Elon Musk’s Reading List: Every Book He Mentioned On Twitter (with tweets!)
When seriously studying Python, what do you build?
A twitter scraper of course!
Why?
I enjoy reading biographies. But I love autobiographies even more. Knowing how someone really thinks is fascinating.
But… what if they never wrote a book?
They probably tweet!
So, I dowloaded every tweet written by a few people I find interesting (Naval Ravikant, Dr Rhonda Patrick, Demis Hassabis, etc…)
Sidenote: Damn you Marc Andreessen for deleting all your tweets!!
One of these people was Elon.
What’s even cooler is I found every book he mentioned on Twitter.
So I gathered the full list and put it right here (with tweets!), for your reading pleasure 🙂
Enjoy!
Elon Musk Books
3. Screw Business As Usual: Turning Capitalism into a Force for Good — Richard Branson
4. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman — Robert K. Massie
5. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants — John Drury Clark
6. Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines — Dieter K. Huzel & David H. Huang
7. Foundation (7 Book Series) — Isaac Asimov
8. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein
9. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom
10. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era — James Barrat
12. Dune (6 Book Series) — Frank Herbert
13. Culture (10 Book Series) — Iain M. Banks
14. The Fault in Our Stars — John Green
15. The Machine Stops — E.M. Forster
16. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts — Samuel Beckett
17. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
18. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself — Sean Carroll
19. The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien
20. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Max Tegmark
22. A Game of Thrones (5 Book Series)— George R. R. Martin
24. The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
P.S.: For much entertainment, follow Elon on Twitter.
P.P.S.: If you like book recommendations such as these, I recently built this website with a friend. Here you can find many more people’s recommendations (e.g. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, etc…)
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