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What Bill Gates thinks you should be reading this summer

Dina RickmanMay 20, 2015 Bill Gates's much-anticipated summer reading list is here - and it's a deliberately lighter than his 2014 list, which recommending a biography of Theodore Roosevelt and an examination of the US healthcare system by one of the architects of Obamacare.

1 On Immunity by Eula Biss

Biss, an essayist and university lecturer, examines what lies behind people’s fears of vaccinating their children.

2 Should We Eat Meat by Vaclav Smil

A timely book, though probably the least beach-friendly one on this list.

3 How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff

It was first published in 1954, but aside from a few anachronistic examples (it has been a long time since bread cost 5 cents a loaf in the United States), it doesn’t feel dated.

4 Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud.

5 What If by Randall Munroe

It's a very clever way of getting to think about various scientific things going on. This idea of when you see a glass half-empty do you mean empty as in 'perfect vacuum?'

6 The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins

I consider him to be one of the great scientific writer/explainers of all time.

7 XKCD by Randall Munroe

A collection of posts from Munroe’s blog XKCD, which is made up of cartoons he draws making fun of things More: Beach Reading (and More)Keep reading...Show less

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