Bill Gates Recommended Reading: Books On Education, Energy etc

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, is technology’s richest man. Below is a categorized list of his favorite books on each topic:

Education:

• Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis?
• Global Health: An Introductory Textbook
• The Tobacco Atlas
• Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User’s Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care
• Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR
• Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History
• Priorities in Health
• The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
• Polio: An American Story (Book Review)
• Jim Grant – UNICEF Visionary (Book Review)
• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
• House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Smallpox the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
• Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice 
• Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver

Personal:

• For the Love of Physics (Book Review)
• That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back (Book Review)
• The Computer and the Brain
• 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
• Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes
• The Hair of the Dog – and other Scientific Surprises
• Post-Capitalist Society
• On Intelligence
• How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• What Does China Think?
• Giving it all Away: The Doris Buffett Story
• Frank Stewart’s Bridge Club
• Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (Book Review)
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Book Review)
• The New Science of Strong Materials (Book Review)
• A Champion’s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
• Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Weather for Dummies
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
• 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
• Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
• A Guide to the Elements
• Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
• Wheels, Clocks and Rockets: A History of Technology
• Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization
• The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
• A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
• The Post-American World
• In Fed We Trust (Book Review)
• SuperFreakonomics (Book Review)
• A Separate Peace
• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
• Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
• Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
• Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results
• Open: An Autobiography
• Physics for Dummies
• Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
• Showing Up for Life
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, And Heat
• The Feynman Lectures On Physics, The Definitive Edition Volume 2
• The Feynman Lectures On Physics, The Definitive Edition Volume 3
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves