Mark Zuckerberg book club explained

Mark Zuckerberg book club (aka 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]

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.[3] Zuckerberg modified the idea to one book every two weeks and books which "emphasize learning about new cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies."[1]

Book club selections

DateAuthorTitleCitation
1January 2, 2015Moisés NaímThe End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
2January 18, 2015Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined[4]
3February 2, 2015Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets[5]
4February 18, 2015Eula Biss[6]
5March 3, 2015Ed CatmullCreativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration[7]
6March 17, 2015Thomas KuhnThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions[8] [9]
7March 31, 2015Michael Chwe[10] [11]
8April 15, 2015Hank Paulson[12]
9April 28, 2015Peter W. Huber[13]
10May 14, 2015Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness[14]
11June 1, 2015Ibn KhaldunMuqaddimah[15]
12June 15, 2015Yuval Harari[16]
13June 29, 2015Iain BanksThe Player of Games[17]
14July 14, 2015Vaclav Smil[18]
15July 28, 2015Matt RidleyGenome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters[19]
16August 12, 2015William JamesThe Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature[20]
17September 1, 2015Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford[21]
18September 16, 2015Daron Acemoğlu, James A. RobinsonWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty[22]
19September 29, 2015Matt Ridley[23]
20October 21, 2015Liu CixinThe Three-Body Problem[24]
21November 9, 2015Jon Gertner[25]
22December 10, 2015Henry KissingerWorld Order[26]
23December 28, 2015David DeutschThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World[27]

Reception

The Atlantic wrote that it "has the potential to be Oprahesque in its influence on book sales", in reference to the Oprah Book Club after the first selection by Moisés Naím caused Amazon's stock to sell out.[28] An article in The New Yorker made a similar comparison to Oprah.[29] The Associated Press noted that the second selection by Steven Pinker did not result in any increase in sales according to Nielsen BookScan data.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg Starts A Book Club As His New Year's Resolution . Forbes . Amit Chowdhry . January 5, 2015 . February 2, 2015.
  2. News: Twenty-three books Mark Zuckerberg thinks everyone should read . . Richard . Feloni . February 5, 2018 . July 21, 2023.
  3. Web site: My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book... . Facebook . Mark . Zuckerberg . January 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150823032806/https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101828640656261 . 2015-08-23 . live.
  4. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg's Year of Books: the full list . The Daily Telegraph . Rhiannon Williams . 1 February 2015 . February 2, 2015.
  5. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg makes 3rd book club pick . . Associated Press . February 2, 2015 . February 2, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150203053235/http://www.denverpost.com/ci_27443288/mark-zuckerberg-makes-3rd-book-club-pick . February 3, 2015 . dead.
  6. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg's book club fights US fear of vaccination . . Claire Armitstead . February 19, 2015 . February 19, 2015.
  7. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks everyone can learn something from Pixar . . Richard Feloni . March 3, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  8. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg book club tackles the philosophy of science . . Alison Flood . March 19, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  9. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this landmark philosophy book from the 1960s . . Richard Feloni . March 17, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  10. News: Mark Zuckerberg wants people to understand common knowledge. What's common knowledge? . . . April 8, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  11. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg hopes this book will help shape his vision for Facebook . . Richard Feloni . April 1, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  12. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg is reading Hank Paulson's new book about China . . Richard Feloni . April 16, 2015 . April 19, 2015.
  13. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg is reading 'Orwell's Revenge,' an unofficial sequel to '1984' . . Richard Feloni . April 29, 2015 . April 29, 2015.
  14. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read 'The New Jim Crow' . . Richard Feloni . May 14, 2015. June 20, 2015.
  15. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read the 14th-century Islamic book 'The Muqaddimah' . . Richard Feloni . June 2, 2015. June 20, 2015.
  16. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read an Israeli historian's book about the human race . . Richard Feloni . June 16, 2015. June 20, 2015.
  17. Web site: Why Are Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Reading Utopian Sci-Fi? . . Alix Jean-Pharuns . July 10, 2015 . August 12, 2015.
  18. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read a book by Bill Gates' favorite author . . Shana Lebowitz . July 16, 2015 . August 12, 2015.
  19. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this book about the evolution of man . . Richard Feloni . July 28, 2015 . August 12, 2015.
  20. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this book about religion . . Richard Feloni . August 12, 2015 . August 12, 2015.
  21. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about how the poor spend their money . . Richard Feloni . September 1, 2015 . September 17, 2015.
  22. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about the origins of global poverty . . Richard Feloni . September 15, 2015 . September 17, 2015.
  23. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this book about 'idea sex' . . Richard Feloni . September 29, 2015 . October 23, 2015.
  24. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this book that caused a sensation in China . . Richard Feloni . October 21, 2015 . October 23, 2015.
  25. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about the lab that has won the most Nobel Prizes . . Richard Feloni . November 9, 2015 . November 10, 2015.
  26. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read Henry Kissinger's book about world order . . Richard Feloni . December 10, 2015 . December 10, 2015.
  27. Web site: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read a book that claims human potential is infinite . . Richard Feloni . December 28, 2015. December 28, 2015.
  28. Web site: Mark Zuckerberg's Book Club Could Be (Much) Bigger Than It Looks . The Atlantic . Adrienne LaFrance . January 5, 2015 . February 2, 2015.
  29. The Zuckerberg Bump . The New Yorker . Lizzie Widdicombe . January 19, 2015 . February 2, 2015.

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