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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 39,635 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Start-up City: Ten Tales of Exceptional Entrepreneurship from Bangalore's Software Miracle
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2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
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Justin Peters (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 419 ratings
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To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
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4.35 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
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3.97 avg rating — 4,767 ratings
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Underground: Tales of hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier
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4.17 avg rating — 646 ratings
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Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
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3.98 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
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Paul Freiberger (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
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4.46 avg rating — 16,681 ratings
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
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Joseph Menn (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
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Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation
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Carol G. Maclennan (narrator)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 17,039 ratings
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Computing: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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3.55 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
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Chris Bernhardt (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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3.60 avg rating — 4,701 ratings
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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4.54 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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4.40 avg rating — 10,501 ratings
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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Blake J. Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 11,966 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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4.29 avg rating — 20,000 ratings
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Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry
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4.13 avg rating — 398 ratings
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UNIX: A History and a Memoir
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Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution
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3.94 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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4.28 avg rating — 15,750 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Katie Hafner (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,911 ratings
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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis
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3.89 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,836 ratings
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Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
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3.98 avg rating — 7,304 ratings
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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3.83 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 40,794 ratings
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,461 ratings
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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Jimmy Soni (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
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4.27 avg rating — 907 ratings
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