Books Recommended by CEOs and Entrepreneurs via Bill Gates

The following are the books recommended by the top business leaders and researchers and it was shared by Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-Founder, in his blog. The books are of diverse nature, they are in different fields such as Business, Economy, Science, Religion, Philosophy etc.




Recommended by Vinod Khosla:


The Score Takes Care of Itself  by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh


The Lean Startup by Eric Ries


The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gwande


The Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol


The Power of Habit  by Charles Duhigg


The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe


Willpower by Roy Baumeister & John Tierney

Recommended by Vaclav Smil:

R. F. Burton: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah (The University of Adelaide University, Free eBook)

M. Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson

G. von Rezzori: The Snows of Yesteryear  

G. von Rezzori: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

J. Crace: Continent

J. Renoir: Renoir, My Father

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

J.M. Allwood and J.M. Cullen: Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open

B. Berge:The Ecology of Building Materials

M.N. Eisler: Overpotential

P. Nolan: Is China Buying the World?

Recommended by Nathan Myhrvold:

A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss

Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, Lisa Randall

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves, Dan Ariely

Recommended by Arne Duncan:

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen

Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

Recommended by Steven Pinker:

Peter Diamandis, Abundance

Henry Hitching, The Language Wars

Rebecca Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction 

Recommended by David Christian:

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined

Anders Aslund, How Capitalism was Built

Anders Aslund, Russia's Capitalis Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed

Anders Aslund, How Ukrine became a Market Economy and Democracy

Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe: And Why Anything that can Happen, Does

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, Why does E = mc2: (And why should we care?). 

Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Trues Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth after Us: What Legacy will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

Recommended by Charles Kenny:

A Splendid Exchange by William Bernstein

Recommended by Atul Gawande:

The Swerve – Stephen Greenblatt

The Green Eagle Score and The Black Ice Score – Richard Stark (pen name of Donald Westlake for his Parker novels)

Alien vs. Predator – Michael Robbins

The Kings of Cool – Don Winslow

What books you recommend to others?