25 Best Tech Books to Gift (2025): Biographies, Startup Histories, Expos

it is hard To raise the impact of big technology on the modern world, but how did we get here? The best technology books reveal the rise and sometimes fall of some of the dominant companies and personalities that created the tools and software.

You’ll find detailed biographies, in-depth company history, and plenty of drama and insight in these tech collections, and they also make great gifts for the techies in your life. You may also be interested in our gifts for book lovers, the best cookbooks and our guide to the best Kindle.

November 2025 Update: We’ve added five new books, including The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Beloved Chip, Excellence: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World, and No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram.