To my surprise I own 15 books on this list (physical copies). But some are more computer history related (Levy, Kidder, Kushner): and even though those books ar

To my surprise I own 15 books on this list (physical copies). But some are more computer history related (Levy, Kidder, Kushner): and even though those books are some of my alltime favorites I don't know how a retelling (i.e. biography) can be an 'influential' book, since it's usually written after the fact?