Bill Gates recommends these five books: “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins, “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson, “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro, “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell, and “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir. 5. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKR by John Doerr. According to Bill Gates, this is another remarkable book on business. This book is about how a management system, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), works. How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight. Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on Recommended by Bill Gates. This 1974 title is “the best guide to getting out of your own way,” according to Gates, who, in a recent post on his blog GatesNotes, said that he’s read this book Bill Gates. Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates released his annual summer book list on Monday. The underlying theme is “upheaval,” he writes on his blog, Gates Notes, “whether it’s the A couple months ago I even let myself goof off by reading a murder mystery! I doubt my younger self would approve, but it’s fun and educational to branch out. Bill Gates finds an old email with a list of science books he recommends including Weather for Dummies, The Atmosphere, Physical Geology, and Planet Earth. 4. The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In his AMA, Gates says he's just finished this book by a First Amendment expert and social psychologist about the Bill Gates reveals his 5 favorite books of 2020. Quispe López. Courtesy of the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and one of the wealthiest people in the world, shared his top 2t9Vb.