In between board meetings at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—the world’s largest private charity—Bill Gates works to sate his voracious literary appetite. In a memoir reflecting on his first 90 years of life, America’s 39th president offers candid opinions on the moral progress of the global community since World War II. Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. "What de Kerangal has done here in this exploration of grief is closer to poetry than anything else," Gates writes in his review. Not included: the entire set of the World Book Encyclopedia, which Gates read, in alphabetical order, as a youngster.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2017 16:52 UTC