Gates Notes
Bill Gates' Summer and Holiday Books 2013
Gates Notes' Bill Gates' Summer and Holiday Books 2013 names 19 books across 2 categories. 1 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Holiday Books
- Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Naturesource (opens in a new tab)
- Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about Itsource (opens in a new tab)
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everythingsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Futuresource (opens in a new tab)
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Biggersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Inventionsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Futuresource (opens in a new tab)
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don'tsource (opens in a new tab)
- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?source (opens in a new tab)
- Why Does College Cost So Much?source (opens in a new tab)
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Povertysource (opens in a new tab)
Summer Books
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Charactersource (opens in a new tab)
- However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girlssource (opens in a new tab)
- Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impactssource (opens in a new tab)
- Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Patriot and Assassinsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Biggersource (opens in a new tab)
- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?source (opens in a new tab)
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Dosource (opens in a new tab)
About the Bill Gates' Summer and Holiday Books
Bill Gates' summer reading lists (category Summer Books, posted May-September) and holiday or year-end lists (category Holiday Books, posted November-January) on gatesnotes.com, 2012-2025. Year is the date of the post. Each list holds the books the post lists as its picks, including honorable mentions (2015, 2016) and bonus picks (2024 Federer); books named only in passing, and the 2020 'other books worth reading' extras, are left out. TV shows, songs and courses are skipped. 2012 has two summer posts (Great summer reading in July, Books I read this Summer in September) and 2013 two holiday posts (A year-end reading list in January, The best books I read in 2013 in December); each 2012-2013 expected count adds both posts, counting a book on both once (The Most Powerful Idea in the World, 2013). The 2012 and 2013 summer posts include books Gates said he planned to read. The 2023 summer list has two books and the 2023 holiday list three. Read from gatesnotes.com with a browser; the site blocks plain HTTP clients.
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