ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-favorite-books-2014-10?op=1
- 'Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012' by Carol Loomis
- 'Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises' by Tim Geithner
- 'Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street' by John Brooks
- 'Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization' by Vaclav Smil
- 'The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History' by Elizabeth Kolbert
- 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined' by Steven Pinker
- 'The Man Who Fed the World' by Leon Hesser
- 'The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism' by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 'The Rosie Project: A Novel' by Graeme Simsion