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Books Elon Musk recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Entrepreneur and engineer; CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Elon Musk is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams source
  2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov: Book 1 of the series he recommended. source
  3. Dune by Frank Herbert: Book 1 of the series he recommended. source
  4. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett source
  5. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand source
  6. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green source
  7. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody? by Stephen Webb source
  8. The Big Picture by Sean Carroll source
  9. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella source
  10. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins source
  11. Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes source
  12. What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill source
  13. Ignition! by John Drury Clark source
  14. The Story of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant source
  15. The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant and Ariel Durant source
  16. The Life of Greece by Will Durant and Ariel Durant source
  17. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon source
  18. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger source
  19. Not Much of an Engineer by Sir Stanley Hooker source
  20. The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze source
  21. On War by Carl von Clausewitz source
  22. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Edward Shepherd Creasy source
  23. The Art of War by Sun Tzu source
  24. Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson source
  25. Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore source
  26. American Caesar by William Manchester source
  27. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson source
  28. Explore/Create by Richard Garriott source
  29. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark source
  30. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom source
  31. Human Compatible by Stuart Russell source
  32. Our Final Invention by James Barrat source
  33. Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow source
  34. Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson source
  35. Masters of Doom by David Kushner source
  36. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith source
  37. Zero to One by Peter Thiel source
  38. What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban source
  39. Lying by Sam Harris source
  40. A Woman Makes a Plan by Maye Musk source
  41. Powered by Squarespace source

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