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Barack Obama

Barack Obama's Summer 2021 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 2021

11 books

Cover of At Night All Blood is Black

At Night All Blood is Black

Anna Moschovakis, 2018

Historical
3.9
145 pg
Cover of Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Te-Ping Chen, 2020

Fantasy
4.0
236 pg
Cover of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019

Non-FictionBiography+1
4.6
560 pg
Cover of Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir, 2021

Sci-FiAdventure+1
4.5
476 pg
Cover of When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

Adrian Nathan West, 2019

Sci-FiScience+1
4.0
192 pg
Cover of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert, 2021

Science
4.1
257 pg
Cover of Things We Lost to the Water

Things We Lost to the Water

Eric Nguyen, 2021

4.1
305 pg
Cover of Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam, 2020

Sci-FiThriller+1
3.2
241 pg
Cover of Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro, 2019

Sci-FiFantasy+1
3.8
320 pg
Cover of The Sweetness of Water

The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris, 2021

Historical
3.9
400 pg
Cover of Intimacies

Intimacies

Traci Kato-Kiriyama, 2021

3.7
pg

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