To see my list from last year visit – My Tech Books 2025
My selections below, both fiction and non fiction, I have found to be enjoyable and thought provoking in many different ways and I recommend them to everyone who is interested in tech.
Mentions from 2025
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
– Tae Kim
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
– Patrick McGee
Source Code: My beginnings – Bill Gates
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1. Daemon – Daniel Suarez [Fiction]
A glimpse into the future of where drones and augmented reality may take us. That may not necessarily be a good place either. The more AI I see the more this books seems to be a prediction of what is coming. Many concepts in this book are I would suggest are now even more likely to be reality.
2. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology [Non-Fiction]
Without computer chips our modern world would not exist. Read this to understand how truly dependent we are on the humble microprocessor and how it may become something wars are about shortly.
3. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever [Non-Fiction]
Unbelievable but true story of how criminals were tricked to adopting technology from law enforcement agencies and the impacts that had on organised crime when it was finally revealed..
4. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers – Andy Greenberg [Non-Fiction]
This is a great book if you are interested in IT security. It is also a very current book which makes it even more engrossing. It is easy to read and quite comprehensive in its approach, not only dealing with the technology of security attack but also the geopolitical reasons and consequences.
It reveals that shadow world of nation state cyber attacks and illustrates how they are happening today and likely to increase in the future. The connected world of the Internet has brought us many benefits but it is now increasing risks as our dependencies increase to the point that there are few manual backups that don’t depend on technology.
I think this book is a real glimpse into the future and what we may be in store for in the even of rising global conflicts. If you like tech, you’ll love this!
5. Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for our Connected World – Marc Goodman [Non-fiction]
Technology will ultimately doom us all I believe because we are building our world on stuff that unfortunately places a low regard for security and privacy. This book will show you why that is a road to ruination.
6. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon – Kim Zetter [Non-Fiction]
If you don’t believe cyber warfare is real then read this book to understand how software is now a weapon as potentially devastating as any nuclear device.
7. AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence – A Definitive Insider Chronicle of the Breakthroughs Redefining Our World [Non-Fiction]
The world is changing faster than it ever has before and with so much money being throw at AI who knows where it will end.
8. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt or the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road – Nick Bilton [Non-Fiction]
An amazingly detailed book on the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road web site. In here are asked to think about whether technology plays something more than a neutral role in today’s world.
9. The Coming Wave. Technology, Power and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma – Mustafa Suleyman [Non-Fiction]
A well balanced book on both the pros and cons of artificial intelligence (AI). The future is not going to be all roses unless we stop and think about what we are creating with Ai and what we need to do now to prevent it causing untold harm.
10. This how they tell me the world ends: The cyberweapons arms race – Nicole Perlroth [Non-Fiction]
Highlights the challenges that society has created, mainly from its’ own doing and questions of how we go about fixing this so we don’t end causing infinite harm to both intended targets and unintended victims.
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