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, Charlie Munger, Brandon Stanton, Ed Zschau
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, Noam Chomsky, Nick Szabo, 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, Gabby Reece, Ev Williams, Travis Kalanick, Brian Armstrong, Amelia Boone, Bob Metcalfe, Russell Brunson, Patrick Bet-David, Rand Paul, Paul Krugman, Austen Allred, Ray Dalio, Mark Cuban, John Carmack, Phil Jackson, Fred Wilson, Blake Scholl
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, Austen Allred, Tobi Lütke, Jeff Atwood, 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:
Ezra Klein, A.J. Jacobs, 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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