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
2076 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
14090 Shoe Dog Phil Knight 2016 American English
12698 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
13738 Mindset Carol S. Dweck 2006 American English
2871 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman 1985 American English
4990 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
13702 Poor Charlie's Almanack Charlie Munger 2005 American English
3825 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
14323 Range David Epstein 2019 American English
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
2326 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
15561 Loonshots Safi Bahcall 2019 American English
15561 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
13815 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
2935 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
14434 Einstein Walter Isaacson 2007 American English
12868 Factfulness Hans Rosling 2018 Swedish English
2740 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
14831 Blitzscaling Reid Hoffman 2018 American English
14730 Measure What Matters John Doerr 2017 American English
5641 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
13962 Moonwalking With Einstein Joshua Foer 2011 American English
14519 The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 2010 British English
15610 Play Nice But Win Michael Dell 2021 American English
6377 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
14679 Becoming Steve Jobs Brent Schlender 2015 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
14831 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
3523 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
14452 Behave Robert Sapolsky 2023 American English
6816 Open Andre Agassi 2009 American English
2414 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
14831 Billion Dollar Whale Tom Wright, Bradley Hope 2018 American English
13359 How To Lie With Statistics Darrell Huff 1954 American English
13359 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
11325 The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 American English
5358 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
15561 The Moment Of Lift Melinda Gates 2019 American English
6530 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
12480 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
6604 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
14389 The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman 2005 American English
15561 Tools And Weapons Brad Smith 2019 American English
14519 Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson 2010 American English
14122 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
14598 Abundance Peter Diamandis 2012 American English
14068 The Road To Character David Brooks 2015 American English
4455 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
1701 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
2626 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 2013 French French
14831 Leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 American English
14649 How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 2014 American English
3206 The Prize Daniel Yergin 1991 American English
2229 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
14359 Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein 2020 American English
14498 Too Big To Fail Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 American English
14831 The Book Of Why Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie 2018 American English
13359 Business Adventures John Brooks 1969 American English
15610 The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson 2021 American English
6250 Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson 2012 American English
12289 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
14649 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14410 The Box Marc Levinson 2006 American English
8020 The Rise And Fall Of American Growth Robert J. Gordon 2016 American English
14598 The Signal And The Noise Nate Silver 2012 American English
13211 Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik 2013 British English
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
14679 Thing Explainer Randall Munroe 2015 American English
14730 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
14384 Numbers Don't Lie Vaclav Smil 2021 Czech English
14553 Reinventing Fire Amory Lovins 2011 American English
2588 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
14519 Life Is What You Make It Peter Buffett 2010 American English
5641 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
13702 Collapse Jared Diamond 2005 American English
13359 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Ii Richard P. Feynman 1964 American English
14730 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14498 This Time Is Different Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff 2009 American English
15561 Hacking Darwin Jamie Metzl 2019 American English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
12399 Hot, Flat, And Crowded Thomas L. Friedman 2008 American English
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
14519 Awakening Joy James Baraz 2010 American English
6433 On Immunity Eula Biss 2014 American English
13256 The Great Escape Angus Deaton 2013 British English
14831 Plagues And The Paradox Of Progress Thomas J. Bollyky 2018 American English
14457 Brain Rules John Medina 2008 American English
14090 String Theory David Foster Wallace 2016 American English
13211 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 2013 Australian English
14730 Energy And Civilization Vaclav Smil 2017 Czech English
14831 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14434 Big History Cynthia Stokes Brown 2007 American English
14519 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
14679 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
5263 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
13359 The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. Iii Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
14649 Reinventing American Health Care Ezekiel J. Emanuel 2014 American English
15561 From The Ground Up Howard Schultz 2019 American English
15561 Blueprint Nicholas A. Christakis 2019 American English
14629 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English