1. String Theory (David Foster Wallace) - A collection of essays about tennis. Something Gates wants to get back into.
2. Shoe Dog (Phil Knight) - A memoir from the CEO of Nike.
3. The Gene: An Intimate History (Siddhartha Mukherjee) - Taking genome science to answer big questions about our personalities and what makes us, us
4. The Myth of the Strong Leader (Archie Brown) - Exploring the theory that history's most effective leaders were not all stereotypically 'strong'
5. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Gretchen Bakke) - Exploring the electrical grid as one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world.