Here is Bill Gates' General Reading List, and here is his list for science and innovation
In addition to the books posted, below is list of books and magazines I’ve found helpful. If you’ve found any to be useful to you, let me know. : )
Online Courses
A History of the World Since 1300 (from Princeton, on Coursera.org)
English Books
The Power of Habit
By Charles Duhigg
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
By Ezra Vogel
The Better Angels of Our Nature
By Steven Pinker
A History of Modern Computing
By Paul E. Ceruzzi
(For those short on time or want a less technical account, there is Computing: A Concise History)
How We Got to Now
By Steven Johnson
Tuesdays with Morrie
By Mitch Albom
Spare Parts
By Joshua Davis
Walden on Wheels
By Ken Ilgunas
The Promise of a Pencil
By Adam Braun
Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson
John A.: The Man Who Made Us
The Life and Times of John A. MacDonald
By Richard Gwyn
The Google Story
By David A. Vise
Beyond the Internet
By Larry Smith
Moonwalking with Einstein
By Joshua Foer
The Spark
By Kristine Barnett
The Perfume (Fiction)
Patrick Suskind
The HP Way
By David Packard
A History of the World
By Andrew Marr
The Information
By James Gleick
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
By Benjamin Elman
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
By Cal Newport
The Shallows
By Nicholas Carr
Pride and Prejudice (fiction)
By Jane Austen
The Dream
By Gurbaksh Chahal
Talent is Overrated
By Geoff Colvin
Delivering Happiness
By Tony Hsieh
Free the Children
By Craig Kielburger
Now, Discover Your Strengths
By Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.
Civilization
By Niall Ferguson
Why Nations Fail
By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Good to Great
By Jim Collins
The Big Switch
By Nicholas Carr
The World is Flat
By Thomas L. Friedman
Turing’s Cathedral
By George Dyson
The Happiness Advantage
By Shawn Achor
The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference
By Theodore Rockwell
Shift: Inside Nissan’s Historic Revival
By Carlos Ghosn
David and Goliath
By Malcolm Gladwell
The Facebook Effect
By David Kirkpatrick
The Second Machine Age
By Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee
Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy
By Isadore Sharp
Getting Organized in the Google Era
By Douglas C. Merrill
Getting Things Done
By David Allen
The Age of Turbulence
By Alan Greenspan
Where Good Ideas Come From
By Steven Johnson
Outliers
By Malcolm Gladwell
The Element
By Ken Robinson, Ph.D.
Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit
By Chester Dawson
The Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch
Rework
By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
By James Wallace and Jim Erickson
English Magazines
The Economist
Bloomberg Business Week
Fortune
Chinese Books (中文書)
知識人與中國文化的價值
余英時 著
親愛的安德烈
龍應台 安德烈 合著
大江大海 1949
龍應台 著
日產的文藝復興
卡洛斯‧戈恩 自傳
OFF學
大前研一 著
核能潛鑑之父李高佛
迪奧多‧洛克威爾 著
放任心中的一百次流浪
劉軒 著
7-Eleven經商之道
鈴木敏文 口述
王永慶奮鬥傳奇
郭泰 著
五體不滿足完全版
乙武洋匡 著
我是黎智英
黎智英 著
最尖端武器: 核子潛水艇
讀貴新聞社 著
超越自己
劉墉 著
現代寓言
杏林子 著
我的人生從廁所開始
白倉正子 著
俠風長流
杏林子 著
肯定自己
劉墉 著
新 知識生產術
勝間和代 著
高速鐵路新時代
蘇昭旭 著
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