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Bill Gates's book recommendations

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Some of Bill Gates's favorite titles of the last 8 years
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A collection of some of Bill Gates's favorite titles of the last 8 years.

Bill Gates's book recommendations

Some of Bill Gates's favorite titles of the last 8 years
Origin Story
Origin Story
David Christian
A Big History of Everything
30 min
4.3
The Grid
The Grid
Gretchen Bakke
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
20 min
4.2
On Immunity
On Immunity
Eula Biss
An Inoculation
19 min
3.2
Mighty Be Our Powers
Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers
How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
19 min
4.6
The End of Poverty
The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
19 min
4.1
Change by Design
Change by Design
Tim Brown
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
16 min
4.2
Superintelligence
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
17 min
4.1
Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
23 min
4.0
I Contain Multitudes
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
14 min
4.3
Energy
Energy
Vaclav Smil
A Beginner’s Guide
17 min
3.5
The Box
The Box
Marc Levinson
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
23 min
4.5
Should We Eat Meat?
Should We Eat Meat?
Vaclav Smil
Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
20 min
3.3
The Master Algorithm
The Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos
How The Quest For The Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
20 min
4.4
Homo Deus
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Tomorrow
20 min
4.3
The Road to Character
The Road to Character
David Brooks
Learn how to make yourself whole
12 min
3.8
The Myth of the Strong Leader
The Myth of the Strong Leader
Archie Brown
Political Leadership in the Modern Age
13 min
3.9
Born a Crime
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Stories from a South African Childhood
17 min
4.4
The Signal and the Noise
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
23 min
4.2
Factfulness
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
17 min
4.3
The Magic of Reality
The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins
How We Know What’s Really True
25 min
4.4
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