Bookplanet: favorite books of world's richest man

In the October 31, 2005 issue of Fortune Magazine, Bill Gates revealed his favorite books of the moment: 

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil
The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman
The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs
Winning, Jack Welch
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond

Bill says in the article that Guns, Germs, and Steel is one of his all-time favorites.