What 17 successful people read before bed

Bill Gates Foundation Bill Gates.The moments before sleep can provide a rare retreat from a jam-packed day for highly successful people.

For many CEOs, execs, and other high achievers, the day begins extremely early and is crammed with emails, meetings, and events. But the evenings can be a time to unwind with a good book. Or a magazine. Or newspaper. Some of them even curl up with their email.

From paperbacks to tweets, here's what 17 super successful people read before calling it a night.

Alison Griswold contributed to a previous version of this article.