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Every book Elon Musk mentioned on X (Twitter)

Aug 3, 2018

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

Screw Business As Usual

Turning Capitalism into a Force for Good

by Richard Branson

Catherine the Great

Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie

Ignition!

An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

by John Drury Clark

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines

by Dieter K Huzel

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

Daemon

by Daniel Suarez

Also recommended by:

Eric Weinstein, Alexis Ohanian

Our Final Invention

Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

by James Barrat

Also recommended by:

Sam Harris, Tim Urban

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Also recommended by:

Taylor Swift, Emma Watson

The Machine Stops

by E. M. Forster

Waiting for Godot

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

The Big Picture

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

by Sean Carroll

Also recommended by:

Liv Boeree

Acts of Love

by Talulah Riley

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

Also recommended by:

Patrick Collison

Das Kapital

A Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx

Also recommended by:

Noam Chomsky

Human Compatible

Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell

Stalin

The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Also recommended by:

Ross Kaminsky

A Woman Makes a Plan

Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success

by Maye Musk

Also recommended by:

Karlie Kloss

The Age of Napoleon

The Story of Civilization, Book 11

by Will & Ariel Durant

Also recommended by:

Larry Ellison

Starhammer

by Christopher B. Rowley

The Stainless Steel Rat

by Harry Harrison

Liftoff

Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

Also recommended by:

John Collison

Storm of Steel

by Ernst Jünger

Also recommended by:

Jocko Willink

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

by Steven Novella

Also recommended by:

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

From Marathon to Waterloo

by Edward Shepherd Creasy

Also recommended by:

Peter Thiel

The Wages of Destruction

The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

by Adam Tooze

Not Much of an Engineer

by Sir Stanley Hooker

American Caesar

Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964

by William Manchester

Also recommended by:

Ryan Holiday

The Life of Greece

The Story of Civilization, Book 2

by Will & Ariel Durant

What We Owe the Future

by William MacAskill

What's Our Problem?

A Self-Help Book for Societies

by Tim Urban

Also recommended by:

Joe Gebbia, Liv Boeree, Tobi Lütke

The Iliad

by Homer

Also recommended by:

Paul Graham, J.K. Rowling, Stewart Brand

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg

The Parasitic Mind

How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

by Gad Saad

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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