curated list
books recommended by billionaires
The books most often recommended by the world's wealthiest people — Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, and other billionaires whose reading lists shape global business and philanthropy.
Aggregated across 26 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.
most recommended books on this list
- 5 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
5 recommenders
- 5 people
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 2014
5 recommenders
- 4 people
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
4 recommenders
- 4 people
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Clayton M. Christensen · 2003
4 recommenders
- 3 people
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis · 2012
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 2004
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty · 2014
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
Graham Allison · 2017
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 2004
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007
3 recommenders
- 2 people
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
Jim Collins · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks · 1969
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
Vaclav Smil · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Genome (text only) First American Edition edition by M. Ridley
Matt Ridley · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond Ph.D. · 2005
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
James Wallace · 1993
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Hopping over the Rabbit Hole
Anthony Scaramucci · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
David M. Rubenstein · 2022
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 2013
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Peter Buffett · 2010
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 1995
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Thomas J. Bollyky · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
2 recommenders
on this list
Elon Musk
Mark Cuban
Bill Gates
Richard Branson
Charlie Munger
Ray Dalio
Warren Buffett
Oprah Winfrey
Peter Thiel
Tim Cook
Larry Page
Jeff Bezos
Mark Zuckerberg
Sergey Brin
Michael Bloomberg
Lebron James
Sheryl Sandberg
Larry Ellison
Jamie Dimon
Michael Dell
Howard Marks
Jensen Huang
Sara Blakely
Carlos Slim
Phil Knight
Carl Icahn
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