Top Shelf: July's Literary Picks from Leading Minds

At the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report, we get access to some of the greatest minds in scientific and technological innovation to bring you their insights in print every month. No conversation of ours is complete, however, without talking about one critical subject: The entertainment that feeds those great minds outside of the lab, clinic, or boardroom.
While the answers might not always make it to print, check in here, where we’re pulling together the best books read by some of our best recent interviews.

In this month’s premium edition of the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report , we brought you our conversations with NIH Director Francis Collins, Intel CTO Justin Rattner, and ResMed founder and chairman Peter Farrell. While Collins gave us reading to do, Rattner and Farrell shared their tips and a peek at their bookshelves.

Here are their top shelf picks:

Justin Rattner: Googled, by Ken Auletta, was a worthwhile read. Before that I read The World Without Us which was great, but rather sobering.

Peter Farrell: The Climate Caper, as I’ve been reading a lot on “climatology” recently with the launch of Climate Debate, which I backed. I also like autobiographies and find the lives of the Founding Fathers really interesting—especially Benjamin Franklin, because he was a scientist.

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