📖Bill Gates's 2025 holiday book list

posted to Gatesnotes, out every winter. five books, his own words on each (sourced)

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Clearing the Air (Hannah Ritchie)

he called it one of the clearest explanations of the climate problem he's read

Who Knew - Barry Diller

Diller's memoir. Gates has known him for decades and said it still surprised him

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, Steven Pinker

Abundance (Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson)

why America can't seem to build things anymore. he has said this twice this year, must be stuck on it

Related lists