Nicolas Carreau, edited by Romain Rouillard 2:34 p.m., June 12, 2022
In the United States, famous personalities regularly give their reading list.
Former President Barack Obama has often lent himself to the exercise, as has television host and producer Oprah Winfrey.
This time, it's the turn of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, to play the game.
One would have thought that Bill Gates would take a little rest during the summer period, getting some fresh air and getting away from it all.
But it is nothing.
The billionaire, founder of Microsoft, favors fiction and essays dealing with serious subjects.
Like the book
Le Pouvoir
, for example, by Naomi Alderman.
A novel, advised by his eldest daughter, which imagines a world where women can inflict extreme pain and even kill with a single wave of their hand.
They become the stronger sex.
A pretext of fiction to be interested in the differences of sex.
Two essays by Ezra Klein and Vaclav Smil
Another novel chosen by Bill Gates,
The Lincoln Highway
, planned for the start of the school year in France, signed Amor Twoles and which plunges us into the heart of a road trip in America in the 1950s. Bill Gates also confides that he discovered a novel by anticipation during his conferences on climate change, in this case
The ministry for the future,
the ministry for the future, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
A work not translated to date.
The billionaire also recommends two essays, the first entitled
Why we're polarized
, why are we polarized, by Ezra Klein, on the polarization of opinions, and the second
How the world really works
, how the world really works, signed Vaclav Smil, one of his favorite authors.
"It's a tour de force", notes Bill Gates, in French in the text.