These books gave Bill something to think about. He hopes they do the same for you. Gates published a video about each book, you can watch it here. We wanted to make a simple site, so here it is!
Type: Nonfiction
GE used to be one of the major companies but today it's worth a fraction of what it once was. Did Jack Welch pick the right successor... it makes you wonder what actually happened.
Type: Nonfiction
That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Negative effects on climate change among other issues, there are a variety of issues that we need to solve.
Type: Nonfiction
How Barack became president of the united states, the tough decisions that he made, which ones he got right, etc. There are lots of insights to great leadership.
Type: Fiction
The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. Beauty of nature and the imporatance of trees... It makes for a great fiction storey about worlds colliding.
Type: Nonfiction
The human immune system is quite phenomenal, over the last ten years our science has evolved and now is able to make vaccines and cure lots of additional diseases. This book is fascinating!