Your summer 2017 reading list, provided by bill gates. He was born on october 28, 1955, in seattle, washington, and is the son of william henry gates ii and mary gates. Bill gates books list of books by author bill gates. Here are the 7 books that bill gates says you need to read. The 5 books bill gates wants you to read this summer. William henry gates iii, known in the world as bill gates, is a computer scientist, philanthropist and american businessman, known for being the creator of microsoft with paul allen. Five books billionaire bill gates thinks you should read this summer. While not everyone may have as much time as bill gates to read up on as. The best books, recommended by bill gates are considered bill gatess favorite books of all times. Bill gates is such an inspiration to us here at alux and we enjoyed digging to see which. Bill gates is the cofounder of microsoft and currently the richest man in the world. A full list of bill gates favorite books in 2019and from this decade. If youre looking for book recommendations, bill gates is your guy. Five books billionaire bill gates thinks you should read.
Learn about the major challenges faced by the health community in disease eradication and what public health is. Diane tavenners book offers amazing tips on preparing kids for college, a career, and life. What is the best book on bill gates business or biography. Steven pinkers new book makes a powerful case for why the world is getting better. His winter reading list of five important books may help. Continuing an ongoing tradition, avid reader and book fan bill gates has posted his beach reads picks on gates notes for this summer.
Top 9 books recommended by bill gates you must read. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the biography of bill gates. To the surprise of no one, bill gates favors nonfiction and classic stories instead of modern fiction. Gates told us the four habits and hacks he does to get the most out of his reading. Bill gates is passionate about reading and recommending books he. Bill gates, the worlds richest man, just shared a list of five books that he recommends others read this holiday season gates picks span multiple genres from fiction to history to parenting.
December is a great time to take stock of everything youve done over. Gates shares his love of reading with a host of successful people who know that reading is essential for learning new things, thinking differently, and becoming wiser day by day. The billionaire calls each of these picks a mustread from an 800page scifi novel to a biochemists quest to solve one of. In fact, the billionaire consumes about 50 books per year. Gates ii, a prominent seattle lawyer, and mary gates, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. Secrets behind the success of the microsoft billionaire.
Bill gates shares favorite books he read in 2019 time. Reading these books is pretty fundamental for new hires. Plus, i think everyone could use a few more books in their lives. What kids need for a fulfilled life, by diane tavenner. I loved it so much that i immediately bought all of lanes other books. Peter buffett has been successful in his life too, although not completely. Bill gates lionel bonaventureafp via getty images bill gates reads serious books. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A full list of bill gates favorite books in 2019and from. As a teenager, gates realized how computers were about. Books bill gates thinks you should read business insider.
The five books on my endofyear list will help you start 2020 on a good note. It has 100 pages packed with photos that showcase gates life from childhood to his charitable works to brushes with the justice department. This book stands at the number one position in bill gates recommended book list. Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist bill gates is an incredibly busy man, but he always makes time to read.
Get into the library of bill gates, one of the most successful men in the us, and learn his secrets. Bill gates shares his reading list to help you start 2020. I would have to say the innovator by walter isaacson. Bill gates mentioned that this book is so beautifully written that it will mesmerize the readers with the real grander view of life and not with simplistic explanations. It first gives an overview of bills current life but then chronicles his life in a predictable sequence from his. These 5 books are so good, they kept me up past bedtime. Bill gates introduction of surely youre joking, mr.
As an educator, i would highly recommend this book to other educators to use as quality reading material for high school. Bill gates favorite book recommendations offer quite an eclectic mix. The life story of bill gates and how he rose to fame by creating the company microsoft organization this story is essentially the life story of bill gates. The 31 most influential books about business business.
The third metric to redefining success and creating a life of wellbeing, wisdom, and wonder by arianna. Showing up for life is a wonderful collection of short essay from bills father, promoting good life principles in his stories of. Top 10 authorized and unauthorized books on bill gates. The ultimate bill gates book recommendation list quartz. It tells us about the life of two boys studying in a boarding school in the early 1940s. Bill gates biography life, family, childhood, children. This book is 7 chapters that detail the life of bill gates from his meager start all he way up to now. All the books bill gates has recommended over the last eight years. Alux 15 bill gates books everyone should read how not to be wrong.
The 5 books billionaire bill gates recommends for summer reading the microsoft cofounders 2018 picks wrestle with big questions. As the founder of microsoft corporation, bill gates is a legendary pioneer in science, math and computers, revolutionizing the world with his research and expertise. Bill gates shares his reading list to help you start 2020 on a good note microsoft founder bill gates reportedly reads 50 books a year. Bill gatess reading list is a list of the most recent recommended books that the microsoft cofounder says he loved reading during his summer vacation in bill gates blog. Microsofts bill gates, cofounder of the bill and melinda gates foundation, weighs in on the coronavirus pandemic, saying the number of us cases has not yet peaked and the country wont. Reading books is my favorite way to learn about a new topic, he wrote on his blog. Gates entered harvard university in 1973 and pursued his studies for the next year and a half. Discount prices on books by bill gates, including titles like blitzscaling. A full life feels timely in an era when the publics confidence in national political figures and. It first gives an overview of bill s current life but then chronicles his life in a predictable sequence from his childhood, teen years and then his adult years. What i loved most about this read is the succulent details offered. The gates foundation focuses primarily on progressing healthcare, so it comes as no surprise that one of bill gates favorite books is about how to eradicate disease. The result is a holistic picture of how and why the world is getting better. F or his annual list of book recommendations, bill gates reflected on several of the best works he came across in 2019.
The story about two friends, gene and phineas, by john knowles is an undisputed american classic. The vital question, by nick lane, is an amazing inquiry into the origins of life. I read one book this year that definitely deserves a spot on this list, but i havent had time to give it the full writeup it deserves. They face a number of obstacles, even have something like the wwii itself between them, making for the life of. Bill gates, who reads an average of about one book per week, says reading is his favorite way to learn about a new topic, according to one of his blog posts aside from a few novels, most of his. Actually, this book was so important to bill gates that he made a short video about it. Secrets behind the success of the microsoft billionaire biographies of famous people series kindle edition by walters, steve. When gates was born in 1955, no one in the world owned a personal computer. Bill gates reads about 50 books every year, mark cuban reads three hours every day, mark zuckerberg resolved to read 24 books in a year, and warren buffett spends 80 percent of his day reading. Secrets behind the success of the microsoft billionaire is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most influential and prominent figures of the modern era, bill gates. Entrepreneur bill gates founded the worlds largest software business, microsoft, with paul allen, and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world. The 5 books billionaire bill gates recommends for summer.
William henry gates iii was born in seattle, washington on october 28, 1955. And how they helped him choose this years list of 10 breakthrough technologies. Reading books is one of my favorite ways to learn new things and better understand the world. Succeeding in the digital economy, and the road ahead, and more on.
Join the gates notes community to get regular updates from bill on key topics like global health and climate change, to access exclusive content, comment on stories, participate in giveaways, and more. Lesinski is an easy and entertaining read about bill gates life. Find out the best of bill gates and learn deep insights and great life lessons. Then think harder about mitochondria and the meaning of life. Bill gates reads 50 books per year and hes not alone. Gates doesnt simply like this book, but says it is the best book hes read in a decade and if he could recommend just one book for someone to. Bill gates reads about 50 books a year, which breaks down to about one a week.
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