7 self-made billionaires share their favorite books

The richest, most successful people tend to be avid readers. But what books are they poring over?

CNBC rounded up Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and five other self-made billionaires' favorites, from business books to novels.

How many of these have you read?

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

• "Structures" by J.E. Gordon

• "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson

• "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson

• "Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom

• "Merchants of Doubt" by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes

• "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

• "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel

• The "Foundation" trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Read more about Musk's favorites.

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

• "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham

• "Business Adventures" by John Brooks

Read more about Buffett's favorites here and here .

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

• "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

• "Built to Last" by Jim Collins

• "Creation" by Steve Grand

• "Good to Great" by Jim Collins

• "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen

• "Sam Walton: Made in America" by Sam Walton

• "Lean Thinking" by James Womanck and Daniel Jones

• "Memos from the Chairman" by Alan Greenberg

• "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

• "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt

• "Data-Driven Marketing" by Mark Jeffery

• "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb

Read more about Bezos' favorites.

Mark Cuban, "Shark Tank" investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks

• "Self-Made Success" by Shaan Patel

• "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries

• "The Only Game in Town" by Mohamed A. El-Erian

• "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen

Read more about Cuban's favorites.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

• "Business Adventures" by John Brooks

• "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion

• "String Theory" by David Foster Wallace

• "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight

• "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• "The Myth of the Strong Leader" by Archie Brown

• "The Grid" by Gretchen Bakke

Read more about Gates' favorites of 2016, and his all-time favorites, here and here.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square

• "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

• "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman

Read more about Dorsey's favorites.

Richard Branson, founder of The Virgin Group

• "Winners" by Alastair Campbell

• "If I Could Tell You Just One Thing" by Richard Reed

• "Black Box Thinking" by Matthew Syed

• "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck

Read more about Branson's favorites of 2016.

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