Bill Gates Reading List: Inventor, Philanthropist Names What He'll Be Reading This Summer

Bill Gates Names Summer Reading List
Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., listens during the 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The summit puts forward solutions for bipartisan agreement to address America's long-term debt and deficits. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., listens during the 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The summit puts forward solutions for bipartisan agreement to address America's long-term debt and deficits. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bill Gates has shared his reading lists before, and this summer he has named some interesting non-fiction (and one fiction) books that he plans on reading. He posted the list last week on his blog.

Here are the titles, plus a couple of lines from his blogpost about each. Click here to read more.

Check out Bill's book pile:

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? By Jared Diamond

Bill Gates's Summer Reading List 2013

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