Essential Computer History and Information Revolution Books
6. 
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by:
Katie Hafner
3.94 avg rating — 4,853 ratings 
12. 
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date 4.03 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
14. 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,422 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating — 15,267 ratings 17. 
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
by:
Eric S. Raymond
3.83 avg rating — 4,271 ratings 
19. 
Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
by:
Clifford Stoll
3.35 avg rating — 438 ratings 20. 
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by:
James Wallace
4.12 avg rating — 1,970 ratings 
23. 
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
by:
Norbert Wiener
4.02 avg rating — 885 ratings 
24. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 
27. 
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms 4.38 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
29. 
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft 4.14 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
33. 
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by:
Kevin D. Mitnick
3.96 avg rating — 26,863 ratings 34. 
Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America
by:
Stephen Manes
4.06 avg rating — 552 ratings 35. 
Cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and ecology: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symosium of the American Society for Cybernetics liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
35. 
Norbert Wiener: Collected Works, Vol. 4: Cybernetics, Science, and Society; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Literary Criticism; Book Reviews and Obituaries
by:
Norbert Wiener
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 35.
40. 
The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss
by:
Fiona Gatt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
by:
David Gelernter
3.82 avg rating — 111 ratings 48. 
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Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, the Difference Engine, Charles Babbage Institute, Babbage, Babbage, Dynamometer Car
by:
Books LLC
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
54. 
The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage And The Quest To Build The First Computer
by:
Doron Swade
3.76 avg rating — 304 ratings 54. 
The Top Ten System Tools for Android (2nd Edition) (Top Ten Android Tips) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
54. 
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
by:
Eli Pariser
3.79 avg rating — 5,467 ratings 58. 
The End of Big: How the Digital Revolution Makes David the New Goliath
by:
Nicco Mele
3.73 avg rating — 260 ratings 60. 
The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #1-3)
by:
Isaac Asimov
4.42 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 60. 
A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet
by:
John Naughton
3.81 avg rating — 239 ratings 62. 
Tablets: Understanding Software and Apps
by:
Hugo Ortega
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 62. 
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by:
Jerry Kaplan
3.68 avg rating — 1,234 ratings 
66. 
The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
by:
Po Bronson
3.64 avg rating — 800 ratings 66. 
Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks
by:
Guy Claxton
3.82 avg rating — 116 ratings 
69. 
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by:
Brian Dear
4.14 avg rating — 344 ratings 
73. 
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer
by:
Ada Lovelace
3.38 avg rating — 129 ratings 
73. 
The Fifth Wave: A Strategic Vision for Mobile Internet Innovation, Investment and Return
by:
Robert Marcus
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings 
73. 
Knowledge: Everything You Really Need to Know about the Internet
by:
John Naughton
3.76 avg rating — 282 ratings 73. 
The Medical Librarian's Guide to Natural Mental Health
by:
William Jiang
4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings 
73. 
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age 4.16 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
73. 
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by:
Clive Thompson
3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings 73. 
A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning
by:
Stephan Paternot
3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings 73. 
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by:
Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating — 4,775 ratings 73. 
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Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by:
James Essinger
3.27 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 73. 
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by:
Brian McCullough
4.27 avg rating — 2,058 ratings 73. 
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by:
Parmy Olson
4.08 avg rating — 2,653 ratings 
94. 
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by:
Steven Levy
3.84 avg rating — 29,917 ratings 94. 
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by:
Andy Greenberg
4.35 avg rating — 9,509 ratings 
99. 
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by:
Phil Lapsley
4.20 avg rating — 1,748 ratings 100. 
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
by:
Steven Levy
3.98 avg rating — 1,272 ratings