Bill Gates' 8 Favorite Books
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- Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
- The growth of just about everything, from dinosaurs to the number of transistors on a computer chip, is nothing short of brilliant
- How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
- An overview of exactly how our material world, from concrete to fertilizer, is made
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- Our world is not only growing less violent, but also more rational, prosperous, and all around better
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- 'Safetyism' is cramping young minds
- Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
- What's driving Americans' division into highly partisan political camps
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- A Russian count sentenced to 30 years of house arrest in a hotel by the Bolsheviks
- The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal
- The untimely death of a young man and his family's decision to donate his heart
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- A German soldier and a blind French girl whose lives collide during World War II
- Source: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/bill-gates-all-time-best-books.html