比尔·盖茨爱看的书都在这儿了
Bill Gates is a very busy man, but as his admirers know, he makes time to read. The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist regularly reviews books on his website and formulates lists of his favorite books of the year, or the best ones on a given subject. Here is every book he's ever recommended on his website, from highly academic texts to The Hunger Games.Note: In the assorted reviews category, we left off books that had been included in other lists — but when the same book appeared on multiple reading lists, we allowed the repetition.
My Favorite Books of 2016
• String Theory by David Foster Wallace
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown
• The Grid by Gretchen Bakke
5 Books to Read This Summer, 2016
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• How Not to be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
• The Vital Question by Nick Lane
• The Power to Compete by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Noah Yuval Harari
The Best Books I Read in 2015
• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
• Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas
• Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen, et al.
• Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
• The Vital Question by Nick Lane
Beach Reading (and More), 2015
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
• What If? by Randall Munroe
• XKCD by Randall Munroe
• On Immunity by Eula Biss
• How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
• Should We Eat Meat? by Vaclav Smil
6 Books I Recommended for TED 2015
• Business Adventures by John Brooks
• The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• On Immunity by Eula Biss
• Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil
• How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
The Best Books I Read in 2014
• Business Adventures by John Brooks
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
• How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
• Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization by Vaclav Smil
Good Disease Books, 2014
• The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
• House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H. Foege
• Smallpox: The Death of a Disease by D.A. Henderson
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
6 Books I’d Recommend, 2014
• Business Adventures by John Brooks
• Stress Test by Timothy F. Geithner
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• (Bonus: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
• The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
10 Books Melinda and I Recommended to the TED Crowd, 2014
• The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
• Getting Better by Charles Kenny
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser
• Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil
• The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow
• However Long the Night by Aimee Molloy
• In the Company of the Poor by Paul Farmer and Gustavo Gutierrez
• Change by Design by Tim Brown
• Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee