????即使已經是世界首富了，比爾?蓋茨依舊會經常擠出時間來讀一本好書。

????據《福布斯》雜志披露，比爾?蓋茨的凈資產達到790億美元。他本周公布了自己一年一度的暑期書單。在運營全球最大的慈善機構，并擔任微軟公司技術顧問的間隙，蓋茨近幾年還養成了一個習慣——讓全世界知道他在讀什么書。

????在其私人博客Gates Notes上，他以“海灘閱讀物”為題，列出了今年暑期打算閱讀的7本書。其中包括牛津大學進化生物學家理查德?道金斯所著的《現實的魔法》，以及美國國家圖書獎得主歐拉?比斯所著的《免疫：接種》，其主題正好吻合比爾和梅琳達?蓋茨基金會的致力目標之一——解決兒童疫苗接種問題。

????同時，蓋茨也表示，他今年希望放松一下心情，其博客中寫道：“今年，我想挑選一些更輕松的題材。這些書有的能讓我思考，有的能引我發笑，有的則二者兼具，讓我在笑中思考?！?/p>

????出于這樣的目的，書單中包括一本根據著名漫畫家艾莉?布洛什大受歡迎的博客改編的書——《夸張和一半》，蓋茨形容這本書“幽默并聰明絕頂”。還有一本漫畫書則是《XKCD》，內容摘自前NASA機器人專家蘭德爾?門羅的同名網絡漫畫，包含大量與數學與科學相關的幽默元素。蓋茨寫道：“這種幽默，不見得所有人都喜歡，但我喜歡?！?/p>

????蓋茨為今年暑期推薦的其他圖書包括：門羅的另一本書《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題》；史上最暢銷的統計學著作——達雷爾?霍夫的《怎么用統計數字撒謊》；以及全球環保思想領袖瓦茨拉夫?斯米爾的《我們應該吃肉嗎？》。（財富中文網）

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

????審校：任文科

????The richest man in the world still makes time to squeeze in a good book now and then.

????Bill Gates—he of the $79 billion net worth, per Forbes—released his annual summer reading list on Tuesday. In between running one of the world’s largest charities and serving as technological advisor to the company he co-founded, Microsoft, Gates has made a habit in recent years of letting the world know what he’s reading.

????Gates unveiled his new 7-book summer reading list in a post titled “Beach Reading (and more)” on his personal blog, Gates Notes. Included in this year’s list is The Magic of Reality, by Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. There’s also On Immunity, by Eula Biss, which fits in well with one of the goals of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation by tackling the issue of childhood vaccinations.

????The billionaire techie also noted that he’s trying to lighten the mood a little bit this year. “This year I tried to pick a few more things that are on the lighter side. Each of these books made me think or laugh or, in some cases, do both,” Gates wrote in the blog post.

????In that vein, Gates includes a book adapted from Allie Brosh’s popular comic blog, Hyperbole and a Half, which Gates calls “funny and smart as hell.” Another item with a more graphic option is Randall Munroe’s XKCD, which draws from Munroe’s webcomic of the same name, which features a lot of mathematical and scientific humor. “It’s that kind of humor, which not everybody loves, but I do,” Gates writes.

????The rest of the books Gates recommends reading this summer are: What If?, also by Munroe; How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff; and, Should We Eat Meat?, by Vaclav Smil.