The Microsoft co-founder and one of the world’s richest men lists his favorite reads of the year. Note: Not all of them came out in 2013.
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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates spends a lot of time reading books, and an almost equal amount of time writing reviews of the books he's read. For acolytes, his reading habits provide a glimpse into both his personal life and how he conducts business.
"I read mostly nonfiction because I always want to learn more about how the world works," Gates writes in an essay to be published on his personal website tomorrow discussing his picks. "And reading is how I learn best. Each of the books on the list... taught me something I didn't know."
BuzzFeed got a sneak peek at Gates' top picks from among the many books he's read this year, along with his reasoning behind the picks:
The Box, by Marc Levinson
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The book:The Box basically chronicles the beginning of the shipping container, and how it helped spark the growth of the global trade industry.
Gates says: "You might think you don't want to read a whole book about shipping containers... But he makes a good case that the move to containerized shipping had an enormous impact on the global economy and changed the way the world does business. And he turns it into a very readable narrative. I won't look at a cargo ship in quite the same way again."
