Bill Gates recommends the 5 books you should read at the end of the year

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Are you looking for books you can spend end of year vacations to give to the entrepreneur in your life? You’re lucky because Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shared his now-famous list of this year’s favorite books.

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The philanthropist mentioned on his Gates notes blog that since he was a child, he was obsessed with science fiction as a child, and as he got older, he started reading a lot more non-fiction. “Lately, though, I’ve been attracted to the kind of books I wanted as a kid,” he wrote.

Gates, 66, also posted a video explaining what each book he recommends is about, which includes two science fiction stories, a couple of non-fiction books on cutting-edge science, and a novel.

5 books Bill Gates recommends for the end of the year

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence , by Jeff Hawkins
The story of artificial intelligence from the PalmPilot co-inventor himself, who has spent decades understanding the connection between neuroscience and machine learning.

Codebreaker: Jennifer Doudna, Genre Editing and the Future of Mankind , by Walter Isaacson
This book is about one of the most important scientific advances of the last decade: the CRISPR gene editing system. “Isaacson does a good job of highlighting the most important ethical issues around genre editing,” Gates says.

Klara and the Sun. , by Kazuo Ishiguro
“I love good robot stories, and Ishiguro’s novel about an ‘artificial friend’ of a sick girl is no exception,” explains the billionaire of this novel, which takes place in a dystopian future.

The port by Maggie O’Farrell
This moving story is about how Shakespeare’s personal story influenced the world’s most famous play. Gates says: “O’Farrell has built his story on two facts that we know are true about The Bard: his son Hamnet died at the age of 11, and a few years later Shakespeare wrote a tragedy called Hamlet.”

Project Hi Mary by Andy Weir

Weir broke through his name The Martian , but this latest novel is a crazy story about a high school science teacher who wakes up in a different star system without remembering how he got there.

“The rest of the story is about how he uses science and technology to save the day. It’s a fun read, and I finished it all in one weekend,” recommended Microsoft co-founder.

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