Bill Gate's Book Recommendations

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Bill Gates, 258 Books

All books recommended by Bill Gates

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
14122 Principles Ray Dalio 2017 American English
2077 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
14090 Shoe Dog Phil Knight 2016 American English
12700 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
13739 Mindset Carol S. Dweck 2006 American English
2873 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman 1985 American English
4993 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
13703 Poor Charlie's Almanack Charlie Munger 2005 American English
3824 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
14324 Range David Epstein 2019 American English
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
2328 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
15567 Loonshots Safi Bahcall 2019 American English
15567 The Ride Of A Lifetime Robert Iger 2019 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
13816 The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande 2009 American English
14122 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
2936 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
14435 Einstein Walter Isaacson 2007 American English
12870 Factfulness Hans Rosling 2018 Swedish English
2741 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
14833 Blitzscaling Reid Hoffman 2018 American English
14731 Measure What Matters John Doerr 2017 American English
5643 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
13962 Moonwalking With Einstein Joshua Foer 2011 American English
14520 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 2010 British English
15616 Play Nice But Win Michael Dell 2021 American English
6379 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
14680 Becoming Steve Jobs Brent Schlender 2015 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
14833 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
3523 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
14453 Behave Robert Sapolsky 2023 American English
6816 Open Andre Agassi 2009 American English
2416 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
14833 Billion Dollar Whale Tom Wright, Bradley Hope 2018 American English
13362 How To Lie With Statistics Darrell Huff 1954 American English
11575 The Inner Game Of Tennis W. Timothy Gallwey 1974 American English
14061 Buffett Roger Lowenstein 1995 American English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
11328 The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 American English
5359 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
15567 The Moment Of Lift Melinda Gates 2019 American English
6531 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
12482 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
14390 The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman 2005 American English
15567 Tools And Weapons Brad Smith 2019 American English
14520 Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson 2010 American English
14122 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
14599 Abundance Peter Diamandis 2012 American English
14068 The Road To Character David Brooks 2015 American English
4456 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
1701 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
2627 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 2013 French French
14833 Leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 American English
14650 How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 2014 American English
3206 The Prize Daniel Yergin 1991 American English
2230 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
14360 Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein 2020 American English
14499 Too Big To Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 American English
14833 The Book Of Why Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie 2018 American English
13362 Business Adventures John Brooks 1969 American English
15616 The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson 2021 American English
6252 Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson 2012 American English
12290 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
14176 The Spy And The Traitor Ben Macintyre 2018 British English
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
14650 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14411 The Box Marc Levinson 2006 American English
8021 The Rise And Fall Of American Growth Robert J. Gordon 2016 American English
14599 The Signal And The Noise Nate Silver 2012 American English
13214 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
14680 Thing Explainer Randall Munroe 2015 American English
14731 Destined For War Graham Allison 2017 American English
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
14385 Numbers Don't Lie Vaclav Smil 2021 Czech English
14554 Reinventing Fire Amory Lovins 2011 American English
2589 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
14520 Life Is What You Make It Peter Buffett 2010 American English
5643 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
13703 Collapse Jared Diamond 2005 American English
13362 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Ii Richard P. Feynman 1964 American English
14731 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14499 This Time Is Different Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff 2009 American English
15567 Hacking Darwin Jamie Metzl 2019 American English
4979 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
12401 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
14520 Awakening Joy James Baraz 2010 American English
6435 On Immunity Eula Biss 2014 American English
13259 The Great Escape Angus Deaton 2013 British English
14833 Plagues And The Paradox Of Progress Thomas J. Bollyky 2018 American English
14458 Brain Rules John Medina 2008 American English
14090 String Theory David Foster Wallace 2016 American English
13214 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 2013 Australian English
14731 Energy And Civilization Vaclav Smil 2017 Czech English
14833 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14435 Big History Cynthia Stokes Brown 2007 American English
14520 The Most Powerful Idea In The World William Rosen 2010 American English
14051 What If? Randall Munroe 2014 American English
1276 The Feynman Lectures on Physics Richard P. Feynman 1963 American English
14680 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
5264 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
13362 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Iii Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
14650 Reinventing American Health Care Ezekiel J. Emanuel 2014 American English
15567 From The Ground Up Howard Schultz 2019 American English
15567 Blueprint Nicholas A. Christakis 2019 American English
14630 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English