“There are books here about gender equality, political polarization, climate change, and the hard truth that life never goes the way young people think it will.”
“But none of the five books below feel heavy,” Gates continued. “Each of the writers—three novelists, a journalist, and a scientist—was able to take a meaty subject and make it compelling without sacrificing any complexity.”
- The power by Naomi Alderman
- Why we are polarized by Ezra Klein
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- How the world really works by Vaclav Smil
