Elon Musk’s 2024 Reading List

The 11 books Elon Musk recommended in 2024, with the reasons in their own words. See all the books Elon Musk recommends.

11 books recommended in 2024

The Story of Civilization

by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile.

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The Iliad

by Homer

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The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich A. von Hayek

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American Caesar

by William Manchester

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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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The Wages of Destruction

by Adam Tooze

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Storm of Steel

by Ernst Jünger

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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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The Gallic Wars

by Julius Caesar

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Twelve Against the Gods

by William Bolitho

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford

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