# The 61 Books Elon Musk Has Recommended on Twitter

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_Entrepreneur_ magazine writes:

_Although his days are presumably filled with Tesla, SpaceX, cyber pigs and lots and lots of tweeting, it seems Elon Musk also [finds the time to make reading part of his routine](https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/355673). The billionaire businessman is known for sharing (and oversharing) all his recommendations and thoughts on Twitter, so it’s no surprise that books are part of that._

 

_Most Recommended Books [compiled a list of all the books Musk has commented on](https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/elon-musk-books/) in the past several years, and you can see all 61 here. But if you’re short on time today, click through to see 11 of the most interesting picks from his list._  
The list includes Peter Thiel’s 2014 best-seller _Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future_ , as well as business magnate Richard Branson’s 2011 book _Screw Business As Usual_ .

Musk also calls a 2004 biography of Howard Hughes “a cautionary tale,” and a 2005 biography of Stalin “One of the few books so dark I had to stop reading.” And for a 2011 biography of Catherine the Great, he wrote “I know what you’re probably thinking … did she really f\* a horse?”

His favorite books about space include John Drury Clark’s _Ignition!_ as well as _Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines_ . But there’s also Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ and Douglas Adams’ _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ . (“My favorite spaceship ever is in [this book].”) And he calls Isaac Asimov’s _Foundation_ series “fundamental to [the] creation of SpaceX.”

Also on the list is _Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence_ (which Bill Gates also named as one of his 10 favorite books about technology) as well as Frank Herbert’s _Dune_ , which Musk calls “Brilliant,” while noting that Herbert “advocates placing limits on machine intelligence.” In fact, for eight different books on the list he’d added the same cautionary warning: “Hopefully not too optimistic about AI.”

He also says he read Karl Marx’s _Das Kapital_ at the age of 14, and also read Ayn Rand’s _Atlas Shrugged_ (which Musk called “a counterpoint to communism and useful as such, but should be tempered with kindness.”)

But Musk says his favorite book ever is J.R.R. Tolkien’s _The Lord of the Rings._

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> [@NoBody](#):
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> But Musk says his favorite book ever is J.R.R. Tolkien’s _The Lord of the Rings_

This is it.