Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, is technology’s richest man. Below is a categorized list of his favorite books on each topic:
2016 - five books to read for summer:
- Seveneves
- The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life,
- How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Best Books Bill Gates Read In 2015
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- The Vital Question
- Being Nixon: A Man Divided
- Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open
Bill Gates 2014 summer list
- “Business adventures” by John Brooks
- The Bully Pulpit ” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion
- The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Stress Test” by by Timothy F. Giethner
- Reinventing American Health Care” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Nine books
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013 by Carol J. Loomis
- Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization by Vaclav Smil
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy F. Geithner
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- The Man Who Fed the World by Hesser Hesser
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
Education:
- Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy
- Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
- Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
- Who's Teaching Your Children?: Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It
- Work Hard. Be Nice.
- Liberating Learning
- Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go?
- Stretching the School Dollar
- Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
Energy:
- World on the Edge - How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
- Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
- Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
- The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
- Energy Myths and Realities (Book Review)
- Energy Transitions (Book Review)
- Sustainable Energy (Book Review)
Development:
- How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
- The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Book Review)
- Why America is Not a New Rome
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carol Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production
- Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- The Man Who Fed the Wordl: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
- Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
- Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System
- The Emperor of all Maladies - A Biography of Cancer
- The Changing Body - Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700
- The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
- Polio: An American Story (Book Review)
- Jim Grant - UNICEF Visionary (Book Review)
Personal:
- For the Love of Physics (Book Review)
- 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
- The New Science of Strong Materials (Book Review)
- Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- In Fed We Trust (Book Review)
- SuperFreakonomics (Book Review)
- Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines