Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg started his book club back in Jan, setting out to read a book every two weeks and inviting others to do the same. This week he revealed the club's latest title while admitting that his initial goal may have been a lofty one.
Zuckerberg announced his plans via Facebook on Jan 3, laying out his plans to read a new book every two weeks "with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies."
The first book of the year: The End of Power by Moisés Naím, about how recent developments have taken power away from large organisations and put it in the hands of individuals.
As the project has rolled out, Zuckerberg's Facebook page for A Year in Books has hosted Q&As with Naím, Hank Paulson, Michael Chwe, Eula Biss and Steven Pinker and presented mainly titles falling into the social sciences.
As June ticked over into July, the 13th title was revealed as the science fiction novel The Player of Games by the late Scottish writer Iain Banks.
This book pick came with an announcement of its own, in which Zuckerberg admitted, "my pile of books to read is growing faster than I can get through it while running a large company."
So, what might that pile of books contain? Here is the full list of titles so far:
The End of Power by Moisés Naím
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
On Immunity by Eula Biss
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Rational Ritual by Michael Chwe
Dealing with China by Hank Paulson
Orwell's Revenge by Peter W. Huber
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
The Player of Games by Iain Banks
— AFP Relaxnews
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