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Best Books on Computing
1.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
by:
Steven Levy
4.16 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
2.
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by:
David Kushner
4.29 avg rating — 19,678 ratings
3.
Introduction to System Design
by:
Shivam Singh
4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
4.
The Soul of a New Machine
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.12 avg rating — 9,240 ratings
5.
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by:
Linus Torvalds
3.96 avg rating — 4,711 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
7.
The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
by:
T. Gilling
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
8.
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
by:
Steven L. Kent
4.14 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
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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
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by:
Kevin D. Mitnick
3.96 avg rating — 26,863 ratings
11.
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
by:
Robert X. Cringely
4.03 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by:
Linus Torvalds
3.96 avg rating — 4,711 ratings
13.
Digicrimination – Those are the Good Times: A New Type of Discrimination That Came with Digitization
by:
H.Okan Tansu
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
14.
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
by:
David A. Price
3.95 avg rating — 9,282 ratings
15.
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
by:
Paul Freiberger
4.16 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
16.
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by:
Kevin Poulsen
3.97 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
17.
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
by:
Finn Brunton
3.93 avg rating — 127 ratings
18.
Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
by:
Gordon Corera
3.97 avg rating — 669 ratings
19.
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
20.
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
by:
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings
21.
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
22.
Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
by:
Samantha Parent Walravens
3.60 avg rating — 379 ratings
23.
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
by:
Charlton D. McIlwain
3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings
24.
The Wit and Wisdom of Steve Jobs
by:
Gennaro Salamone
3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings
24.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
by:
Eric S. Raymond
4.13 avg rating — 256 ratings
24.
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
by:
Danah Boyd
3.79 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
24.
The Night Shift
by:
Alan Morton
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
24.
Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line
by:
Toby Velte
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
24.
The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
by:
Ajay Reddy
3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings
24.
OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
by:
Rakesh Singh
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
24.
The Inner History of Devices
by:
Sherry Turkle
3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings
24.
The Florentine Deception
by:
Carey Nachenberg
3.77 avg rating — 352 ratings
24.
Silicon Planet: My Life in Computer Chips
by:
Pat Hays
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
by:
James Barrat
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Green It for Sustainable Business Practice: An Iseb Foundation Guide
by:
Mark O'Neill
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
35.
Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website
by:
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
3.31 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
37.
Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution
by:
Steven Sinofsky
4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings
38.
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by:
George Zarkadakis
3.86 avg rating — 277 ratings
38.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by:
Scott Rosenberg
3.71 avg rating — 3,093 ratings
40.
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings
40.
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by:
Fred Kaplan
3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
40.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by:
Charles Petzold
4.40 avg rating — 10,330 ratings
43.
The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge
by:
James Burke
3.90 avg rating — 241 ratings
43.
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by:
Annie Jacobsen
3.99 avg rating — 4,723 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
by:
Erez Aiden
3.72 avg rating — 672 ratings
46.
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
by:
Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings
47.
Future Crimes
by:
Marc Goodman
3.93 avg rating — 4,365 ratings
48.
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by:
Richard A. Clarke
4.03 avg rating — 790 ratings
49.
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
by:
Eric O'Neill
4.07 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
50.
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
51.
The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
by:
Mary Aiken
3.74 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
52.
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
by:
Richard A. Clarke
3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
53.
#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity
by:
Joe Yeager
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
54.
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
55.
Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
by:
Sean M. Bailey
4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
56.
The Art of Cyber Conflict
by:
Henry J. Sienkiewicz
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children
by:
Holli Kenley
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
58.
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by:
Sherry Turkle
3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
by:
Andrew Marantz
4.20 avg rating — 3,049 ratings
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us
by:
Rana Foroohar
3.85 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
61.
The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth
by:
Samuel Woolley
3.49 avg rating — 184 ratings
62.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by:
James Bridle
4.04 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
63.
Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
by:
Lucie Greene
3.56 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
by:
Ellen Ullman
3.97 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
65.
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by:
Franklin Foer
3.62 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
66.
The Eyes on Growing Needs:
by:
Love Otuechere
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
67.
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by:
Adam Alter
3.85 avg rating — 12,528 ratings
68.
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
by:
Greg Milner
3.73 avg rating — 629 ratings
69.
Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life
by:
David Pogue
3.89 avg rating — 757 ratings
70.
iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives
by:
Craig Detweiler
3.69 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain
by:
Jeff Stibel
3.80 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for a Media-Fueled World
by:
Jim Taylor
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
73.
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by:
Brian McCullough
4.27 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
74.
Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century
by:
Fergus Hanson
4.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
75.
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by:
Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
76.
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
by:
Michael Patrick Lynch
3.51 avg rating — 532 ratings
77.
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
by:
Virginia Heffernan
3.48 avg rating — 588 ratings
78.
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by:
Tim Berners-Lee
3.91 avg rating — 863 ratings
79.
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
by:
Laura Lemay
3.49 avg rating — 74 ratings
80.
How To Make Webcomics
by:
Brad Guigar
4.03 avg rating — 484 ratings
81.
Facebook: The Inside Story
by:
Steven Levy
4.06 avg rating — 2,889 ratings
82.
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
by:
Blake J. Harris
4.05 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
83.
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by:
Brian Merchant
3.89 avg rating — 1,912 ratings