Reading List
Mark Zuckerberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Meta · Meta
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 and built it into Meta, one of the largest technology companies in the world. In 2015 he set himself a personal challenge to read a new book every two weeks and share it publicly, launching a book club called A Year of Books. Over that year he recommended works spanning history, science, economics, and social justice, turning his reading list into one of the most closely watched in the world.
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander · 2012 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club, February 2015
Dealing with China
An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
by Henry M. Paulson Jr. · 2016 · Economics
Recommended via Book Club
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch · 2012 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh · 2008 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn · 2012 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 2012 · History
Recommended via Book Club, January 2015
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · 2013 · Economics
Recommended via Book Club
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 2014 · Business
Recommended via Book Club, September 2015
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari · 2015 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club, May 2015