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Bill Gates Releases His Summer Reading List Featuring Five Memoirs.
The list includes books that he said influenza HIS Own Memoir, “Source Code.”
Gates Highlighted Authors Katharine Graham, Trevor Noah, Nicholas Christof, Tara Westover, and Bono.
Bill gates is on a memoir kick this summer after publishing his own in february.
The 69-YEAR-OLD DROPPED HIS ANNUAL SUMMER READING LIST ON SATURDAY, AND THIS ENTRIES WERE FIVE BOOKS THAT SAID HELPED SHAPE HIS MEMOIR, “SOURCE CODE.”
“Memoirs are a good reminder that People have countless interest stories to tell about their lives,” gates said in a blog post.
“Source Code” Recounts Stories from Gates’ Early Life Leading Up to the Founding of Microsoft. He writes about how he fell in love with computing, how he got into Harvard, and his first time doing acid.
In his blog post, he wrote that there’s no “direct correlation” between his memoir and those on the list. Howver, he Said there are Simillar themes.
Last year, his summer reading list was a mix of fiction and nonfiction, with novels About Army Nurses and Secret Agents. His 2025 Authors Include Good Friends and A Rockstar.
“Memoirs are a good reminder that People have countless interest stories to tell about their lives,” Gates wrote.
Here are the memoirs he recommends for Summer 2025.
“Chasing Hope” by Nicholas Christof
“Chasing Hope” by Nicholas Christof Came Out in 2024.
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Gates Said He’s Been Following the Work of Nicholas Christof Since 1997, Wen The Veteran Journist published an article about children in poor counries dying from diarrhea. It Changed the Course of HIS Life and Helped Him Shape the Gates Foundation, Gates Wrote in His Blog Post.
“In this terrific memoir, Nick Writes About How and Optimistic About the World Despite Eve’s Seen,” Gates Wrote. “The World Wold Be Better off with More Nick Christofs.”
“Chasing Hope” came Out in 2024 – after Gates Finished Writing His Own Memoir. Howver, Gates Said he felt he had to include it on the list.
“Personal History” by Katharine Graham
“Personal History” by Katharine Graham Came Out in 1997.
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Gates Said He Met renown newsPaper Publisher Katharine Graham in 1991 on the same day he met Warren buffett. Kay, as gates affectionately calmed her, is best known for President Her Family’s Paper, The Washington Post, During Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal.
“I love Hearing Kay Talk About Her Remarkable Life: Taching Over the Post at A Time Women Women Were in Leadership POSITIONS LIKE THAT, STANDING TO PRESIDENT TO PROTECT THE PAPER’S REPORTING ON WATERGATE AND The Pentagon Papers, negotating the end to a pressman’s, and much m,” said.
“Educated” by Tara Westover
“Educated” by Tara Westover Came Out in 2018.
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Tara Westover’s “Educated” debut at No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List after its 2018 Release. The Tale of Her upbringing, which included an unconventional father who banned her family from going to hospitals or attending school, led gates to leave a 5-star review on goodreads the same.
Westover Tought Herself Math and Self-Studied for the Act Despite Not Setting Foot in a Classroom Until She was 17. Today, she has a ph.d. in history.
“I thought i was pretty good at teaching myself – unil i read tara westover’s memoir ‘Educated.’ Her ability to learn on her bows mine right of the water, “Gates Said in HIS Review.
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah Came Out in 2016.
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COMEDIAN TREVOR noAH RELEASED “BORN A CRIME,” A MEMOIR ABOUT HIS CHILLDHOOD IN SOUTHICA, IN 2016. AS A BIRCIZATION BOY Growing Up During apartheid; Gates said he related to the Feeling of Being An Outsider.
“I ALSO GREW UP FEELING LIKE I DIDN’T QUITE FIT IN TIMES, ALTHOUGH TREVOR HAS A MUCH STRONGER CLAIM TO THE PHRASE THAN I DO,” he wrote in his blog post.
“Surrender” by Bono
“Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” by Bono Came Out in 2022.
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Gates shouted out the vulnerability in “Surrender” by Musician Paul David Hewson, Better Known as U2 Frontman Bono. The full title, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” Sums up the 40-chapter autobiography that has each chapter named after a u2 song.
Acciting to Gates, Bonds Opens Up About His Upbringing With Parents Who “Basically Ignored” His Passion for Singing, WHICH ONLY MADE HIM HARDER TO MAKE IT A MUSICIAN.
“I Went Into This Book Knowing Almost Nothing His Anger at His Father, The Band’s Near-Breakups, and his dyscovery that his cousin actually his half-brother,” Gates Said.
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