Bill Gates' Reading List

Bill Gates' annual reading recommendations.

  1. Culpability — Bruce Holsinger #1
  2. 1929 — Andrew Ross Sorkin #2
  3. Gray Matters — Theodore H. Schwartz #3
  4. Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt #4
  5. Who Knew — Barry Diller #5
  6. Abundance — Ezra Klein #6
  7. Clearing the Air — Hannah Ritchie #7
  8. Personal History — Katharine Graham #8
  9. Chasing Hope — Nicholas D. Kristof #9
  10. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... — Steven Pinker #10
  11. The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt #11
  12. The Women — Kristin Hannah #12
  13. Infectious Generosity — Chris Anderson #13
  14. How to Know a Person — David Brooks #14
  15. The Song of the Cell — Siddhartha Mukherjee #15
  16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin #16
  17. Born in Blackness — Howard W. French #17
  18. Not the End of the World — Hannah Ritchie #18
  19. Invention and Innovation — Vaclav Smil #19
  20. Team of Rivals — Doris Kearns Goodwin #20
  21. The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles #21
  22. Why We're Polarized — Ezra Klein #22
  23. The Power — Naomi Alderman #23
  24. Surrender — Bono #24
  25. The ministry for the future — Kim Stanley Robinson #25
  26. Mendeleyev's Dream — Paul Strathern #26
  27. Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro #27
  28. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir #28
  29. The Overstory — Richard Powers #29
  30. Under a White Sky — Elizabeth Kolbert #30
  31. Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell #31
  32. A Promised Land — Barack Obama #32
  33. Lights Out — Thomas Gryta #33
  34. An Elegant Defense — Matt Richtel #34
  35. The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander #35
  36. The Spy and the Traitor — Ben Macintyre #36
  37. The Great Influenza — John M. Barry #37
  38. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell #38
  39. The Splendid and the Vile — Erik Larson #39
  40. Breath from Salt — Bijal P. Trivedi #40
  41. A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles #41
  42. These Truths — Jill Lepore #42
  43. Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker #43
  44. An American Marriage — Tayari Jones #44
  45. Nine Pints — Rose George #45
  46. Prepared — Diane Tavenner #46
  47. The Future of Capitalism — Paul Collier #47
  48. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari #48
  49. Bad Blood — John Carreyrou #49
  50. Educated — Tara Westover #50
  51. Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved — Kate Bowler #51
  52. Factfulness — Hans Rosling #52
  53. Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson #53
  54. Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders #54
  55. Army of None — Paul Scharre #55
  56. Born a Crime — Trevor Noah #56
  57. Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari #57
  58. Believe Me — Eddie Izzard #58
  59. A Full Life — Jimmy Carter #59
  60. Hillbilly Elegy — J. D. Vance #60
  61. The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen #61
  62. The Best We Could Do — Thi Bui #62
  63. How Not to Be Wrong — Jordan Ellenberg #63
  64. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari #64
  65. The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee #65
  66. Seveneves — Neal Stephenson #66
  67. Shoe Dog — Phil Knight #67
  68. The Myth of the Strong Leader — Archie Brown #68
  69. String Theory — David Foster Wallace #69
  70. The Vital Question — Nick Lane #70
  71. How to Lie with Statistics — Darrell Huff #71
  72. Hyperbole and a Half — Allie Brosh #72
  73. On Immunity — Eula Biss #73
  74. The Magic of Reality — Richard Dawkins #74
  75. The Road to Character — David Brooks #75
  76. Being Nixon — Evan Thomas #76
  77. Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty #77
  78. The Rosie Effect — Graeme Simsion #78
  79. The Rosie Project — Graeme Simsion #79
  80. Stress Test — Timothy F. Geithner #80
  81. The Bully Pulpit — Doris Kearns Goodwin #81
  82. Business Adventures — John Brooks #82
  83. Reinventing American Health Care — Ezekiel J. Emanuel #83
  84. Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts — Vaclav Smil #84
  85. The Bet — Paul Sabin #85
  86. Made in the USA — Vaclav Smil #86
  87. Whistling Vivaldi — Claude Steele #87
  88. However Long the Night — Aimee Molloy #88
  89. Poor Numbers — Morten Jerven #89
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