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The 35 Best Books for Geeks & Nerds

"What are the best Geek and Nerd books?" We looked at 15 articles and 212 different books in an attempt to answer that very question. Below you will find our results of the 35 best books for geeks and nerds of all-time." Feel free to geek out with this list :)
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Code Complete (Steve McConnell)
Code Complete
1
Steve McConnell
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Cryptonomicon
2
Neal Stephenson
Does IT Matter?
Does IT Matter?
3
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
4
Mary Shelley
Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter Series
5
J.K. Rowling
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (Nick Bilton)
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
6
Nick Bilton
His Dark Materials Trilogy
His Dark Materials Trilogy
7
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
8
Italo Calvino
Microserfs
Microserfs
9
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloane)
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
10
Robin Sloane
Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
Ready Player One
11
Ernest Cline
Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (G.Pascal Zachary)
Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
12
G.Pascal Zachary
The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)
The Cuckoo's Egg
13
Cliff Stoll
Thr Google Story (David A. Vise and Mark Malseed)
Thr Google Story
14
David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) (Frederick P. Brooks Jr.)
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
15
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (Steven Levy)
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
16
Steven Levy
The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
The Soul of a New Machine
17
Tracy Kidder
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
18
H.G. Wells
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
19
Edward Tufte
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
Watchmen
20
Alan Moore
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams)
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
21
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
22
Aldous Huxley
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game
23
Orson Scott Card
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
24
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Iwoz (Steve Wozniak)
Iwoz
25
Steve Wozniak
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
26
Robert A. Heinlein
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
27
George Orwell
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
28
Stephen Hawking
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
29
Philip K. Dick
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
30
Frank Herbert
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
31
J.R.R. Tolkien
I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
I, Robot
32
Isaac Asimov
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
Snow Crash
33
Neal Stephenson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
34
Douglas Adams
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
35
William Gibson
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