Books Bill Gates has reviewed and recommended
The books Bill Gates has reviewed on his blog, Gates Notes, since 2010, and the ones he has named on its summer and holiday reading lists.
218 books
Books by Bill Gates →The best-known books on the list
- The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger - Sapiens
SapiensYuval Noah Harari - Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange LandRobert Heinlein - The Martian
The MartianAndy Weir - All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr - The atmosphere
The atmosphereFrederick K. Lutgens and Edward Tarbuck - Cloud Atlas
Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell - What If?
What If?Randall Munroe - The Rosie Project
The Rosie ProjectGraeme Simsion - Educated
EducatedTara Westover - Thinking, fast and slow
Thinking, fast and slowDaniel Kahneman - When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyYuval Noah Harari - Project Hail Mary
Project Hail MaryAndy Weir - Klara and the Sun
Klara and the SunKazuo Ishiguro - The New Jim Crow
The New Jim CrowMichelle Alexander - How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with StatisticsDarrell Huff and Irving Geis - Shoe Dog
Shoe DogPhil Knight - A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles - Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly ElegyJ.D. Vance - Born a Crime
Born a CrimeTrevor Noah - Superfreakonomics
SuperfreakonomicsSteven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - These Truths
These TruthsJill Lepore - Factfulness
FactfulnessHans Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
All 218 books, by author
- ATomorrow's Table · Pamela C. Ronald and R.W. Adamchak
- Jim Grant · Peter Adamson
- The Power · Naomi Alderman
- Awakening joy · James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander
- The New Jim Crow · Michelle Alexander
- Infectious Generosity · Chris Anderson
- Interventions · Kofi Annan
- BThe grid · Gretchen Bakke
- Poor Economics · Abhijit Banerjee
- The Great Influenza · John M. Barry
- The cost of hope · Amanda Bennett
- The man who stayed behind · Amanda Bennett
- Presidents of War · Michael Beschloss
- On immunity · Eula Biss
- Surrender · Bono
- Behind the beautiful forevers · Katherine Boo
- Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved · Kate Bowler
- Class Warfare · Steven Brill
- The art of being unreasonable · Eli Broad
- How to Know a Person · David Brooks
- The Road to Character · David Brooks
- Business Adventures · John Brooks
- Hyperbole and a Half · Allie Brosh
- The Myth of the Strong Leader · Archie Brown
- Life is what you make it · Peter Buffett
- The Best We Could Do · Thi Bui
- CBad Blood · John Carreyrou
- A Full Life · Jimmy Carter
- Blueprint · Nicholas Christakis
- Origin Story · David Christian
- The Future of Capitalism · Paul Collier
- One Billion Hungry · Gordon Conway
- Patriot and Assassin · Robert Cook
- Weather for Dummies · John D. Cox
- Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open · Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen
- DThe Magic of Reality · Richard Dawkins
- The Great Escape · Angus Deaton
- Edison And The Rise Of Innovation · Leonard DeGraaf
- Evicted · Matthew Desmond
- The world until yesterday · Jared Diamond
- Upheaval · Jared Diamond
- Who Knew · Barry Diller
- All the Light We Cannot See · Anthony Doerr
- Measure what matters · John Doerr
- Speed and Scale · John Doerr
- Superfreakonomics · Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Good Economics for Hard Times · Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Mindset · Carol Dweck
- EThe choice · Edith Eva Eger
- How Not to Be Wrong · Jordan Ellenberg
- Reinventing American Health Care · Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Range · David Epstein
- FInfections and inequalities · Paul Farmer
- Why Does College Cost So Much? · Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman
- House on fire · William H. Foege
- Moonwalking with Einstein · Joshua Foer
- Born in Blackness · Howard French
- GThe Inner Game of Tennis · Timothy Gallwey
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World · Melinda Gates
- How to Lie with Statistics · Darrell Huff and Irving Geis
- Stress Test · Timothy Geithner
- Nine pints · Rose George
- Team of Rivals · Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Bully Pulpit · Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Unfinished Love Story · Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The new science of strong materials, or, Why you don't fall through the floor · J. E. Gordon
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth · Robert Gordon
- Personal history · Katharine Graham
- Everything Is Tuberculosis · John Green
- Turtles All the Way Down · John Green
- HThe Anxious Generation · Jonathan Haidt
- The Women · Kristin Hannah
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century · Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus · Yuval Noah Harari
- Sapiens · Yuval Noah Harari
- A Thousand Brains · Jeff Hawkins
- Physical geology · James S. Monroe with Reed Wicander and Richard Hazlett
- Stranger in a Strange Land · Robert Heinlein
- Smallpox : the Death of a Disease · D.A. Henderson
- The Man Who Fed the World · Leon Hesser
- Engineering in Plain Sight · Grady Hillhouse
- Culpability · Bruce Holsinger
- IThe Ride of a Lifetime · Robert Iger
- Leonardo da Vinci · Walter Isaacson
- The Code Breaker · Walter Isaacson
- Klara and the Sun · Kazuo Ishiguro
- Believe me · Eddie Izzard
- JPoor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) · Morten Jerven
- Where good ideas come from · Steven Johnson
- An American Marriage · Tayari Jones
- KThinking, fast and slow · Daniel Kahneman
- When Breath Becomes Air · Paul Kalanithi
- Getting better · Charles Kenny
- Heart · Maylis de Kerangal
- Brave New Words · Sal Khan
- Why We're Polarized · Ezra Klein
- Shoe Dog · Phil Knight
- Japan's dietary transition and its impacts · Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi
- The Sixth Extinction · Elizabeth Kolbert
- Under a White Sky · Elizabeth Kolbert
- Abundance · Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Chasing Hope · Nick Kristof
- LThe vital question · Nick Lane
- The splendid and the vile · Erik Larson
- These Truths · Jill Lepore
- The Box · Marc Levinson
- For the Love of Physics · Walter Lewin
- Tap Dancing to Work : Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 · Carol Loomis
- MThe Spy and the Traitor · Ben Macintyre
- Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air · David MacKay
- That used to be us · Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
- Lights Out · Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
- Work hard. Be nice · Jay Matthews
- The Limits to Growth · Donella Meadows
- The Power to Compete · Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
- Stuff Matters · Mark Miodownik
- Cloud Atlas · David Mitchell
- However Long the Night · Aimee Molloy
- The Gene · Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Song of the Cell · Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The idealist · Nina Munk
- How To · Randall Munroe
- Thing Explainer · Randall Munroe
- What If? · Randall Munroe
- xkcd · Randall Munroe
- NHit Refresh · Satya Nadella
- The Sympathizer · Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Born a Crime · Trevor Noah
- OHamnet · Maggie O'Farrell
- A Promised Land · Barack Obama
- Stretching the School Dollar · Frederick M. Hess and Eric Osberg
- Polio · David Oshinsky
- PRemarkably Bright Creatures · Shelby Van Pelt
- Le capital au XXIe siècle · Thomas Piketty
- Enlightenment now · Steven Pinker
- The better angels of our nature · Steven Pinker
- When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows · Steven Pinker
- The Overstory · Richard Powers
- The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness · Andy Puddicombe
- RA nation of wusses · Ed Rendell
- Planet Earth · John Renton
- An Elegant Defense : The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System · Matt Richtel
- The Rational Optimist · Matt Ridley
- Clearing the Air · Hannah Ritchie
- Not the End of the World · Hannah Ritchie
- Why Nations Fail · Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- The Ministry for the Future · Kim Stanley Robinson
- This time is different · Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- Academically Adrift · Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
- Factfulness · Hans Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
- Change.edu · Andrew Rosen
- Most Powerful Idea in the World · William Rosen
- The Color of Law · Richard Rothstein
- Educational economics · Marguerite Roza
- SThe bet · Paul Sabin
- The Catcher in the Rye · J. D. Salinger
- Behave · Robert Sapolsky
- Lincoln in the Bardo · George Saunders
- Army of none · Paul Scharre
- Gray Matters · Theodore H. Schwartz
- The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years · Sonia Shah
- Super sad true love story · Gary Shteyngart
- The Signal and the Noise · Nate Silver
- The Rosie effect · Graeme Simsion
- The Rosie Project · Graeme Simsion
- the Rosie Result · Graeme Simsion
- Energies · Vaclav Smil
- Energy and Civilization · Vaclav Smil
- Energy at the Crossroads · Vaclav Smil
- Energy myths and realities · Vaclav Smil
- Energy transitions · Vaclav Smil
- Enriching the Earth · Vaclav Smil
- Global catastrophes and trends · Vaclav Smil
- Grand Transitions · Vaclav Smil
- Growth · Vaclav Smil
- Harvesting The Biosphere What We Have Taken From Nature · Vaclav Smil
- How the World Really Works · Vaclav Smil
- How to Feed the World · Vaclav Smil
- Invention and Innovation · Vaclav Smil
- Made in the USA · Vaclav Smil
- Making the Modern World · Vaclav Smil
- Numbers Don't Lie · Vaclav Smil
- Prime movers of globalization · Vaclav Smil
- Should we eat meat? · Vaclav Smil
- The Earth's Biosphere · Vaclav Smil
- Why America is not a new Rome · Vaclav Smil
- Epic measures · Jeremy N. Smith
- 1929 · Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Whistling Vivaldi · Claude Steele
- Eradication · Nancy Leys Stepan
- Seveneves · Neal Stephenson
- A world-class education · Vivien Stewart
- The Price of Inequality · Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Mendeleyev's Dream · Paul Strathern
- How Asia Works · Joe Studwell
- The Coming Wave · Mustafa Suleyman
- TThe atmosphere · Frederick K. Lutgens and Edward Tarbuck
- Prepared · Diane Tavenner
- Being Nixon · Evan Thomas
- Abundance · Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
- How children succeed · Paul Tough
- A Gentleman in Moscow · Amor Towles
- The Lincoln Highway · Amor Towles
- Breath from Salt · Bijal P. Trivedi
- VHillbilly Elegy · J.D. Vance
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China · Ezra F. Vogel
- WWhy We Sleep · Matthew Walker
- String Theory · David Foster Wallace
- Black flags · Joby Warrick
- Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir
- The Martian · Andy Weir
- In Fed we trust · David Wessel
- Capitalism without capital · Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
- Educated · Tara Westover
- YThe Quest · Daniel Yergin
- I Contain Multitudes · Ed Yong
- ZTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow · Gabrielle Zevin
- The city that became safe · Franklin Zimring
Titles we couldn't find (1)
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- Federer · Doris Henkel · 2024 · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek catalogue (SRU)