Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Investors and traders

13 people and 8 topics holding 105 books.

Benjamin GrahamThinly biographied for so central a figure; his own memoirs and textbooks remain the primary record.6 books
Carl IcahnOnly one dedicated biography exists, now thirty years old; the takeover histories cover him better than any recent book.5 books
Charlie MungerOne authorised biography and one compiled speech collection carry almost the whole literature.8 books
Gamblers and card countersBooks on blackjack teams and high-stakes poker players.4 books
George SorosOne serious biography; his own books and interviews carry more of the record than any outsider's.6 books
Hedge fund managersBooks on and by managers of hedge funds, long-short books, activist funds and short sellers.8 books
Investor profiles and interviewsCollections that profile or interview many investors of different styles.10 books
Jim RogersCo-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros, born 1942.2 books
Jim SimonsThere is exactly one book-length treatment; Renaissance's secrecy has prevented any other.1 book
John BogleNo full biography exists, but two recent books cover the index-fund revolution he started; his own dozen books carry the rest.3 books
JT
John TempletonFounder of the Templeton Growth Fund, global investor, 1912-2008.2 books
Ken GriffinNo dedicated biography exists.3 books
Mutual fund and bond managersBooks on the founders and managers of mutual fund and bond firms such as Vanguard, T.3 books
PC
Peter CundillCanadian value investor, Cundill Value Fund, 1938-2011.2 books
QuantsBooks on investors who trade with mathematical models.1 book
Ray DalioOne investigative biography; Dalio's own Principles is the counter-narrative and belongs in the author files.2 books
Stephen SchwarzmanCo-founder and chief executive of Blackstone, born 1947.2 books
Traders and speculatorsBooks on and by people who trade stocks, futures, currencies and crypto for short-term gains.7 books
Value investorsBooks on and by investors who buy businesses below their worth, in the line of Graham and Buffett.8 books
Venture capitalists and private equityBooks on venture capital and buyout firms and the people who built them.3 books
Warren BuffettTwo full biographies anchor the literature, one authorised and one not, surrounded by a large method-study industry.21 books

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