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The 14 books Mark Zuckerberg thinks you should have read this year already

The 14 books Mark Zuckerberg thinks you should have read this year already

Mark Zuckerberg has a reputation for dramatic new year's resolutions, and 2015 was no different: the CEO of Facebook tasked himself with reading a new book every two weeks for the whole year.

At the end of 2014 he asked the Facebook community for recommendations and has been blogging about what he's learned about new cultures, histories and technologies on A Year of Books. So far this year he's on target with 14 down.

If you want some holiday reading this summer, try catching up:

1.The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun

2. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

3. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

4. The End of Power by Moisés Naím

5. Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

6. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

7.The Player of Games by Iain M Banks

8. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

9. Orwell's Revenge by Peter Huber

10. Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil

11. Dealing with China by Henry M Paulson, Jr

12. Rational Ritual by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

13. On Immunity by Eula Bis

14. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn

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