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 Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner · 2012 · History
Recommended via Book Club, November 2015
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley · 2010 · Economics
Recommended via Book Club, September 2015
Portfolios of the Poor
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven · 2009 · Economics
Recommended via Book Club, September 2015
The Varieties of Religious Experience
A Study in Human Nature
by William James · 1902 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club, August 2015
The Muqaddimah
An Introduction to History
by Ibn Khaldun · 1377 · History
Recommended via Book Club, June 2015
Orwell’s Revenge
The 1984 Palimpsest
by Peter W. Huber · 1994 · Fiction
Recommended via Book Club, April 2015
Rational Ritual
Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
by Michael Suk-Young Chwe · 2001 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club, March 2015
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
by Moisés Naím · 2013 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book Club, January 2015
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