Anyone know of any good biographies?

The Steve Jobs biography by Isaacson is really fantastic. It's great because you could label it a "business book" or a book on the psychology of an adopted, narcissistic creative genius. Easily one of my favorites. The movie sucked so don't judge it based on that.

Rags to riches. You're welcome.

I heard good things about the Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance

warren Buffett: snowball

Anything by Ron Chernow

The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro

Agree on Chernow

Outside of finance, any of the autobiography-type books by Richard Feynman, and Isaacson's bio on Einstein

autobiography:: kitchen confidential. more applicable to finance than you might think

The biographies of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris are excellent.

Take a look at King of Capital. There's a lot of emphasis on the idea of persistence, and how luck plays a role in success.

Haven't read them, but have heard 'Dreams from My Father' and 'The Audacity of Hope' by Obama are great.

I really enjoyed Tony Blair's autobiography and wrote a Monkey's review of it a while back.

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich, also look into the King of Capital.

Buffett by Lowenstein, I preferred this over Snowball. Snowball had more detail than you need to know about Buffett. Titan was good, but I don't know if I would read the actual physical copy (I listened to the audible version).

I'm reading King of Capital at the moment (about Schwarzman) and it's pretty good. A lot of history of the LBO market mixed in with a lot of personalities.

One of my favourite books is "How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer". It's part biography and part philosophy, and tells the story of Michel de Montaigne using the questions he posed and the answers he explored throughout his life.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Space Jam. It's not really reading but there you go.

Nothing related to business: "The Story of my Life" by Giacomo Geronimo Casanova (yes THE Casanova). This man's life is unparalleled.

Born in 1725 in Venice, at 17 he received his doctorate in law at the University of Padua and started his career in the clergy as an assistant to the Roman cardinal. He would later leave the clergy due to a scandal and join the Venetian army as a low-ranking officer. After being stationed in Greece, he returned to Venice to become a violinist. At 21, he saved the life of a nobleman who went on to become his loyal patron, elevating him to the status of a wealthy gentleman. This allowed Casanova to travel across Europe, networking w/ famous people and building his long lasting reputation as a talented seducer. He later became a conman, spy, gambler, and ... necromancer. Charged with witchcraft, the Italian Inquisition threw him in a top security prison, where he executed a daring jailbreak. Considered a fugitive in Italy, he finally settled as a librarian in the castle of a Bohemian Count, where he spent his last years writing his memoirs.

Walter Isaacson, author of books on Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin sets the gold standard for modern biography. So impressive, and second all the recommendations for his books.

Right now reading Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. http://www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com/books.html#team-of-rivals

Saw the movie Lincoln, which was quite good, and supposedly based on [parts of] the book. I think the book is incredibly detailed and well documented. I love the details of all the personalities as well as the historical background. Makes me want to see the film again, but it's only a partial, for sure.

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester is really good

check out will durant's biographies, great reads

jay-z's autobiography.

Concur with people recommending Lowenstein's Buffett book over Snowball (his book on LTCM is terrific too) and anything by Chernow. House of Cards about Bear Sterns is very entertaining (not a biography, but some great Jimmy Cayne stories). Eagerly awaiting King of Capital on order from Amazon.

Rebel Yell by S.C. Gwynne. It's about Stonewall Jackson, perhaps the second-best battlefield commander of the 19th century. Great insight into the both the politics and early years of the Civil War before the Union turned the tide at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

My fellow associate, Brick Tamland, recently published his memoir 'One Brick at a Time: How I Overcame Having an IQ of 48 to Become San Diego's Leading Weatherman'

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance was incredible. Bloomberg by Bloomberg was also a good read.