Barack Obama

Barack Obama's Summer 2024 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 2024

14 books

James

Percival Everett, 2024

AdventureComedy+1

4.3

320 pg

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib, 2024

Science

4.5

352 pg

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer, 2024

HistoricalNon-Fiction+1

4.4

545 pg

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson, 2024

Classics

4.0

344 pg

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel, 2024

Children's

3.7

225 pg

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore, 2024

MysteryThriller+1

3.9

490 pg

Beautiful Days: Stories

Zach Williams, 2024

3.5

183 pg

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar, 2024

4.1

337 pg

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko, 2024

Sci-Fi

3.5

304 pg

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley, 2024

RomanceSci-Fi+1

3.6

352 pg

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz, 2024

Non-FictionHistorical

4.1

373 pg

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

Richard V. Reeves, 2022

Non-FictionScience

4.0

242 pg

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides, 2024

BiographyAdventure+1

4.3

408 pg

Help Wanted

Adelle Waldman, 2024

3.8

275 pg