–Bill Gates’s five new must-read books for 2022
This winter holiday, billionaire Bill Gates is recommending this Bill Gates’s Must-read Book List to enrich your mindset and also help you enjoy some holiday time with families.
As we know, Gates, a ravening reader who reads more than 50 books each year, regularly shares some of the must-read books he ever read and also makes some summer and winter holidays’ recommendations.
This year, the 67-year-old bookworm published his 2022 holiday reading list on November 21, which includes some of the newly came out and of course some of his favorite of all time. Let’s check out what we have on Bill Gates’s Book list:
1. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
This book is a grown-up sci-fi classic and holds a special place in Gates’ heart. “This book is still one of my favorite sci-fi of all time.” according to Bill Gates. “He also does the classic sci-fi thing of using an obviously fictional setting to ask profound questions about human nature,” Gates added.
It tells the story that a young man was raised up on the Mars and later he travels to a futuristic planet——Earth, where he struggles to comprehend human concepts of religion and war.
Gates values this book because he believes this book pushes one’s thinking limit about what is possible in the future.
2. Surrender, by Bono
Yes, Bono is the guy who leads the rock band U2. That him.
This is an autobiographical book came out this month by Bono himself. Gates opinionated it as “the best memoir by a rock star I actually know.” If you are a U2 fan, then it is time to get a copy and start to read.
Actually, Gates and Bono have been close friends for many years and they often work as parters to address some philanthropic issues, raising awareness and collecting funds to alleviate global concerns such as climate change and global health.
As for this book, it mainly revolves around how Bono grew up from the suburbs of Dublin and later became a world-renowned rock star and philanthropist.
3. Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
This is a 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning book authored by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
“Team of Rivals” is themed as a biography of Abraham Lincoln and the men who served in his first Cabinet, several of whom had previously opposed Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
The book highlights Lincoln’s capabilities to reconcile opposing viewpoints among his own advisors, and “has a lot of insights about Lincoln that leaders can learn from today,” Gates wrote.
Gates feels this book is extremely insightful since America now is facing violent insurrections, tough questions about race, and deep idealogical divides.
4. The Inner Game of Tennis, by Timothy Gallwey
This book is tailored for tennis players or even amateurs who aim to excel at playing tennis. In this book, Gallwey, a tennis coach, illustrated about how one’s state of mind could impact a person’s performance as much as——if not more obviously than——his or her physical fitness can do.
Gates first read this book more than four decades ago, and has since then read it multiple times. “He gives excellent advice about how to move on constructively from mistakes, which I’ve tried to follow both on and off the court over the years.” Gates wrote this in his notes.
5. Mendeleyev’s Dream, by Paul Strathern
If by any chance you still remember the great chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who formulated the first version of the periodic table in 1869, then it will be easy for you to get what this book is about.
This book written by an academic named Paul Strathern tells the 2000 history of chemistry, which is filled with quirky characters like Dimitri Mendeleyev. It helps the readers to navigate the history of chemistry all the way back to its origins in ancient Greece.
“Aside from being a neat piece of art, the periodic table reminds me of how one discovery can lead to countless others,” Gates noted. “All the complexity of the universe comes from the properties on that chart. Because we understand atoms, we can make chips, and therefore we can make software, and therefore we can make AI. Everything goes back to the periodic table
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