Here we track every book Elon Musk mentioned on his X account.
For a complete list across all sources, see this page.
40 books and 0 series.
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
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Tim Ferriss, Ray Dalio, George Raveling, Scott Belsky, Brandon Stanton, Ed Zschau, Charlie Munger
Lying
by Sam Harris
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
Also recommended by:
Paul Graham, John Carmack, Bill Gates, Christopher Sommer, Ryan Shea
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
Also recommended by:
Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Sam Altman, Will MacAskill, Marc Goodman
Our Final Invention
Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by James Barrat
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The Big Picture
On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean Carroll
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
by Stephen Webb
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The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Also recommended by:
Naval Ravikant, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Szabo, Noam Chomsky, Brandon Stanton, Bill Gurley, Patrick Bet-David
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
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Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, Shah Rukh Khan, Joe De Sena, Peter Diamandis, Ev Williams, Gabby Reece, Travis Kalanick, Brian Armstrong, Amelia Boone, Bob Metcalfe, Blake Scholl, Fred Wilson, Phil Jackson, John Carmack, Mark Cuban, Ray Dalio, Austen Allred, Russell Brunson, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Patrick Bet-David
A Woman Makes a Plan
Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success
by Maye Musk
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The Age of Napoleon
The Story of Civilization, Book 11
by Will & Ariel Durant
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Liftoff
Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
by Steven Novella
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Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
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Patrick Collison, Alexis Ohanian, Jeff Atwood, Tobi Lütke, Austen Allred, Trung Phan
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
From Marathon to Waterloo
by Edward Shepherd Creasy
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American Caesar
Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
by William Manchester
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What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill
Also recommended by:
A.J. Jacobs, Ezra Klein, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Galef, Liv Boeree, Sam Harris, Stephen Fry
What's Our Problem?
A Self-Help Book for Societies
by Tim Urban








































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