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What a joy to read these entries. The favorite computing history books in my library are listed below. Most of these were already mentioned in this thread I think. My all time favorites are tagged by ().

Accidental Empires - Robert X. Cringely (1992)

* Dealers of Lightning - Michael A. Hiltzik (1999)

* Programmers at Work - Susan Lammers (1986)

* The Innovators - Walter Isaacson (2014)

* The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder (1981)

Barbarians Led by Bill Gates - Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller (1998)

Big Blue - Richard Thomas DeLamarter (1988)

Console Wars - Blake Harris (2014)

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog - Martin Campbell-Kelly (2004)

Game Over - David Sheff (1999)

Hackers - Steven Levy (1984)

I Sing the Body Electronic - Fred Moody (1995)

iCon Steve Jobs - Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon (2005)

Kraken en computers - Jan Jacobs (1985)

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland (1995)

Microsoft Secrets - Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby (1995)

Revolution in the Valley - Andy Hertzfeld (2005)

Startup - Jerry Kaplan (1994)

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson (2011)

The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrup (2018)

The Electronic Cottage - Joseph Deken (1981)

The Sinclair Story - Rodney Dale (1985)

Turing's Cathedral - George Dyson (2012)

Van rekenmachine tot taalautomaat - Leoneer van der Beek (2010)

Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon (1996)