Bill Gates wants you to read this summer this 5 books

Here are the 5 books Bill Gates wants you to read this summer

Your summer reading list is about to get a lot longer.

That's because Microsoft founder, philanthropist, and avid reader Bill Gates revealed his summer book recommendations in a blog post on Monday — and you're going to want to pore over all of these books during your next vacation.

Gates' recommendations aren't your typical summer books, though. Whether it's a personal memoir or a heartfelt novel about grief, each focuses on understanding the larger world around us. 

"Some of these books helped me better understand what it’s like to grow up outside the mainstream," writes Gates. "As a child of mixed race in apartheid South Africa, as a young man trying to escape his impoverished life in rural Appalachia, or as the son of a peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia." 

He continues, "I hope you’ll find that others make you think deeper about what it means to truly connect with other people and to have purpose in your life. And all of them will transport you somewhere else—whether you’re sitting on a beach towel or on your own couch."

Gates' summer reading list has become an annual tradition, and usually includes a mix of beautifully written fiction and thought-provoking nonfiction. In the past, he's recommended everything from The Gene, an intimate look at DNA, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, to Thing Explainer, which unpacks complex concepts using only very simple words, by "xkcd" creator Randall Munroe.
source:- Mashable