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Barack Obama

Barack Obama's Summer 2019 Reading List

Each summer Barack Obama shares the books he's been reading — literary fiction, big-idea nonfiction, and usually a crime novel or two.

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Summer 2019

13 books

Cover of Beloved

Beloved

A.S. Byatt, 1987

ClassicsFantasy+1
3.9
362 pg
Cover of Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison, 1977

Classics
4.2
369 pg
Cover of The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison, 1970

ClassicsHistorical
4.0
205 pg
Cover of The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead, 2019

Historical
4.3
224 pg
Cover of Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang, 2014

Sci-FiFantasy+1
4.3
350 pg
Cover of Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel, 2009

ClassicsHistorical+1
3.9
559 pg
Cover of Men Without Women

Men Without Women

Ted Goossen, 2014

FantasyClassics+1
3.7
241 pg
Cover of American Spy

American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson, 2019

Adventure
3.4
pg
Cover of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr, 2010

Non-FictionScience+1
3.8
328 pg
Cover of Lab Girl

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren, 2016

BiographyScience+1
4.1
304 pg
Cover of Inland

Inland

Téa Obreht, 2016

AdventureFantasy
3.6
381 pg
Cover of How to Read the Air

How to Read the Air

Dinaw Mengestu, 2010

4.0
320 pg
Cover of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land, 2019

Biography
3.8
272 pg

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