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Steve Jobs: Genius by Design

By Jason Quinn

Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

By Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

By James Ashton

Future Crimes: A Journey To The Dark Side of Technology - and How To Survive It

By Marc Goodman

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

By Ben Mezrich

Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition: Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of 2022

By Lulu Yilun Chen

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson

By Kari Cornell

Great Scientific Experiments

By Rom Harré

Minecraft, Second Edition: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game That Changed Everything

By Daniel Goldberg, Linus Larsson, Jennifer Hawkins

Inside Steve's Brain: Business Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Man Who Saved Apple

By Leander Kahney

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz

By Domenica Di Piazza

Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper

By Andrea Pelleschi

Space Engineer and Scientist Margaret Hamilton

By Domenica Di Piazza

Ada Lovelace: The Fantastically Feminist (and Totally True) Story of the Mathematician Extraordinaire

By Anna Doherty

Traces Of Guilt

By Neil Barrett

The Scrapbook of My Life

By Alfie Deyes

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

By Ellen Ullman

The Mastermind: The hunt for the World's most prolific criminal

By Evan Ratliff

YouTube: Steve Chen

By Lisa Albers

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

By Tom Bissell

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Nikolai Gogol

By Vladimir Nabokov