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I was asked recently to name my five favourite books, and the task proved harder than I thought. There are
so many that I’ve loved for all sorts of different reasons that it was hard to narrow it down.
— Richard, about reading
Tie-loathing adventurer and thrill seeker, who believes in turning ideas into reality - Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is
an English businessman and investor. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400
companies. At the age of sixteen his first business venture was a magazine called Student.
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Favorite books of Richard Brenson:
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor

2. This is in his top 5 favorite books list

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Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing
battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians fought to
hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their Nazi enemy in an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers
on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed survivors and
discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including reports of prisoner interrogations, desertions, and
executions. The battle of Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of World War II; as Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern
warfare. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

4. Branson wrote in his book Screw It, Let's Do It that his favorite books "are Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
and Wild Swans by Jung Chang."
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a
bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An
engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and
love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s
struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural
Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician.
As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on
her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela

5. He has also cited Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom as a major inspiration
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial
oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a
quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of
the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial
government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO
FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for
the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

6. As a kid his favorite book was: "Swallows and Amazons - a lovely kids' adventure book."
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This is the first title in Arthur Ransom's classic serires, originally published in 1930, for children and grownups. This first book introduces the Walker
family and the camp on Wild Cat Island.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

7. This is in his top 5 favorite books list
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Where the Wild Things Are is fifty years old! Let the wild rumpus with Max and all the wild things continue as this classic comes to life as never
before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork. Astonishing state-of-the-art technology faithfully captures the color and detail of the
original illustrations. Sendak himself enthusiastically endorsed this impressive new interpretation of his art before his death in May 2012. Winner of
the 1964 Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, Where the Wild Things Are became an iconic book that has inspired
a movie, an opera, and the imagination of generations. It continues to be one of the best loved books of all time the world over, by the one and only
Maurice Sendak.
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

8. This is in his top 5 favorite books list
— [source]
Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

9. The Quiet American by Graham Greene

10. This is in his bonus 6th in his top 5 favorite books list
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the
eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington
on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder
into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for
intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress. Originally published in 1956 and
twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition
includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and
What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery

11. His answer to "What is your favourite book?"
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An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim
Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an
accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by
reviewers everywhere as the definitive book on global warming. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the
levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both
an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a
cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-
dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to
discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet.
Dice Man books by Luke Rhinehart

12. The billionaire said that the cult books, by Luke Rhinehart, influenced his decision-making in the early
days of his Virgin Records label.
— [source]
The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -
and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary,
shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

13. I want to read A Brief History of Time to my grandkids, & start early so they can finish it like I never did!
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson... #Take10
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14. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book
explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe
unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand,
A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger
God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to
the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.
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