Get Ready for 2025 with the 5 Books Recommended by Billionaire Bill Gates and End 2024 on a High Note

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From Artificial Intelligence to Moving Stories, Discover Works That Can Transform Your Year-End and Kickstart 2025

Bill Gates, besides being a visionary in technology, is also an avid reader who periodically shares his literary journals. For 2024, he selected five books covering diverse themes, such as touching biographies, engineering, artificial intelligence, and sports, promising to inspire and broaden horizons, according to Hardware. Check out below the recommendations from former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and start 2025 on the right foot!

“A Unfinished Love Story” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Beginning Bill Gates’s recommendations for 2025, this autobiographical account by Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles the life alongside her late husband, a renowned political speechwriter. Combining personal memory and political history, the work is an invitation to reflect on human connections and the legacy we leave behind.

“The Anxious Generation” – Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt analyzes how hyperconnectivity and excessive social media use are affecting the mental health of younger generations. In addition to identifying the problems, the author offers practical solutions for tackling these modern challenges.

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“Engineering in Plain Sight” – Grady Hillhouse

Bill Gates’s third recommendation is from Grady Hillhouse, who uncovers the secrets of civil engineering in an accessible and engaging language. He explains how everyday structures, such as bridges and water systems, are fundamental to modern life.

“The Next Wave” – Mustafa Suleyman

In this book, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, explores the challenges and opportunities brought by artificial intelligence. He emphasizes the need for balance between technological progress and social responsibility.

“Federer” – Doris Henkel

For sports fans, this biography of the legendary Roger Federer combines exclusive images and captivating narratives, celebrating the journey of one of the greatest tennis players in history, be sure to include it in your 2025 reading list!

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Get Ready for 2025 with the 5 Books Recommended by Billionaire Bill Gates and End 2024 on a High Note

From Artificial Intelligence to Moving Stories, Discover Works That Can Transform Your Year-End and Kickstart 2025

“A Unfinished Love Story” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The Anxious Generation” – Jonathan Haidt

“Engineering in Plain Sight” – Grady Hillhouse

“The Next Wave” – Mustafa Suleyman

“Federer” – Doris Henkel

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From Artificial Intelligence to Moving Stories, Discover Works That Can Transform Your Year-End and Kickstart 2025

“A Unfinished Love Story” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The Anxious Generation” – Jonathan Haidt

“Engineering in Plain Sight” – Grady Hillhouse

“The Next Wave” – Mustafa Suleyman

“Federer” – Doris Henkel

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

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