“You don’t really start getting old until you stop learning. Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently. I was lucky to have parents who encouraged me to read. Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career and in the work that I do now with my foundation.”

Every summer, the multi-billionaire releases the top books on his reading list. He believes everyone should read these books because they had an incredible impact on his journey to success. Interestingly, this list includes some fictional reads and memoirs but one thing all these books have in common is that they cover many vital aspects of life.

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Here are 20 books Bill Gates thinks everyone should read

1. Life is What You Make It by Peter Buffett

2. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

3. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

4. “Tap Dancing to Work” by Carol Loomis

5. “Making the Modern World” by Vaclav Smil

6. “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert

7. “The Man Who Fed the World” by Leon Hesser

8. ‘The Rosie Project: A Novel’ by Graeme Simsion

9. “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street,” John Brooks

11. “How to Lie With Statistics” by Darrell Huff

12. “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” Yuval Noah Harari

13. ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell

14. ‘The Box’ by Marc Levinson

15. “How Not to Be Wrong” by Jordan Ellenberg

16. Upheaval by Jared Diamond

17. 9 Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George

18. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

19.The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier

20. Presidents of War: The Epic Story, From 1807 to Modern Timesby Michael Beschloss