A good leader is a good reader. There are so many benefits to reading it'll be neverending to list all of them down if we were to do it. Elon Musk reads a lot, and the CEO and founder of SpaceX and Tesla has a list of favorite books that have inspired him. Check out that list:

‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

‘Benjamin Franklin: An American Life’ by Walter Isaacson

‘Einstein: His Life and Universe’ by Walter Isaacson

'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams

The ‘Foundation’ trilogy by Isaac Asimov

‘Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness’ by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

The ‘Culture’ series by Iain M. Banks

‘Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants’ by John D. Clark

‘Merchants of Doubt’ by Naomi Orestes and Erik M. Conway

Our Final Invention’ by James Barrat

‘Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down’ by J.E. Gordon

‘Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’ by Nick Bostrom

‘The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress’ by Robert Heinlein

‘Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future’ by Peter Thiel