Silicon Valley History
3. 
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating — 15,263 ratings 4. 
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by:
Kevin D. Mitnick
3.96 avg rating — 26,861 ratings 5. 
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,831 ratings 6. 
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
by:
Steve Wozniak
3.85 avg rating — 17,359 ratings 7. 
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by:
Steven Levy
3.84 avg rating — 29,915 ratings 8. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,121 ratings 9. 
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by:
Ed Catmull
4.21 avg rating — 100,164 ratings 10. 
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by:
David Kushner
4.29 avg rating — 19,678 ratings 11. 
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by:
Katie Hafner
3.94 avg rating — 4,851 ratings 12. 
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by:
Linus Torvalds
3.96 avg rating — 4,711 ratings 13. 
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time
by:
David A. Vise
3.88 avg rating — 16,182 ratings 14. 
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
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iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
by:
Jeffrey S. Young
4.06 avg rating — 10,622 ratings 16. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,358 ratings 17. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 18. 
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by:
Paul Graham
4.05 avg rating — 9,489 ratings 
20. 
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World 3.86 avg rating — 11,873 ratings
21. 
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by:
John Markoff
3.82 avg rating — 1,141 ratings 
23. 
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
28. 
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 29. 
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
by:
Paul Freiberger
4.16 avg rating — 1,327 ratings 30. 
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by:
Kevin Poulsen
3.97 avg rating — 8,012 ratings 
32. 
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by:
Lawrence Lessig
3.98 avg rating — 1,386 ratings 33. 
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by:
Charles Petzold
4.40 avg rating — 10,330 ratings 
35. 
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by:
Bruce Sterling
3.80 avg rating — 3,323 ratings 
37. 
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
by:
David Kahn
4.18 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
by:
P.W. Singer
3.97 avg rating — 2,592 ratings 42. 
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
by:
Steven Levy
3.98 avg rating — 1,272 ratings 43. 
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by:
Brent Schlender
4.14 avg rating — 16,886 ratings 44. 
Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
by:
Janet Lowe
3.59 avg rating — 311 ratings 45. 
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
by:
Laszlo Bock
4.13 avg rating — 16,175 ratings 
47. 
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft 4.14 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
49. 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,421 ratings
50. 
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
by:
Jason Fried
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,710 ratings 
51. 
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
by:
Sarah Lacy
3.83 avg rating — 581 ratings 
55. 
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by:
Charlene Li
3.75 avg rating — 5,562 ratings 56. 
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by:
Brad Stone
4.14 avg rating — 76,315 ratings 57. 
Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
by:
Fred Vogelstein
3.76 avg rating — 2,301 ratings 57. 
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company 4.21 avg rating — 813 ratings
59. 
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
by:
James Wallace
4.12 avg rating — 1,969 ratings 60. 
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.59 avg rating — 16,994 ratings 
63. 
The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World
by:
Wagner James Au
3.31 avg rating — 97 ratings 64. 
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by:
Glenn Greenwald
4.07 avg rating — 14,930 ratings 
66. 
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by:
Tim Berners-Lee
3.91 avg rating — 863 ratings 67. 
Social State: Thoughts, Stats and Stories about the State of Social Media in 2013 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings
68. 
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by:
Douglas Edwards
3.85 avg rating — 5,431 ratings 
71. 
The Garden of the World (Western Literature and Fiction Series)
by:
Lawrence Coates
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings 72. 
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
by:
Sheera Frenkel
3.97 avg rating — 6,914 ratings 73. 
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by:
Yochai Benkler
3.96 avg rating — 1,695 ratings 74. 
Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
by:
Clifford Stoll
3.35 avg rating — 438 ratings 
76. 
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley 3.71 avg rating — 13,519 ratings
78. 
Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company
by:
Tim Jackson
4.08 avg rating — 335 ratings 
80. 
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
by:
Andy Hertzfeld
4.22 avg rating — 2,405 ratings 
81. 
Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company 4.02 avg rating — 301 ratings
83. 
The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage And The Quest To Build The First Computer
by:
Doron Swade
3.76 avg rating — 304 ratings 
86. 
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by:
Emily Chang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,875 ratings 87. 
Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know 3.71 avg rating — 946 ratings
88. 
Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry
by:
Michael Dell
3.84 avg rating — 1,803 ratings 88. 
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.84 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 
91. 
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by:
Kim Zetter
4.17 avg rating — 8,046 ratings 91. 
93. 
The Silicon Valley Way: Discover 45 Secrets for Successful Start-Ups 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings
94. 
Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
by:
Joseph Menn
3.69 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 
95. 
The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
by:
Jodie Archer
3.81 avg rating — 1,243 ratings 
95. 
17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
by:
Pooja Agnihotri
4.46 avg rating — 78 ratings 
