Elon Musks favorite books

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5 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Elon Musk, the genius behind Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal, also loves reading. He believes most of his success happened because of the books he read as both a child and an adult. His family says that he always had a book with him as a kid wherever he went. His mother told The New Yorker, “Elon would accompany me to dinner parties if I didn’t have a date. I would bring him to meet some interesting adults, and he’d hide a book under the table to read if they weren’t interesting enough.” His brother had a similar story about Musk reading up to two books in a single day. So here Elon Musk’s favorite books.

Take it from one of the most successful tech people and add these books that Elon Musk recommends to your list.

Structures

Musk went from coding to manufacturing rockets and, attributes, J.E. Gordon’s book structure helped him a lot doing that. Gordon’s book explicitly describes why bridges don’t tumble down, or skyscrapers fall over. Elon Musk tells Frances Anderton, the creator of KCRW’s Design and Architecture show, “It is really, really good if you want a primer on the structural design.” If…

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