Five books Bill Gates says you should read this summer
Summer is almost here and it’s the perfect time to grab a book and enjoy it whether it’s indoors our outdoors. And Bill Gates has a list of five books he and his wife Melinda have read recently and what to share with the world.
On his blog, Bill Gates says he found himself drawn even more than usual to books that took him ‘outside.’
“The books on this year’s summer reading list pushed me out of my own experiences, and I learned some things that shed new light on how our experiences shape us and where humanity might be headed. Some of these books helped me better understand what it’s like to grow up outside the mainstream: as a child of mixed race in apartheid South Africa, as a young man trying to escape his impoverished life in rural Appalachia, or as the son of a peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia,” Gates wrote.
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The five books are as follows: Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah; The Heart, by Maylis de Kerangal; Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance; Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari; and A Full Life, by Jimmy Carter.
“I hope you’ll find that others make you think deeper about what it means to truly connect with other people and to have purpose in your life. And all of them will transport you somewhere else—whether you’re sitting on a beach towel or on your own couch,” Gates concluded.
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