Biographies and Memoirs
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. This is a beautiful memoir—and not exactly what you'd expect based on the WSJ article and the popular conception of Amy Chua.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
Antilibrary:
Idea Man by Paul Allen. It's surprisingly hard to find a good a founding history of Microsoft, and this was recommended as one good source.
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross.
Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neil Gabler or The Animated Man by Michael Barrier. There's some acrimony between these two writers and a lack of consensus on which is the better biography.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. This is an epic series of biographies (four volumes) about Lyndon Johnson and, more generally, a study of power.
Debussy: A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh.
Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe.
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life by Shimon Peres.