The world’s most influential people still make time for a good book.
Earlier this year, Facebook asked 62 such people — from Arianna Huffington to Richard Branson to Newt Gingrich — for the books they’d recommend. More than 230 titles came Facebook’s way.
After some careful tallying, the social-media site narrowed down the most recommended books to a list of just 11 titles.
We can’t guarantee they’ll bring you the same level of success, but they’ll move you in the right direction.
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"Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem historian, traces humanity’s roots in what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls "a big history narrative of human civilization."
Zuckerberg selected "Sapiens" as one of the titles for his book club in 2015.
The book examines our early hunter-gatherer societies all the way through our modern conception of community, which often lives inside a screen.
"Freakonomics" by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Published in the summer of 2009, "Freakonomics" is the duo’s first dive into bewildering social and economic trends.
In plain language, Dubner and Levitt break down complex topics on parenting research, death rates, and crime. They challenge conventional wisdom with compelling, if eyebrow-raising, examples to back up their claims.
"Freakonomics" helped spawn a genre of publishing that takes advanced concepts and distills them for a lay audience, usually with a sideways perspective.
"Originals" by Adam Grant
Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other pioneers all have a number of things in common, argues Grant, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist.
In "Originals," Grant takes the reader from an idea’s inception, through its (inevitable) backlash, and all the way to implementation and acceptance by a wider audience. He reveals how novel ideas are formed, how to advocate for those ideas, and how adults and kids alike can learn to be original.
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