Books are a big source of inspiration, it helps you travel the world and provide the knowledge that you needed, in a beautiful and subtle way. A person can find worldly knowledge and information in books. Not only that, it can create a deep impact on our minds and provide us with enough motivation to live our lives freely.
There are a huge number of successful people who recommend books because the books lead them to self-improvement and are their cause of euphoria. They can be entertaining, motivational and an eye-opener; sometimes it also helps you in realizing your own dream.
One of the most successful people in the world, the founder of Microsoft, William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates is a huge bibliophile. It is said that he reads at least 50 books every year and that is something enormous. Even in his busy schedule, he always finds a way to read books, and the best part he in his own dedicated blog called GatesNotes shares about the book he is reading and recommends the best ones. So, are you not curious to know, what the founder of one of the biggest technology companies read?
In this article, we will disclose all the books that Bill Gates has recommended over the span of 7 years. This list is comprised of science, technology, business, fiction, non-fiction, history, biography, and others So, let’s get started.
Bill Gates’s love for books knows no bounds, every year in the summer and winter he recommends some of his favourite books that he has read in his blog. Some of the popular books from the last seven years are listed below. So, Let’s look at the Books Recommended by Bill Gates.
“Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”
-Bill Gates
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1. The Magic Of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
Author: Richard Dawkins
Originally published: 15 September 2011
This 2011 book written by Richard Dawkins made its place on the list of Gates’s recommended books in 2015. The book is a favourite amongst children and young adults as it is written for them. It deals with re-telling the myths that are famous all over the world.
The origins of particular phenomena are also penned here. It is filled with interesting facts about the world that one should know about. This is a good book on science and answers the questions that one can have about the universe.
2. Hyberbole And A Half
Author: Allie Brosh
Originally published: 29 October 2013
The 2013 book written by Allie Brosh is all about the stories of her daily life full of hysterical stories that are extremely funny. Hyperbole And A Half is a blog and a webcomic. Then it has now become a book, where all the stories including the author’s childhood experience are also contained in this book.
3. What If?
Author: Randall Munroe
Originally published: 2 September 2014
This book by Munroe is non-fiction in which the author answers all the hypothetical science-related questions that are sent by the people who read his comic site ‘xkcd’. He compiles all the answers to the questions that he has answered in his webcomic and has published them in this book.
4. On Immunity
Author: Eula Biss
Originally published: 30 September 2014
This 2014 non-fiction book reasons why vaccination is so important for children. All the myths about the conception of immunity. It breaks all those misconceptions that people have about vaccination and are against it. This book showcased how vaccination is important for children as we cannot protect them on our own.
5. How To Lie With Statistics
Author: Darrel Huff
Originally published: 1954
This book by Darrel Huff can be considered as an introduction of statistics to readers. It elaborates on the misuse of statistics that can happen through errors while interpreting statistics that can lead to the wrong conclusions.
6. Should We Eat Meat?
Author: Vaclav Smil
Originally published: 2013
This 2013 book talks about how eating meat has played a role in the evolution of humans and how its influence is increasing in recent days. The book also details the production of meats in modern days. This book answers if we can produce meat for people without harming the planet. This book is very informative and does not just answer if we should eat meat or not.
7. The Road To Character
Author: David Brooks
Originally published: 14 April 2015
In the month of December 2015, Bill Gates included The Road To Character written by the columnist of The New York Times, David Brooks. This book has blended psychology, politics, and spirituality together and talks about the deeper values that we should have in our life.
It shows how some of the world’s greatest thinkers are able to create a strong and rich inner character. It is considered one of the best books for self-improvement and is named one of the best books of the year 2015 by The Economist.
8. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words
Author: Randall Munroe
Originally published: 24 November 2015
The book is quite interesting and fascinating because the author just used 1000 English words that are very much common to explain the complicated things of various complex 54 subjects. The subject includes pencils, atom bombs, and aeroplane engines. The book also has some jokes to entertain the readers.
9. Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Author: Evan Thomas
Originally published: 16 June 2015
This book is a New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon. This book follows the growth of Nixon and his psychological profile, his childhood influences, and most importantly his career in politics. An insightful look into his political journey and how some of his decisions and weaknesses prove to be the villain and destroyed his presidency.
10. Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open
Author: Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M, Cullen, and Mark A. Carruth
Originally published: 2012
This 2012 book talks about how we should save energy for the future. It is a follow-up to the book Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air and talks about how one should concentrate on making materials in such a way that they can be sustainable and will be available for future generations.
11. Eradication: Ridding The World Of Diseases Forever?
Author: Nancy Leys Stepan
Originally published: 2011
This book by award-winning historian Nancy Stepan talks about the advantages and disadvantages of helping the world to get rid of some diseases one by one. The different approaches that have been tried to erase the diseases and the time that it failed to reach a conclusion that proved a success. Gates said that the book is written in an academic style.
12. Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success
Author: Carol S. Dweck
Originally published: 28 February 2006
This book showcases how our mindset can change our entire life. We can achieve success in almost every area, be it school, work, or sports, if we have the right mindset, nothing is impossible. A fixed mindset will help you in the growth of your life. This book is truly very inspirational and helps you in getting motivation.
Alan Joseph
Books Recommended by Bill gates in 2016
13. Sapiens: A Brief History Of Human Kind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Originally published: 2011
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens made a place in the list of Bill Gates’s summer book recommendations in the year 2016. This book answers the question, what makes us sapiens? This 2011 book talks about the history and the future of human beings on the planet and busts some ancient myths that are part of human society for a long time. This Non-fiction was even a part of Gates’s spring vacation.
14. Seveneves
Author: Neal Stephenson
Originally published: 19 May 2015
This book is a science fiction novel and tells the story of all the efforts made to save human beings when the Earth faces an apocalypse after the moon got destroyed. All the nations across the world joined their hand to ensure the survival of the humans in outer space at the time of the apocalypse.
15. How Not To Be Wrong
Author: Jordan Ellenberg
Originally published: 29 May 2014
Another New York Times Best Selling book that made its place on Gates’s list. This 2014 book showcases how different economics and philosophies of society are connected with mathematics and statistical principles. Basically how mathematics is connected with our everyday.
16. The Vital Question
Author: Nick Lane
Originally published: 2015
This book by Nick Lane talks about the origin of life and its evolution. The vital question tries to answer the complexity between the biology of life and energy. The book mainly focuses on answering why are we here and why are we like this?
17. The Power To Compete
Author: Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
Originally published: 20 October 2014
As Gates said in his blog, if someone wants to know more about Japan, it is a must-read for them. This book gives the viewpoint of all the issues that are faced by Japan and they are not recognized despite being the fourth-largest economy in the world. The authors talk about how the problem can be solved to make the country’s future more bright.
18. String Theory
Author: David Foster Wallace
Originally published: 10 May 2016
This book by David Foster Wallace may sound like something that deals with Physics but in reality, this book talks about Wallace’s favourite sport, Tennis. In the year 2016, this was one of the many books on the list of Gate’s winter collection. It contains everything about tennis, a competitor’s insight, a fan’s enthusiasm, and many other things. A must-read for a sports enthusiast.
19. Shoe Dog
Author: Phil Knight
Originally published: 26 April 2016
Almost everyone is familiar with the sportswear brand Nike, this book is written by its co-founder Phil Knight and talks about the history of Nike and the challenges that the company faces, and how it has become one of the most profitable and recognizable companies in the whole world.
20. The Gene
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Originally published: 17 May 2016
This 2016 book is all about genes and genetic researches. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician and oncologist who focuses on the power of genes that is related to the traits of human beings in this book.
21. The Myth Of The Strong Leader
Author: Archie Brown
Originally published: 2014
This book by Archie Brown explains that a strong leader will not always be a successful leader. This book features Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tony Blair and discusses the types and qualities of their leadership.
22. The Grid
Author: Gretchen Bakke
Originally published: 26 July 2016
The book talks about how the electrical grid in America that are made in the 20th century is now becoming a nuisance in the present time as they do not fit in modern times. It also talks about the various challenges faced by the grid in recent times.
Books Recommended by Bill gates in 2017
23. Born A Crime
Author: Trevor Noah
Originally published: 15 November 2016
This book by Trevor Noah was published in the year 2016 and Bill Gates put it in his 2017 book list. Trevor Noah is an award-winning comedian from South Africa. It has the detailed story of Noah’s life and how he was termed illegal for being born of a mixed race. The struggles and the prejudices he faced while growing up is all detailed here.
24. The Heart
Author: Maylis de Kerangal
Originally published: 2013
It is a medical fiction novel that surrounds the death of a 19-year-old, Simon Limbres who died in a car accident. The story then focuses on how the transplantation of Simon’s heart affects his parents, the doctors, the recipient, and their families in the span of 24 hours.
25. Hillbilly Elegy
Author: J.D. Vance
Originally published: 28 June 2016
The book deals with the themes of class and social mobility, economic inequality, and family. It talks about his ethnic Appalachian values, their social problems. It is also a New York Times Bestseller book that deals with health and economic problems as well.
26. Homo Deus
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Originally published: 2015
The book is all about the future of humans. It also states that in the 21st-century humans will make an attempt in gaining God-like powers and immortality and states that with technological powers developing Human may not be the dominant species in front of highly intelligent algorithms.
27. A Full Life
Author: Jimmy Carter
Originally published: 7 July 2015
This 2015 book is an autobiography of the author Jimmy Carter who was the former American President. It is after his 90th birthday how has lived a pretty interesting life.
28. Energy And Civilization: A History
Author: Professor of Geography Vaclav Smil
Originally published: 2017
This book by Professor Vaclav Smil details how energy makes life possible and is a prime factor to make society works. The book talks about fossil fuel-driven civilization that is extremely dependent on energy and how humans are the only beings that can create energies outside their bodies through different technologies.
29. The Best We Could Do
Author: Thi Bui
Originally published: 7 March 2017
The book follows the journey of the author, Thi Bui’s parents. Their life before the Vietnam War and the situation during the war and how they escape from Vietnam and become a refugee in the United State of America. The theme also includes the trauma that one suffers after the war.
30. Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City
Author: Mathew Desmond
Originally published: 1 March 2016
The book follows the journey of eight families during the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and how they were struggling to pay their rent. The issues that are highlighted in this book are economic problems, extreme poverty and affordable housing.
31. Believe Me
Author: Eddie Izzard
Originally published: 13 June 2017
It is a New York Times Bestseller book that is an autobiography of Izzard himself and talks about how the death of his mother affected him in his childhood and shaped his future. It also talks about his life in comedy, film, politics, and philanthropy.
32. The Sympathizer
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Originally published: 2 April 2015
This 2015 best-selling novel received the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for Fiction. The story deals with love, friendship, and betrayal and is about a communist double agent and classic war fiction where the protagonist’s political belief is standing against his loyalties.
Books Recommended by Bill gates in 2018
33. Leonardo da Vinci
Author: Walter Isaacson
Originally published: 17 October 2017
This 2017 book by Walter Isaacson made it on Gates’s list in the year 2018. This book detailed how one of the greatest painter’s skills can also be improved in us. Observation, curiosity, and imagination can be developed and nurtured in ourselves. The book also stated how the great painter was an immense believer in science and technology. Bill Gates considered Leonardo one of the most fascinating people ever in his blog.
34. Everything Happened For A Reason And Other Lies I’ve Loved
Author: Kate Bowler
Originally published: 6 February 2018
This 2018 book is an autobiography that focuses on the life of the author herself. Kate Bowler is a 35-year-old professor, after giving birth to her baby, she started experiencing stomach pain and was diagnosed with colon cancer. This book talks about her life history and all the struggles she has gone through.
35. Lincoln In The Bardo
Author: George Saunders
Originally published: 14 February 2017
This book is an experimental novel by George Saunders that deals with how Abraham Lincoln deals with his grief after the death of his son, William Wallace Lincoln. It is a very critically acclaimed book that has been ranked as one of the best novels of the decade by many publications.
36. Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything
Author: David Christian
Originally published: 14 May 2018
This 2018 book talks about the creation of the Universe and how it is now a complex planet where over 7 billion humans exist. It talks about the big bang, the creation of living and non-living beings, and everything that has led to recent times.
37. Factfulness
Author: Hans Rosling
Originally published: 3 April 2019
The book was published after the death of Hans Rosling. This book talks about how most people are actually wrong about the situation of the world. Here, the author talks about how it is unfair to divide the world into developed and developing countries. As per him, people who deemed the world as unhealthy, full of poverty are actually misinformed.
38. Educated
Author: Tara Westover
Originally published: 18 February 2018
The 2018 memoir by Tara Westover and made its place in Gates’s list as well as in the best sellers list. This book describes Westover’s life, her father’s paranoia of hospitals. Her family was isolated from the world and she was 17 years old when she first enters school and how she educated her own self.
39. Army Of None
Author: Paul Scharre
Originally published: 24 April 2018
This 2018 book explores what happened when the era of automatic weapons arrive. In a world where weapons that can identify their own target exists, what will be the outcome if they get hacked? This book gives all those answers.
40. Bad Blood
Author:John Carreyrou
Originally published: 21 May 2018
This 2018 non-fiction book follows the rise and fall of the company, Theranos by Elizabeth Holmes. It was a multi-billion dollar biotech startup. How Elizabeth Holmes was involved in a scam and everything else. This book has also won the 2018 Financial Times and Mckinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
41. 21 Lesson For The 21st Century
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Originally published: 23 August 2018
This 2018 book gives insight into all the important issues that exist in the present world. It covers all the political, social, technological, and existential situations and how should we deal with them. This book provides all those lessons to the readers.
42. The Headspace Guide To Meditation And Mindfulness
Author: Andy Puddicombe
Originally published: 2011
This book teaches the strong techniques of meditation that helps in providing a positive impact in your life. This also conveys that meditation can help in changing your life and one can achieve a different level of calmness and happiness through it. One just needs to give 10 minutes of their day to meditation.
Abinaya Arangarajan
Books Recommended by Bill gates in 2019
43. Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis And Change
Author: Jared Diamond
Originally published: 7 May 2019
This Non-Fiction by Jared Mason Diamond was published in 2019 and immediately become a part of Bill Gates’s book list. This book gives insight into how humans and nations can manage when crises and challenges arise in life. It talks about the six modern nations have managed when they face some catastrophes. This shows how if one sets their minds they have the ability to solve problems.
44. Nine Pints
Author: Rose George
Originally published: 23 October 2018
This book dwells inside the cultural history and science of blood. The importance of blood in life and how it saves lives from deadly infection everything that needs to be known about blood can be found in this book. It also talks about how menstruation is still a topic of taboo.
45. A Gentleman In Moscow
Author: Amor Towles
Originally published: 6 September 2016
This historical fiction of 2016 deals with the theme of romance, parenthood, politics, and poetry and follows the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who was ordered to spend his entire life in a luxury hotel.
46. Presidents Of War
Author: Michael Beschloss
Originally published: 9 October 2018
This 2018 book talks about the Presidents of America during the time of war. It consists of American history and how Presidents had to take all the difficult decisions while there was a war. It also talks about how 21st-century leaders have the power of Nuclear warfare in their hands.
47. The Future Of Capitalism
Author: Paul Collier
Originally published: 4 October 2018
This book by world-renowned economist Paul Collier focuses on modern times’ economic and social inequalities. The book has provided some solutions that are given by some world-known social scientists to save capitalism from itself and minimize the negative aspect that it brings.
48. An American Marriage
Author: Tayari Jones
Originally published: 29 January 2018
An American Marriage is written by Tayari Jones was first published in the year 2018. This fictional story deals with an African-American couple named Celestial and Roy, who faced a big turmoil in their life when Roy was wrongfully accused of rape that he did not commit. This book shows how two people were separated and suffered and how moving forward is sometimes the only option.
49. These Truths
Author: Jill Lepore
Originally published: 18 September 2018
This is a book of American history and has focused on how all truths regarding American politics, laws, and everything has played a role in the evolution of the nation. The book is divided into four sections including a part of modern times as well.
50. Growth
Author: Vaclav Smil
Originally published: 6 September 2019
This 2019 book focuses on the growth of nature and society from tiny microorganisms to big empires. It includes man-made objects as well and talks about the growth of humans from their childhood to their adulthood.
51. Prepared: What Kids Need For A Fulfilled Life
Author: Diane Tavenner
Originally published: 17 September 2019
The book talks about how the parents should help their children in preparing for their future, instead of worrying about it. Diane Tavenner founded a school in 2003, called Summit Public School. In this book, the author shares some personal stories and lessons of the teachers and the students and asks the parents to learn this lesson so that they can prepare their children for the future.
52. Why We Sleep
Author: Matthew Walker
Originally published: 28 September 2017
This 2017 book highlights the importance of sleep in our life and how it helps us in living a healthy life. Sleep is the prime thing that has a huge impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of a human being. The author is a neuroscientist and sleep expert who explains in this book how sleep can secure us from fatal diseases as well. In this book, he also suggests some ways that can guarantee a good night’s sleep.
Ashwini
Books Recommended by Bill gates in 2020
53. The Ride of a Lifetime
Author: Robert Iger
Originally published: 23 September 2019
This memoir written by businessman Bob Iger was able to make into the list of Bill Gates. In this book, Iger talks about the achievement of his life and the lessons he has learned while being the CEO of Walt Disney Company for 15 years.
Here, he has shared all the ideas and values that he has perceived in these years and how he believed optimism, courage, and fairness can help in becoming a better person. Bill Gates said it is one of the business books that he’ll unapologetically recommend, that gives tips on how to build a business.
54. The Choice: Embrace The Possible
Author: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Originally published: 2017
It is an autobiography of Edith Eger when at the age of sixteen she was a gymnast and ballerina and was sent to Auschwitz. This book also includes the point where she saved her sister, in this book she has explained that our mind has become a prison, how freedom can be possible if only we confront our misery.
55. Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Originally published: March 2004
This 2004 book is a merge of historical fiction and science fiction. This story is about the 19th century Hawai in a post-apocalyptic future. It consists of six stories and Bill Gates considers it ‘A wonder mind-bending novel.’
56. The Great Influenza
Author: John M. Barry
Originally published: 2004
This non-fiction talks about the havoc created by the 1918 flu that was one of the worst pandemics in history. The entire history of the 1918 pandemic can be found in this book, how it started, spread, and the invention of medicine to fight against it.
57. Good Economics For Hard Times
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Originally published: 12 November 2019
This 2019 Non-fiction was written by the 2019 Nobel prize winner duo and talks about different economics research that will help in solving the problems faced by the different societies and the modern economies. It includes immigration, inequality in income, climate change, and others.
58. The Spy And The Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story Of The Cold War
Author: Ben Macintyre
Originally published: 18 September 2018
This book by Ben Macintyre was published in the year 2018 and tells the tale of Oleg Gordievsky. This spy thriller throws light on the cold war era and how Gordievsky worked for the West and exposed several Russian spies and destroyed their plans. The story brings the reader to the world of betrayal and is considered one of the best spy thriller books.
59. The New Jim Crow
Author: Michelle Alexander
Originally published: 5 January 2010
This 2010 book covers the topic of race in America and how the justice system sometimes targets people from different communities and colours especially, black people. Racial discrimination is real and this book enlightens people of its horror and its consequence.
60. Range
Author: David Epstein
Originally published: 28 May 2019
In this book, Epstein talked about the world’s most successful people from different fields. He argued that generalists find their path late but they really good at what they do. The book talks about how it is okay to start late and gain lots of experience.
61. The Splendid And The Vile
Author: Erik Larson
Originally published: 25 February 2020
This book by Erik Larson talks about the years 1940 and 1941 when the citizens were worried that Germany would bomb them any day. The fear and anxiety that the people experienced at that time and how Winston Churchill help them out during this period of time.
62. Breath From Salt
Author: Bijal P, Trivedi
Originally published: 8 September 2020
This 2020 book by Trivedi talks about the amazing scientific invention that helps cystic fibrosis patients. The emotions of the family of the patient, the doctor including the patients as well, the book described everything.
Books Recommended by Bill Gates in 2021
63. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion And The Fall Of General Electric
Author: Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Originally published: 21 July 2020
This 2020 book is a Wall street journal bestseller that describes how America’s one of the biggest companies General Electric failed. In here all the mistakes that are done by the company have been explained that has resulted in its downfall.
64. Under A White Sky: The Nature Of The Future
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
This book by Kolbert has mainly focused on numerous types of environmental crises. It talks about how taking the help from technologies for countering climate change can lead to some more problems. This book also talks about the role of technology in our lives in modern times.
65. A Promised Land
Author: Barack Obama
Originally published: 17 November 2020
This 2020 book by Barack Obama, the former President of the United States of America is an autobiography and a memoir and talks about his political career and the years that have changed the history of the country. One of the events that are also included here is the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
66. The Overstory
Author: Richard Powers
Originally published: 3 April 2019
This 2019 book by Powers is an environmental fiction and talks about 9 people from America and their experience with trees and their connections with them that made them realize the importance of trees and what consequences the destruction of forest will bring in the world.
67. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science Of The Immune System
Author: Matt Richtel
Originally published: 12 March 2019
This 2019 book will help you understand the human immune system and its defence network. The book describes how our immunity helps us in healing wounds, fighting deadly diseases, and basically keeping humans alive. Gates considers this book a guideline that will help humans in taking valuable steps to stop Covid-19.
68. Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Originally published: 4 May 2021
This 2021 Science Fiction tells the tale of Ryland Grace, a teacher-turned astronaut who is suffering from amnesia after waking up from a coma. Although he is the last hope of humanity, he doesn’t remember his name. Project Hail Mary talks about discovery and survival. Gates considers it a fun book to read as the plot is woven amazingly.
69. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Author: Matt Richtel
Originally published: 2 March 2021
This book talks about the theory of intelligence and the mystery of brains. It also talks about what will be the future of AI in our world. The book answers some of science’s greatest questions. Gates considered this book fascinating as it talks about the whole architecture of the brain.
70. Hamnet
Author: Maggie O’Farrell
Originally published: 31 March 2020
This 2020 book set a fictional situation where the author meets Sakespeare’s son Hamnet, who died at the young age of 11. The book shows how the grief-stricken family has been torn apart after the death of the little child. Gates said that the book is well written.
71. The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Author: Walter Isaacson
Originally published: 9 March 2021
This book is basically the biography of the 2020 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Jennifer Doudna. Doudna won the prize for showing gene editing where one can cure blood diseases by cutting DNA. It was the number one book on New York Times Bestseller list.
Books Recommended by Bill Gates in 2022
72. The Power
Author: Naomi Alderman
Originally published: 27 October 2016
This 2016 Novel is Science fiction and the plot is surrounded on women who got the ability to produce electric jolts from their fingers, thus making the female gender powerful. The book was recommended by Gates’s daughter to him. The book basically talks about gender equality what could happen when the female gender gets an upper hand.
73. Why We’re Polarized
Author: Ezra Klein
Originally published: 28 January 2020
This 2020 Non-fiction book talks about the political polarization in the United States of America between the two main parties in the country. The book shows you that political ideologies have split up the people of the country and it also talks about the human psychology behind it.
74. The Lincoln Highway
Author: Amor Towles
Originally published: 5 October 2021
The Lincoln Highway is a sequel to a book called A Gentleman in Moscow. The plot surrounded two brothers who are en route to California from Nebraska in search of their mother. The book shows how our journey is never predictable and is full of twists and turns.
75. The Ministry for the Future
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Originally published: 6 October 2020
This 2020 Novel is a Science fiction that revolves around the future world and how climate change has affected the planet. The complexity of the situation has been well explained in the book which could happen in the future if one is not aware of the difficult situation now.
76. How the World Really Works
Author: Vaclav Smil
Originally published: 27 January 2022
The 2022 book covers various topics and is written for general audiences. This book like its title actually talks about how the world works. From food production to energy conservation, it consists of all the basic information that involves our survival on the planet. Gates has considered this book a masterpiece and a must-read.
Disha
Conclusion
Bill Gates has recommended many books and asked people to read them because he strongly believes that a reader becomes a leader in the future. He is an ardent reader himself and reads almost 50 books a year. All these books in the list above will entertain, educate and inspire people with their interesting content and can be considered as treasures for book lovers.
FAQs
Who is Bill Gates?
Bill Gates is an American businessman, author, developer, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of a multinational technology company.
How many Books does Bill Gates read every year?
Bill Gates reads approximately 50 books every year.
Does Bill Gates have a Blog?
Yes, Bill Gates does have a personal blog and its name is Gates Notes.