Facebook co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is a staunch believer in continuous self-development.
This much is expressed in his New Year resolution to learn his wife’s language Mandarin and commitment to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine that will help him with home chores and office work.
More importantly, the 31-year-old founded a reading club on Facebook in which he promised to read at least a book every two weeks.
While he couldn’t accomplish the projected goal because of the birth of his daughter, Max, he has since compiled the list of 23 books he feels everyone should read.
These titles focus on different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies.
Here is the list of the books…
- ‘The Muqaddimah’ by Ibn Khaldun
- ‘The New Jim Crow’ by Michelle Alexander
- ‘Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- ‘The Rational Optimist’ by Matt Ridley
- ‘Portfolios of the Poor’ by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
- ‘World Order’ by Henry Kissinger
- ‘The Varieties of Religious Experience’ by William James
- ‘Creativity, Inc.’ by Ed Catmull
- ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari
- ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ by Thomas S. Kuhn
- ‘Dealing with China’ by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
- ‘The Beginning of Infinity’ by David Deutsch
- ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’ by Steven Pinker
- ‘Genome’ by Matt Ridley
- ‘The End of Power’ by Moisés Naím
- ‘On Immunity’ by Eula Biss
- ‘The Idea Factory’ by Jon Gertner
- ‘The Three-Body Problem’ by Cixin Liu
- ‘Gang Leader for a Day’ by Sudhir Venkatesh
- ‘The Player of Games’ by Iain M. Banks
- ‘Orwell’s Revenge’ by Peter Huber
- ‘Energy: A Beginner’s Guide’ by Vaclav Smil
- ‘Rational Ritual’ by Michael Suk-Young Chwe