Every year, powerful men and women gather in the Swiss Alps for a submit known as the World Economic Forum. Two of the mainstays of WEF are Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, a pair of the richest people in the world. Well, those two have both championed reading as one of their keys to success and now the WEF has unveiled a list of books the duo recommend. It includes picks that have been mentioned by Gates or Zuckerberg over the past few years. While we can’t guarantee reading the selections will line your pockets, we can guarantee it won’t hurt your chances.
- Creativity, Inc (Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace) – $21
- The Gene: An Intimate History (Siddhartha Mukherjee) – $12
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker) –$18
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Sudhir Venkatesh) – $13
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari) – $21
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Phil Knight) – $17
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn) – $9
- String Theory (David Foster Wallace) – $14
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson) – $16
- The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu) – $10
- World Order (Henry Kissinger) – $13
- Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge (Michael Suk-Young Chwe) – $25
- The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Gretchen Bakke) – $11
- Seveneves (Neal Stephenson) – $12
