Jeff Bezos: "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of over $73 billion. So, it's perhaps a little surprising that his favorite book, Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day," revolves around the life of a servant. In this case, that servant is an English butler called Stevens, who narrates the novel.
Set in postwar England, the elderly butler must come to terms with some pivotal issues from his past, whilst maintaining his stoic and "correct" behavior. In 1993, the book was turned into a beautiful film featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
Speaking about the book to The Washington Post, Bezos said, "You can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret." Awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989, "The Remains of the Day" was included in The Guardian's "Books You Can't Live Without" list.
