5 Books Recommended by Bill Gates to Read This Summer

Bill Gates has a habit: recommending books every year. This year was not going to be less so, one of the men with the most money in the world, He recommends five books that he read over the winter for this summer.

Mark Zuckerberg did something similar last year. In fact he did a project called A Year of Books in which he recommended 23 books that he had read in that year and liked them. He was probably inspired by Bill Gates and the recommendations he made periodically on his blog.

As you can imagine, the recommendation of a book by these people is a great boost in their sales.

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Bill Gates has returned to the load with his recommendations for this summer and recommends the five titles that he liked the most during his winter readings. Let us remember that he lives in Seattle and there the winter lasts 9 months.

It had been 10 years since the computer scientist read a science fiction book but one of 800 pages left him trapped.

Next we are going to see the books that he liked the most (I would like to know the number of books this man reads per year, notice that one of the ones he recommends has 800 pages).

1) 'seveneves'by Neal Stephenson.

It may come as a surprise that Bill Gates has admitted that he hasn't read a science fiction book in 10 years. Surely he prefers to create dystopias than read them. However, this year she made an exception with this great book that was recommended to her by a friend.

The argument of this book, Bill Gates explains it as follows: «There is an explosion on the moon and humanity is aware that in two years thousands of meteors will fall to earth, destroying all forms of life. Humanity devises a plan to survive that consists of launching ships into space to escape the disaster ».

Bill Gates says that there is too much text about ships and that it can be tiresome (after all, there was too much talk about whales in 'Moby Dick'). The fact is that This book has helped you reconnect your love of science fiction books.

2) 'How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life'by Jordan Ellenberg.

Perhaps you think that by its title it is a self-help book that is about making friends and influencing others. However, it is about a book that talks about the importance of mathematics in our day to day and its curiosities. "There are some parts of the book that can be complicated but then the author makes a summary so you don't lose the thread"says Gates.

3) 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity'by Noah Yuval Harari.

This book has a great gift: «Tells the story of the human being in 400 pages». In its first edition it was titled 'From animals to men' and it has sparked numerous conversations between the Gates couple since that ability to synthesize the history of humanity in 400 pages makes it a breeding ground for debate; in fact, there are things that appear in the book and Bill Gates disagrees with them: “There are things that do not convince me, such as Harari's statement that says that human beings lived in better conditions before becoming a farmer. However, 'Sapiens' is a book that I recommend to all those who like history and the future of the human being ».

4) 'The vital issue'by Nick Lane.

This is one of the books that Gates selected to do his list of the best books of 2015. It is about how all living beings on the planet have evolved. Gates has said about its author that "Should know more people".

One of the reasons Gates uses to praise its author is that understanding how the first life forms began is very important from a medical point of view and in the application of this knowledge to the cure of cancer. "Even if Nick's work was wrong, I think that putting the focus of attention on the aspects that the book deals with helps to understand our origin, where we come from"says Gates.

5) 'The Power to Compete: an Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy'by Hiroshi Mikitani and Ryoichi Mikitani.

Many years ago, Bill Gates went to Japan, it was his first time. What the computer scientist saw was an economically strong country that was on the rise in terms of technology and economy. It was a world reference. However, today, many Japanese companies have been overtaken and eclipsed by other companies from China and South Korea.

The book is about the debate that a son has with his father about the situation in his country. Some people will recognize that this family owns Rakuten (the Japanese Amazon). They deal with topics such as the Japanese economic crisis, the effort that the country is making to be more competitive and the difficulties that the Japanese have to become businessmen and entrepreneurs.