Elon Musk

Billionaire, Celebrity, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur who leads Tesla and SpaceX, which since 2026 has included his AI company xAI (maker of Grok) and the social network X. He also founded The Boring Company and co-founded the brain-computer interface company Neuralink.

Elon Musk's 75 Book Recommendations

• The Fault in Our Stars
• Steve Jobs
• The Selfish Gene
• The Art of War
• Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
• The Machine Stops Illustrated
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Waiting for Godot
• Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• The Big Picture
• Superintelligence
• Our Final Invention
• Ignition!
• Merchants of Doubt
• Daemon
• Screw Business As Usual
• Liftoff
• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• Starhammer
• A Woman Makes a Plan
• Storm of Steel
• Human Compatible
• Das Kapital
• The Wealth of Nations
• The Stainless Steel Rat
• The Parasitic Mind
• The Wages of Destruction
• Stranger in a Strange Land: “Moon is a Harsh Mistress and the first 2/3 of Stranger in a Strange Land”
• Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines: “Ignition by John Clarke, Huzel & Wang book on propulsion, Asimov's Foundation, Heinlein's MiaHM”
• What's Our Problem?: “Worth reading”
• 1493: “Worth reading the book 1493”
• Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar: “Stalin: Court of the Red Czar by Montefiore (If you want some real nightmares)”
• Neuromancer: “Hope this is good. The novel is amazing.”
• Suicidal Empathy: “Book very much worth reading”
• Foundation: “Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation”
• Twelve Against the Gods: “Some audiobook recommendations: … Twelve Against the Gods by Bolitho”
• American Caesar: “Some audiobook recommendations: … American Caesar by Manchester”
• The Odyssey: “Love the Iliad and Odyssey”
• The Age of Napoleon: “The Age of Napoleon by Will & Ariel Durant is an amazing book”
• The Life of Greece: “The Story of Civilization. First book is a little dry, but second book, The Life of Greece, is incredible.”
• Look to Windward: “Reading Look to Windward by Banks. He is an amazing writer. Pantheon level.”
• Excession: “Possibly Excession, but I’d recommend reading Player of Games & Surface Detail first. They’re all great.”
• Surface Detail: “All of them, especially Surface Detail”
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman: “Just finished Massie's book on Catherine. An amazingly expansive and compelling portrait of an incredible woman. Highly recommend.”
• Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: “Worth reading Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me by @will_da_beast630”
• Bad Therapy: “Good book”
• The Fellowship of the Ring: “I know it's cliche, but LotR is my favorite book ever :)”
• The Strange Death of Europe: “Worth reading”
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: “Some audiobook recommendations: … Genghis Khan by Weatherford”
• The Guns of August: “Some audiobook recommendations: … The Guns of August by Tuchman”
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: “His non-physics books, like “Surely you’re joking …” are great.”
• Destined For War: “Again, could not recommend this book more. Audio version is great.”
• Dune: “Dune series by Herbert also brilliant. He advocates placing limits on machine intelligence.”
• Life 3.0: “Worth reading Life 3.0 by @Tegmark. AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let’s get it right.”
• The Gallic Wars: “Some audiobook recommendations: … The Gallic Wars by Caesar”
• The Iliad: “Can’t recommend The Iliad enough!”
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: “As described in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (great book), a linear accelerator would be great for the moon.”
• On Writing: “Good book @StephenKing”
• Masters of Doom: “Masters of Doom is a great book”
• Red Rising: “Great book and series. Read them years ago.”
• The Road to Serfdom: “Great book by Hayek”
• The Player of Games: “Player of Games is a great book”
• Man's Search For Meaning: “That’s a great book”
• Plutarch's Lives (Volumes I and II): “Great book”
• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: “Great book. Read it when it came out.”
• Lying: “Read "Lying", the new book by my friend Sam Harris. Excellent cover art and lots of good reasons not to lie!”
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: “I liked biographies and autobiographies… something like Franklin's, both his autobiography and say the biography… by Isaacson… is really good”
• The Capitalist Manifesto: “This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right, especially chapter 4”
• What We Owe the Future: “Worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy.”
• Zero to One: “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”
• The Story of Civilization: “The Story of Civilization by Durant ... The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile.”
• The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present: “I hope someone makes an audiobook of The Encyclopedia of Military History by Dupuy and The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Creasy.”