Best Books on Science & Tech

The ideas, machines and minds that changed everything. The top-rated non-fiction to read alongside the science & tech documentaries.

1. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
6. Quantum by Manjit Kumar - View on Amazon
7. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
8. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - View on Amazon
9. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John R. Gribbin (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
10. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (4/5) - View on Amazon
11. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
12. Relativity by Albert Einstein - View on Amazon
13. E=mc2 by David Bodanis - View on Amazon
14. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh (4/5) - View on Amazon
15. The Code Book by Simon Singh (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
16. How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg (4/5) - View on Amazon
17. Humble Pi by Matt Parker (4/5) - View on Amazon
18. The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
19. Napoleon's Buttons by Penny LeCouteur - View on Amazon
20. The Elements by Theodore Gray - View on Amazon
21. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
22. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
23. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (4/5) - View on Amazon
24. Human Compatible by Stuart J. Russell (3.7/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on Physics & Maths

1. Quantum by Manjit Kumar - View on Amazon
2. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
3. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - View on Amazon
4. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John R. Gribbin (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (4/5) - View on Amazon
6. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
7. Relativity by Albert Einstein - View on Amazon
8. E=mc2 by David Bodanis - View on Amazon

Best Books on AI, Robots & the Future

1. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (4/5) - View on Amazon
3. Human Compatible by Stuart J. Russell (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian - View on Amazon
5. Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
6. Robot by Hans Moravec - View on Amazon
7. The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
8. Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (4/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on Life Sciences

1. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
4. She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer - View on Amazon
5. On the origin of species by means of natural selection by Charles Darwin (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
6. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
7. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
8. Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne (4.3/5) - View on Amazon

Best Books on Inventors & Big Ideas

1. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Tesla by W. Bernard Carlson - View on Amazon
3. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - View on Amazon
4. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. My inventions by Nikola Tesla (4.2/5) - View on Amazon