
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004, building it into one of the world's largest social media platforms with billions of users. As CEO of Meta Platforms, he has overseen the company's evolution from a social network to a metaverse-focused technology conglomerate. His reading interests span business strategy, physics, history, and biography.
45 Books Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg
Ranked by popularity across all reading lists on this site

Sapiens
34 people recommendedA big history narrative of human civilization.
Also recommended by: Ankur Warikoo, Naval Ravikant, Bill Gates, Changpeng Zhao, Daniel Ek, James Cameron, Kishore Biyani, Melinda Gates, Ray Dalio, Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gurley, Anthony Pompliano, Chris Evans, Demis Hassabis, James Clear, Joe Rogan, Karlie Kloss, Keith Rabois, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Penn Jillette, Peter Attia, Pewdiepie, Ryan Shea, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Simon Mayo, Whitney Cummings, Derek Sivers

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
26 people recommendedFor anyone insterested in building, growing, or leading a great company, this book is an incredibly valuable resource.
Also recommended by: Ankur Warikoo, Balaji Srinivasan, Michael Dell, Larry Page, Peter Thiel, Drew Houston, Dustin Moskovitz, Marc Andreessen, Balaji S. Srinivasan, Andrew Ng, Andrew Wilkinson, Blake Scholl, Chris Dixon, Fred Wilson, Jodie Cook, Kathryn Minshew, Keith Rabois, Luis Von Ahn, Marty Cagan, Matt Mullenweg, Max Levchin, Peter Attia, Raoul Pal, Tim Ferriss, Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Zero to One
24 people recommendedThis book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.
Also recommended by: Elon Musk, Eric Jorgenson, Dustin Moskovitz, Kishore Biyani, Marc Andreessen, Rupert Murdoch, Sam Altman, Andrew Ng, Ben Horowitz, Bryan Johnson, Brian Dean, Chris Dixon, Eric Weinstein, Keith Rabois, Lee Stranahan, Luis Von Ahn, Matt Mullenweg, Max Levchin, Nassim Taleb, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Ryan Petersen, Tom Bilyeu, Derek Sivers

Snow Crash
15 people recommendedAnyone interested in [virtual reality] would read [this book].
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Cameron Winklevoss, Ev Williams, Tobi Lutke, Adam Savage, Brandon Stanton, Austen Allred, Fred Wilson, Nolan Bushnell, Ryan Shea, Seth Godin

The Better Angels of Our Nature
13 people recommendedAbout how and why violence has steadily decreased throughout our history, and how we can continue this trend.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ben Silbermann, Eric Schmidt, John Arnold, Aj Jacobs, Chris Anderson, Anthony Pompliano, Jack Kornfield, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Penn Jillette, Stewart Brand

High Output Management
13 people recommendedPlayed a big role in shaping my management style.
Also recommended by: Larry Ellison, Brian Armstrong, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, John Doerr, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Tobi Lutke, Ben Horowitz, Justin Kan, Keith Rabois, Sahil Lavingia

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
11 people recommendedOn the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Brian Armstrong, Ev Williams, James Clear, Noah Kagan, Peter Attia, Sahil Lavingia, Tim Ferriss

The Rational Optimist
11 people recommendedArgues [that] economic progress is the greater force [that] is pushing society forward.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Bill Gates, John Arnold, Marc Andreessen, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gurley, Anthony Pompliano, Jordan Peterson, Mr Money Mustache, Nick Szabo

The Beginning of Infinity
9 people recommendedAbout how the way we explain things unlocks greater possibilities.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Patrick Collison, Chris Anderson, Mark Bell, Ryan Shea, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Derek Sivers

Ready Player One
9 people recommendedAnyone interested in [virtual reality] would read [this book].
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Astro Teller, Bill Gurley, Austen Allred, Barry Ritholtz, George R R Martin, Jenn Im, Steve Jurvetson

Einstein
8 people recommendedOn the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ray Dalio, Sam Altman, Charlie Munger, Ed Zschau, George Raveling, Scott Belsky

Creativity, Inc.
8 people recommendedI love reading first-hand accounts about how people build great companies like Pixar and nurture innovation and creativity.
Also recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Demis Hassabis, Ezra Klein, Jason Calacanis, Michael Mauboussin, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Trung Phan

Lean In
8 people recommendedCombines [the author]'s ability to synthesize information with her understanding of how to get the best out of people.
Also recommended by: John Doerr, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Alicia Keys, Arianna Huffington, Jim Collins, Mindy Kaling

The Republic
6 people recommendedOn the "favorite books" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Sam Altman, Vlad Tenev, Maria Popova, Mark Manson, Nolan Bushnell

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
6 people recommendedExplores the question of whether science and technology make consistent forward progress or whether progress comes in bursts related to other social forces.
Also recommended by: Steve Jobs, Brad Delong, David Deutsch, Paul Graham, Stanislav Grof

Open
5 people recommendedOn the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Dave Elitch, Shaun White, Tim Ferriss

The New Jim Crow
5 people recommendedI've been interested in learning about criminal justice reform for a while, and this book was highly recommended by several people I trust.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, J Cole, Steve Kerr, Sunny Hostin

The Giving Tree
5 people recommendedOn the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, Jen Rubio, Michael Batnick

Genome
4 people recommendedAims to tell a history of humanity from the perspective of genetics rather than sociology.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Charlie Munger, Nick Szabo

The Idea Factory
4 people recommended[Looks] at Bell Labs, which was one of the most innovative labs in history.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Ron Conway, David Friedberg
Goes through this decades-long analysis in the US.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Julia Galef, Steve Kerr

On Immunity
3 people recommendedExplores the reasons why some people question vaccines, and then logically explains why the doubts are unfounded and vaccines are in fact effective and safe.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ryan Shea

Decoded
3 people recommendedOn the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.
Also recommended by: Lebron James, Sahil Lavingia

The Last Days of Night
3 people recommendedAbout the competition to electrify the nation between Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla.
Also recommended by: Vinod Khosla, Chris Dixon

Energy
2 people recommendedExplores important topics around how energy works, how our production and use might evolve, and how this affects climate change.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates

Why Nations Fail
2 people recommendedExplores the different kinds of social institutions and incentives that nations have applied to encourage prosperity, economic development and elimination of poverty.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates

The Player of Games
2 people recommendedA science fiction book about an advanced civilization with AI and a vibrant culture.
Also recommended by: Lex Fridman

Dealing with China
2 people recommendedI've been personally interested as a student of Chinese culture, history and language. I'm looking forward to reading Paulson's perspective on what China's rise means for the world.
Also recommended by: Anthony Pompliano


The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
On the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.

The Muqaddimah
A history of the world written by an intellectual who lived in the 1300s.

Portfolios of the Poor
It's mind-blowing that almost half the world -- almost 3 billion people -- live on $2.50 a day or less.

The Information
On the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.

Physics of the Impossible
On the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.



The End of Power
Explores how the world is shifting to give individual people more power that was traditionally only held by large governments, militaries and other organizations.

Gang Leader for a Day
Explores what life is like for those who don't live under effective governance.
An alternate version of 1984. After seeing how history has actually played out, Huber's fiction describes how tools like the internet benefit people and change society for the better.

The Varieties of Religious Experience
When I read 'Sapiens':, I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on.

Rational Ritual
[About] how people process the world not only based on what we personally know, but what we know other people know and our shared knowledge as well.

World Order
About foreign relations and how we can build peaceful relationships throughout the world.

Rainbows End
The augmented reality equivalent of some of the seminal works that talk about virtual reality.
On the "books read" section of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile.

