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The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy
A small hobbit walks a ring to its destruction across a continent at war. The book Musk says he read repeatedly as a child, alongside the encyclopedia.
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Elon Musk
Said in interviews he read it repeatedly as a child.
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Reid Hoffman
“The book that I've most often read is Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.”
Hoffman has said in multiple interviews that LOTR is the book he has re-read most — a hero's-journey-of-the-small-people that captures his views on power, collaboration, and corruption.
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Peter Thiel
Favorite book as a teenager, read repeatedly.
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Naval Ravikant
“Loved Lord of The Rings and other fiction when [I was] younger.”
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Paul Graham
Recommended as a young adult book.