Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sheryl Sandberg and more of Silicon Valley's tech titans reveal their favorite books for summer reading

Philanthropist Melinda Gates writes about the importance of empowering women, and how that action can change the world.

When a young Stanford neurosurgeon is diagnosed with lung cancer, he sets out to write a memoir about mortality, memory, family, medicine, literature, philosophy, and religion. It's a tear-jerker, with an epilogue written by his wife Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, who survives him, along with their young daughter.

A memoir by the creator of Nike, Phil Knight.

Westover, raised in the mountains of Idaho in a family of survivalists, didn't go to school until she was 17. She would go on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. This memoir chronicles her path towards higher education.

A history of how ancient Rome fell into tyranny.

Written in 2018, Harari addresses technological and political challenges that humans will have to tackle in the 21st century.

Williams, a law professor, writes "Class consciousness has has been replaced by class cluelessness — and in some cases, even class callousness."

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