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23 Book Recommendations from Mark Zuckerberg

By Mr Mark Jessen - Entertainment

Updated: 13 April, 2025

Readtime: 4 min

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Over the past year, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has been sharing his choices of reading with the world in a Facebook-based book club. The books Zuckerberg has shared focused on “different cultures, beliefs, histories, and technologies.” The book club, titled “A Year of Books reading group,” ended up with 23 different selections.

Zuckerberg's 2019 Reading List — Zuckerberg’s 2019 Reading List

Zuckerberg actually started an online book club in 2015, and has always been an advocate for reading. “I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling,” said Zuckerberg. “Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.”

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The list has garnered Zuckerberg a bit of attention—more specifically, one particular book raised a few eyebrows earlier this year. Zuckerberg recommended “The Last Days of Night” by Graham Moore. Moore’s book told the story of Thomas Edison’s electricity monopoly, and the lengths that he went to in order to protect that monopoly. With 2020 Democratic presidential candidate calling for big tech companies like Facebook and Amazon being broke up to create more domestic tech competition, a book about protecting your monopoly is what some might call a bold choice. Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote in a blog post, “Today’s big tech companies have too much power—too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.” In the midst of such comments, reading a book that is essentially a how-to for monopolist is interesting to say the least.

Zuckerberg's 2019 Reading List The Muqaddimah book — The Muqaddimah book

But that wasn’t all that Zuckerberg read during 2019. His reading selection covered non-fiction books that discussed the benefits of the free market as well as sci-fi novels that explored where technology could be taking us. Zuckerberg read “The Muqaddimah,” a book about Islamic history. His interest in justice informed his reading choices, as did his curiosity about foreign relationships and the modern global economy. The titles Zuckerberg read cover a wide gamut of topics and genres—there’s something for everyone on the list. It will be interesting to see what books capture the Facebook CEO’s attention in 2020.

Here is the full list of Mark Zuckerberg’s Year of Books and 23 Book Recommendations: