Premium books Bill Gates recommends? A Separate Peace by John Knowles: The story is based in a boys’ boarding school, the elite Devon School where the protagonists Gene and Finny studied in. World War II was raging and tearing apart lives at that time. They were roommates. Finny was a charismatic young lad who could easily get away with any mischief whereas, on the other hand, Gene was an introvert. With time, they became good friends but something happened that summer which not only broke their friendship but also killed their innocence forever. A story inspired by the real-life experiences of Knowles, A Separate Peace explores the dark side of adolescence and will leave a lasting impact on all the readers. See additional details at Bill Gates recommendation books.
Drawn nearer by IBM in 1980 to foster a 16-bit working framework for its new PC, Gates alluded the PC monsters to Gary Kildall of Digital Research Inc. In any case, Kildall was out flying his plane when the IBM reps appeared, and his significant other and colleague, Dorothy, scoffed at consenting to a non-divulgence arrangement. Understanding that a chance was getting endlessly, Gates rented a comparative working framework from another organization and repackaged it as DOS for IBM. The advancement made it ready for Microsoft to turn into the prevailing name in PC working frameworks through MS-DOS and afterwards Windows, and aided its leader become a very rich person by age 31.
My Years with General Motors” was published in 1963 and straight after that it became a bestseller and one of the books to read for every businessman. Not only this is the story of one of the world´s leading company in the automobile industry, but also it can be used as a manual for future business tycoons as it contains the unique experience of a leader who led the company to the prosperity. During reddit’s AMA Bill Gates said that “Better Angels of Our Nature” is his “favorite book of the last decade”. He added that “it is long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time”.
Bill Gates’ early life could easily be turned into a series, starting from his childhood home in Seattle and leading up to his success story. As a kid, he got bullied a lot, but that didn’t stop him from aiming high. His plans didn’t always coincide with those of his parents, though. Bill Gates’s family wanted to send him to law school, which would fit perfectly in the family history—his father was a lawyer. Bill Gates started writing software as a kid. Even before he graduated high school, it was obvious he wasn’t like the other children. At the age of 13, he made a version of tic-tac-toe on a General Electric computer. As a comparison, at the age of 13, I had just found out that ripped jeans are ripped on purpose. What were you doing at 13?
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles: Gates admits he reads a lot more nonfiction than fiction, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t profoundly moved by a novel now and again. In fact, he includes three on his best books ever list. In his 2019 review of this one about a Russian count sentenced to 30 years of house arrest in a hotel by the Bolsheviks, he confesses the novel brought him to tears. “A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything. There’s fantastical romance, politics, espionage, parenthood, and poetry,” he writes, suggesting it not just for students of Russian history but for everyone who likes a great story well told. Find more details at snapreads.com.