Bill Gates Recommended Reading
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
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Vaclav Smil
3.76 avg rating — 585 ratings 3. 
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,623 ratings
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
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Carol J. Loomis
3.98 avg rating — 2,722 ratings 9. 
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
by:
Joe Studwell
4.26 avg rating — 4,888 ratings 
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,919 ratings 15. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 
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The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
by:
Leon Hesser
3.83 avg rating — 504 ratings 
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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David Brooks
4.07 avg rating — 32,995 ratings 22. 
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education
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Salman Khan
3.64 avg rating — 2,704 ratings 23. 
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
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Grady Hillhouse
4.22 avg rating — 707 ratings 24. 
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by:
Mustafa Suleyman
3.82 avg rating — 12,139 ratings 25. 
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.34 avg rating — 135,220 ratings 
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
by:
Howard W. French
4.30 avg rating — 1,463 ratings 29. 
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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Hannah Ritchie
4.24 avg rating — 5,948 ratings 30. 
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human 4.29 avg rating — 14,171 ratings
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.85 avg rating — 1,038 ratings 
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.96 avg rating — 13,157 ratings 
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance 4.19 avg rating — 25,749 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,747 ratings 45. 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by:
David Epstein
4.13 avg rating — 76,423 ratings 48. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 132,031 ratings 49. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,099 ratings 50. 
Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
by:
Bijal P. Trivedi
4.43 avg rating — 1,092 ratings 
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
by:
Robert Iger
4.40 avg rating — 93,342 ratings 54. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings 55. 
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems 4.22 avg rating — 14,334 ratings
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
by:
Rose George
3.83 avg rating — 3,839 ratings 
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,821 ratings 66. 
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by:
Paul Scharre
3.81 avg rating — 2,777 ratings 67. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,400 ratings 
69. 
The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
by:
Andy Puddicombe
4.03 avg rating — 13,207 ratings 
71. 
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by:
Kate Bowler
3.80 avg rating — 51,885 ratings 
74. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,308 ratings 
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,906 ratings 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,975 ratings 81. 
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
by:
Eddie Izzard
3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings 
