard W. Hamming · 1997
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda · 2018
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hannah Fry · 2019
5 recommenders
- 4 people
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Ray Kurzweil · 2024
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Principles of Optics: 60th Anniversary Edition
Max Born · 2019
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Christopher Bail · 2021
4 recommenders
- 3 people
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold · 2000
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte · 1998
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
Daniel P. Friedman · 1995
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Quantum Computing since Democritus
Scott Aaronson · 2013
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
Thomas M. Cover · 2006
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1
Donald E. Knuth · 1997
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Steve Krug · 2009
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
Steve McConnell · 2004
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
James Barrat · 2013
3 recommenders
- 2 people
Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry
Michael Dell · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Don Tapscott · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Practice in Python (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics Series)
Laura Graesser · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Michael Hartl · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Eric Evans · 2003
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Martin Henz · 2022
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger · 1993
2 recommenders
- 2 people
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Edgar H. Schein · 2004
2 recommenders
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Methodology: each book is ranked by the number of recommenders in our index who have publicly endorsed it. Curated topics use a hand-picked book list; year-stamped pages query our index by publication year. More on methodology →