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  1. Mark Zuckerberg book club. Mark Zuckerberg book club (aka A Year of Books) was an online book club hosted by Mark Zuckerberg through his personal Facebook account started in January 2015. [1] Zuckerberg made a book recommendation every two weeks for a year to his millions of Facebook followers. [2] [3]

  2. In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg did something slightly unusual for a CEO of a major technology company: He started a book club! In that year, Zuckerberg ended up recommending and discussing 23 books with the group — about one every two weeks. We found it a great list of interesting reads. Let’s check it out. *** Creativity, Inc.

    • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
    • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
    • The Rational Optimist by Mark Ridley
    • Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
    • The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
    • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

    The New Jim Crow covers the criminal justice system in America, and how African Americans are marginalized through mass incarceration. Alexander, a civil rights litigator herself, covers everything from how the Reagan administration started the War on Drugs to how people can work to dismantle their own prejudices. “I’ve been interested in learning ...

    Ever wonder why some countries seem to be stuck in a state of poverty no matter what, while others grow and develop? This book covers 15 years of research from Daron Acemoglu, an MIT professor and one of the world’s top economists, and James A. Robinson, a political scientist and Harvard professor. The authors argue that a country’s wealth is based...

    After reading Why Nations Fail, Zuckerberg announced in his book club that he wanted to read The Rational Optimist because it argues many opposing theories on what affects economic progress. “I’m interested to see which idea resonates more after exploring both frameworks,” he said. Bestselling author, Mark Ridley, argues trading goods and services ...

    Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar and he was the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. In Creativity Inc., he shares his own journey into management, stories from the companies, and how creativity is at the center of great teams. There’s plenty of actionable tips for how to boost creativity and productivity at work—everything from how swi...

    The Muqaddimah was written in 1377 by Islamic historian, Ibn Khaldun. It covers what was understood then about history and science. It dives into everything from Islamic theology to the rise and fall of civilizations, from how food was thought to affect our bodies to the negative impacts of urbanization. The Muqaddimahtranslates as “The Introductio...

    Zuckerberg is big on reading books that cover different viewpoints, so once he’d read Muqaddimah, he moved onto Sapiens by bestselling author, Yuval Noah Harari. “Following the Muqaddimah, which was a history from the perspective of an intellectual in the 1300s, Sapiens is a contemporary exploration of many similar questions,” he wrote on Facebook....

    • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari.
    • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull.
    • The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be Moisés Naím.
    • World Order Henry Kissinger.
  3. Jan 5, 2015 · A book club started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has already had almost 140,000 "likes". The billionaire social network founder has set up the Facebook group "A Year of Book",, external ...

  4. Feb 17, 2016 · Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a single mission: to connect people around the world. It's one reason why he decided to launch a Facebook-based book club last year, with a reading list that ...

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  6. Dec 25, 2019 · Over the past year, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has been sharing his choices of reading with the world in a Facebook-based book club. The books Zuckerberg has shared focused on “different cultures, beliefs, histories, and technologies.” The book club, titled “A Year of Books reading group,” ended up with 23 different selections.

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