Bill Gatesbook recommendations

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

87 books recommended by Bill Gates

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger

Loonshots

Safi Bahcall

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Einstein

Walter Isaacson

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Factfulness

Hans Rosling

Play Nice But Win

Michael Dell

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

The Martian

Andy Weir

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

On the Shortness of Life

Lucius Seneca

Becoming Steve Jobs

Brent Schlender

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

Evicted

Matthew Desmond

Behave

Robert M. Sapolsky

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Billion Dollar Whale

Tom Wright & Bradley Hope

Educated

Tara Westover

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

Open

Andre Agassi

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

The Moment of Lift

Melinda Gates

Abundance

Peter Diamandis

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.

Buffett

Roger Lowenstein

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Inner Game of Tennis

W. Timothy Gallwey

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

Leadership

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Road to Character

David Brooks

The World Is Flat

Thomas L. Friedman

Tools and Weapons

Brad Smith

Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

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