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Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?

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  1. The power of the mind 1 mention

    Josef Morphy

    The power of the mind — Josef Morphy: 1 mentions, rank 1
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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 13 Arts and letters 28 Politics and public life 9 Business and finance 19 Technology 8 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 3 In their thirties 7 In their forties 10 In their fifties 21 In their sixties 14 Seventy and beyond 8
Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
I read Stephen 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 I wanted other people to read it, love it, and hopefully learn from it the way I did. It's probably my favorite book and the one I recommend most often.
Recorded TIME interview, 2017 source ↗

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