20 Best Tech Books to Gift (2024): Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés

It’s hard overestimate the influence of Big Tech on the modern world, but how did we get here? The best tech books uncover the rise and, sometimes, fall of some of the dominant companies and figures that created the gadgets and software we use for much of our lives.

You’ll find intensely detailed biographies, in-depth company histories, and plenty of drama and insights in these tech tomes, and they also make great gifts for the techies in your life. You might also be interested in our Gifts for Book Lovers, Best Cookbooks and Best Kindles guides.

Updated November 2025: We’ve added five new books, including The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, and No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram.