Bill Gates suggested five autobiographies in his traditional list with reading suggestions for the summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The founder of Microsoft said, on his personal blog Gates Notes, most of whose works helped him design his own biography, released earlier this year.
To write yours Source Code: How it all began, published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, Gates said he thought about what he could take from the best biographies he had read. Therefore, with the exception of one of them (Chasing Hope), who only read them after finishing his book, decided to share some of them.
Recommended autobiographies
1. Katharine Graham, a Personal History
by Katharine Graham
DBA, 648 pages.
Autobiography of one of the most powerful women in the United States, editor of the Washington Post during one of the most critical periods in American politics.
2. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
by Nicholas D. Kristof
No Portuguese edition, 480 pages.
New York Times reporter and international correspondent Nicholas D. Kristof brings an optimistic and hopeful message to humanitarian crises.
3. The girl from the mountain
by Tara Westover
Rocco, 336 pgs.
Autobiographical account of an American woman born into a family that lived isolated from society, guided by her father's fanaticism, and who managed to change her life through education.
4. Born of Crime: Stories from My Childhood in South Africa
by Trevor Noa
Verus, 320 pgs.
Autobiography of the author's childhood and youth, who was born from a relationship forbidden by law between his black mother and white father in South Africa, at the end of the apartheid regime, hence the title. Noa is a well-known comedian and presenter in the USA.
5. Surrender: 40 songs, one story
by Bono Vox
Intrinseca, 616 pgs.
The U2 frontman's memoir covers everything from his childhood in Dublin to the Irish band's trajectory and Bono's activism, which took seven years to write.
