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Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
184 books — 156 voters
Operation Paperclip by Annie JacobsenBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Virus by Janelle DillerAngels Fallen by Francis SmithArea 51 by Annie Jacobsen
Government Cover-ups
349 books — 103 voters

Dreams from My Father by Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaRenegade by Richard WolffeShowdown by David CornThe Promise by Jonathan Alter
President Obama (fiction and nonfiction)
87 books — 31 voters
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadWolf Hall by Hilary MantelNormal People by Sally RooneyThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
President Obama's Favorite Books 2019
37 books — 22 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
President Obama's Reading List (2009-2017)
100 books — 19 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
85 Books Barack Obama Has Recommended During His Presidency
87 books — 16 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisPlainsong by Kent HarufThe Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
Obama Reading List Since in Office - Through Dec. 31, 2010
25 books — 11 voters
Rethinking Money by Bernard A. LietaerThe Great Inflation and Its Aftermath by Robert J. SamuelsonThe Chinese Banker by Dustin HillBack to Work by Bill ClintonThe Next American Revolutionary War by L.B. Sommer
Books to Read While Falling Off the Financial Cliff
13 books — 11 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Every book Barack Obama has recommended during his presidency
85 books — 11 voters
Invisible Child by Andrea ElliottThese Precious Days by Ann PatchettThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne JeffersProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Barack Obama's Favorite Books 2021
24 books — 11 voters

The World as It Is by Ben RhodesObama by Pete SouzaPromise Me, Dad by Joe BidenEvery Day is Extra by John KerryThe Audacity to Win by David Plouffe
Obama's Alumni
24 books — 8 voters
A Full Life by Jimmy CarterPersonal Memoirs by Ulysses S. GrantThe Autobiography of Harry S. Truman by Harry TrumanThe Memoirs of Herbert Hoover by Herbert HooverThe Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge
US Presidents: Memoirs
25 books — 6 voters

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping ChenEmpire of Pain by Patrick Radden KeefeProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
Obama 2021 Summer List
11 books — 6 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Broken Ladder by Keith PayneAmerican Prison by Shane BauerThe World As It Is by Ben RhodesWhy Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
2018 Obama Favorites
28 books — 5 voters

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBridePoverty, by America by Matthew DesmondHow to Say Babylon by Safiya SinclairThe Wager by David GrannThe Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023
15 books — 5 voters
His Excellency by Joseph J. EllisJohn Adams by David McCulloughCoolidge by Amity ShlaesDays of Fire by Peter BakerThomas Jefferson by R.B. Bernstein
US Presidents: Biographies
43 books — 4 voters

Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair by Larry SinclairBig Brother and the Holding Company by Steve WeissmanAbraham Africanus I. His Secret Life, Revealed under the Mesm... by Alexander del MarThe Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth by Finis L. BatesThe Trump Prophecies by Mark Taylor
•None Of The Above
104 books — 3 voters
Becoming by Michelle ObamaAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmerican Prison by Shane BauerFeel Free by Zadie SmithFrederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2018
30 books — 3 voters

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeHidden Valley Road by Robert KolkerThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana ZuboffThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelWashington Black by Esi Edugyan
Obama's Recommendations All Time
138 books — 3 voters
James by Percival EverettThere's Always This Year by Hanif AbdurraqibEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan BlitzerReading Genesis by Marilynne RobinsonHeadshot by Rita Bullwinkel
Barack Obama's 2024 Summer Reading List
14 books — 3 voters

The Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsBarbarian Days by William FinneganThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldSeveneves by Neal Stephenson
President Obama's Summer Reading List 2016
5 books — 2 voters
Grant by Ron ChernowFive-Carat Soul by James McBrideSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Power by Naomi AldermanEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Obama's 2017 Favorites
12 books — 2 voters

Evicted by Matthew DesmondHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
Books Rec'd by Obama
100 books — 2 voters
The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinCommon Wealth by Jeffrey D. SachsLincoln by Fred KaplanThe Defining Moment by Jonathan AlterFDR by Jean Edward Smith
Obama Reading List
100 books — 2 voters

West Winging It by Pat CunnaneWest Wingers by Gautam RaghavanWho Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa MastromonacoUndiplomatic by Deesha DyerYes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
Best Books From The Obama Administration
19 books — 2 voters
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 Vols by Abraham LincolnParting the Waters by Taylor BranchThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinAndy Grove by Richard S. Tedlow
WIRED Magazine - President Obama's Essential Reads
10 books — 1 voter

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleSelf-Reliance by Ralph Waldo EmersonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonParting the Waters by Taylor BranchGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Obama cumulative reading list
31 books — 1 voter
The Post-American World by Fareed ZakariaTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinCollected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek WalcottGhost Wars by Steve CollCommon Wealth by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Obama's Reads in the WH
69 books — 1 voter

A New Kind of Liberty by Danielle Noel Gibeson
Creative Non-Fiction
1 book — 1 voter
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonLangston Hughes by Langston HughesAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Authors mentioned in "A Promised Land"
19 books — 1 voter

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