Top 23 Books Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Everyone Should Read

 

Facebook co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is a staunch believer in continuous self-development.

This much is expressed in his New Year resolution to learn his wife’s language Mandarin and commitment to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine that will help him with home chores and office work.

More importantly, the 31-year-old founded a reading club on Facebook in which he promised to read at least a book every two weeks.

While he couldn’t accomplish the projected goal because of the birth of his daughter, Max, he has since compiled the list of 23 books he feels everyone should read.

These titles focus on different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. 

Here is the list of the books…

1. ‘The Muqaddimah’ by Ibn Khaldun
2. ‘The New Jim Crow’ by Michelle Alexander
3. ‘Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
4. ‘The Rational Optimist’ by Matt Ridley
5. ‘Portfolios of the Poor’ by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
6. ‘World Order’ by Henry Kissinger
7. ‘The Varieties of Religious Experience’ by William James
8. ‘Creativity, Inc.’ by Ed Catmull
9. ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari
10. ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ by Thomas S. Kuhn
11. ‘Dealing with China’ by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
12. ‘The Beginning of Infinity’ by David Deutsch
13. ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’ by Steven Pinker
14. ‘Genome’ by Matt Ridley
15. ‘The End of Power’ by Moisés Naím
16. ‘On Immunity’ by Eula Biss
17. ‘The Idea Factory’ by Jon Gertner
18. ‘The Three-Body Problem’ by Cixin Liu
19. ‘Gang Leader for a Day’ by Sudhir Venkatesh
20. ‘The Player of Games’ by Iain M. Banks
21. ‘Orwell’s Revenge’ by Peter Huber
22. ‘Energy: A Beginner’s Guide’ by Vaclav Smil
23. ‘Rational Ritual’ by Michael Suk-Young Chwe