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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Berkshire Hathaway

Conglomeratesconglomerate-insurance

Buffett and Munger's textile shell turned insurance-funded conglomerate, and the most written-about investment vehicle in history.

Books 13Experts 5Recommenders 30People 3
Buffett: The Making of an American CapitalisBuffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
T1 Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buffett's life from Omaha and Graham's class to building Berkshire Hathaway.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 12 others

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for CoThe Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
T1 The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren Buffett · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Berkshire's shareholder letters arranged by topic: governance, valuation, mergers.

“The resource is as valuable as Larry Cunningham's The Essays of Warren Buffett, which similarly organizes by subject matter” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2024 Letter to Clients, 'Books and Tunes for Walking', p. 96

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Francois Rochon and 11 others

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the BusinesThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
T1 The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buffett's life to 2008, written with full access to his files and his friends.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Guy Spier, Mohnish Pabrai and 5 others

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to ShareholdersBerkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
T1 Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
Warren Buffett · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Every Berkshire annual letter since 1965, in order, as the company grew.

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Arnold Van Den Berg and 5 others

The Warren Buffett WayThe Warren Buffett Way
T2 The Warren Buffett Way
Robert G. Hagstrom · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buffett's method as tests of the business, its managers, its finances and price.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Ackman, Howard Marks and 1 other

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on PractTap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
T2 Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
Carol J. Loomis · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fortune's articles by and about Buffett from 1966 to 2012, with commentary.

“I hope many people, even those who think they know Warren well, will read it cover to cover.” — Bill Gates

Source: Gates Notes review of Tap Dancing to Work

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Guy Spier, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others

Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with BerkshireDamn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
T3 Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
Janet Lowe · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

The only full biography; written with Munger's cooperation.

“The two I'd recommend that I thoroughly enjoyed are Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2023 Letter to Clients, 'Worldly Wisdom', p. 81

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai

The Essential BuffettThe Essential Buffett
T3 The Essential Buffett
Robert G. Hagstrom · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Buffett's approach set out as tenets for judging businesses, managers and prices.

“I recommend all of Hagstrom's books on Buffett.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Investing & Capital Allocation, entry 225

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Margin of Trust
T3 Margin of Trust
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Stephanie Cuba · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Berkshire runs on trust instead of the controls other large firms use.

Recommended by: Warren Buffett

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
T3 The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
Adam J. Mead · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Berkshire Hathaway's finances rebuilt year by year from 1955.

The Deals of Warren BuffettThe Deals of Warren Buffett
T4 The Deals of Warren Buffett
Glen Arnold · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — Celebrating 50 Yea
T4 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — Celebrating 50 Years of a Profitable Partnership (2nd edition)
Goodreads

Recommended by: Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders,
T4 Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2016
Warren Buffett
Goodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

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