Topic: books recommended by Elon Musk

[patentlymn]

These books are also in a service Blinklist which does summaries.

https://x.com/blinkist/status/1857101813654438229
1. Human Compatible by Stuart Russell

2. Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

3. Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

4. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

5. The Big Picture by Sean M. Carroll

6. Lying by Sam Harris

7. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

9. Radical Candor by Kim Scott

[Libertas]

My non-fiction list is mostly American history, European history, world history, military history, physics, astronomy, philosophy, Christianity and biographies of most of the preceding...

I guess my closest match to Elon is Wealth of Nations...

[patentlymn]

In the list I read wealth of nations long ago. I did the audiobook version of zero to one. OK. The chapter on the Unabomber manifesto was good and unexpected.

I do not read as much as I used to. Recently I read maybe 8 books on life before and after the USSR falling. Some from Ghodsee. Also a few on China. I like fact based bottom up books. China is strange. Not western. Two books are The Party (McGregor) and Red Roulette.

My favorite/most influential books over my life.
Atlas Shrugged, A Conflict of Visions, Ethnic America, 
Radical Son, 3 NN Taleb books
 
Albions Seed, the History of Warfare in the Western World


I liked  lots of Sowell books.
The Burden of Bad Ideas was very good and should be read.

[patentlymn]

Wealth of Nations?
try
https://www.amazon.com/Free-Trade-Doesnt-Work-Replace/dp/0578079674