The books that inspired tech's most influential people

New Delhi: Have you ever wondered which books have inspired the tech world's most influential personalities including Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates? Here is the list of books that have made them successful problem-solving leaders. Amazon CEO Jeff BezosHe reads business book "Built to Last" and a fictional novel, "The Remains of the Day."Among his favourites are Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.Zappos CEO Tony HsiehHe reads "Tribal Leadership" by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright.His other favourites include Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley and The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt.Microsoft's Bill GatesHe enjoys reading Steven Pinker's “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.”He also likes reading J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg His likes reading Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game."NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg He enjoys John le Carre spy novels.Oracle's Larry EllisonHis choice is "Napoleon" by Vincent CroninApple CEO Tim CookCook likes "Competing Against Time" by George Stalk and he's been known to hand out copies to Apple employees.Elon Musk South African-American inventor and entrepreneur Musk really likes Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."Square CEO Jack Dorsey Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company, likes "The Checklist Manifesto."When Jack Dorsey hires a new employee at his company Square, he gives them a welcome kit. In it is a big red book, The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande.Steve JobsVisionary Apple & Pixar Co-Founder Steve Jobs notably liked "Innovator's Dilemma," Shakespeare, Plato and "Moby Dick."In Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, he listed a number of books that influenced the co-founder of Apple. Among them: William Shakespeare's King Lear, Plato, Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Chogyam Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick.