Mark Zuckerberg book club

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Mark Zuckerberg book club (a.k.a. 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]

Zuckerberg came up with the idea as part of his New Year's Resolution for 2015 after Cynthia Greco, the Audience Development Manager for MediaOnePA/York Newspaper Company, suggested that Zuckerberg read a new book every month.[4] Zuckerberg modified the idea to one book every two weeks and books which "emphasize learning about new cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies."[1]

# Date Author Title Citation
1 January 2, 2015 Moisés Naím The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be [5]
2 January 18, 2015 Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined [5]
3 February 2, 2015 Sudhir Venkatesh Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets [2]
4 February 18, 2015 Eula Biss On Immunity: An Inoculation [6]
5 March 3, 2015 Ed Catmull Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration [7]
6 March 17, 2015 Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [8][9]
7 March 31, 2015 Michael Chwe Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge [10][11]
8 April 15, 2015 Hank Paulson Dealing With China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower [12]
9 April 28, 2015 Peter W. Huber Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest [13]
10 May 14, 2015 Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [14]
11 June 1, 2015 Ibn Khaldun Muqaddimah [15]
12 June 15, 2015 Yuval Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind [16]
13 June 29, 2015 Iain Banks The Player of Games [17]
14 July 14, 2015 Vaclav Smil Energy: A Beginner's Guide [18]
15 July 28, 2015 Matt Ridley Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters [19]
16 August 12, 2015 William James The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature [20]
17 September 1, 2015 Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day [21]
18 September 16, 2015 Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty [22]
19 September 29, 2015 Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves [23]
20 October 21, 2015 Liu Cixin The Three-Body Problem [24]
21 November 9, 2015 Jon Gertner The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation [25]
22 December 10, 2015 Henry Kissinger World Order [26]
23 December 28, 2015 David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World [27]

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