Colder weather and, for many, some time off for the holidays makes winter a perfect time of year to “catch up on reading,” according to billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates.
“There’s something about the quieter days around the holidays that makes it easier to sit down with a good book,” Gates wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday that includes his latest annual list of holiday season book recommendations.
Gates’ list of “recent favorites” includes a wide variety of authors and genres, from a book by a Harvard psychologist that dissects the concept of “common knowledge” to a fictional work about an aging night janitor in an aquarium. The list also features a media mogul’s recent memoir, a book that Gates calls a “hopeful, fact-driven overview” of the current climate crisis, and a nonfiction political bestseller about government regulations and American innovation.
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“Each of these books pulls back the curtain on how something important really works: how people find purpose later in life, how we should think about climate change, how creative industries evolve, how humans communicate, and how America lost its capacity to build big things — and how to get it back,” wrote Gates.
