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    Why I love books—and which ones you’ll enjoy

    by Bill Gates/Seattle May 27, 2017 3 minutes

    Several times a year, Bill Gates releases favorite recent reads, including a summer recommendation list for fellow passionate readers. Gates spoke to TIME about his new list—shared on these pages—his voracious appetite for the written word and the books that have influenced his life and mind.

    What book do you most often recommend? Who is your most trusted book recommender? I read Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature a few years ago and got to talk to him about it after, which was a lot of fun. I reviewed it for my blog, Gates Notes, because

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