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Shane Parrish writes Farnam Street

Bill Gates, long an avid reader, attended the TED conference again this year and continued his tradition of recommending books to fellow attendees.

1. Business Adventures, by John Brooks

2. The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

3. On Immunity, by Eula Biss

4. Making the Modern World, by Vaclav Smil

5. How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell

6. How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff

This article originally appeared on Farnam Street.

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