Books Barack Obama has recommended

The books on eleven of the summer and year-end reading lists Barack Obama has shared since 2015, and the ones he took on holiday in 2011, which are marked as read.

91 books

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The best-known books on the list

All 91 books, by author

ACoach Wooden and Me · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A Little Devil in America · Hanif Abdurraqib
Leave the World Behind · Rumaan Alam
The Power · Naomi Alderman
CThe Shallows · Nicholas Carr
Silverview · John le Carré
School for Good Mothers · Jessamine Chan
Family Chao · Lan Samantha Chang
Land of Big Numbers · Te-Ping Chen
Grant · Ron Chernow
Mark Twain · Ron Chernow
Washington · Ron Chernow
Exhalation · Ted Chiang
Between the World and Me · Ta-Nehisi Coates
King of Ashes · S. A. Cosby
Razorblade Tears · S. A. Cosby
DWhy Liberalism Failed · Patrick Deneen
Rosarita · Anita Desai
Evicted · Matthew Desmond
At Night All Blood Is Black · David Diop
All the Light We Cannot See · Anthony Doerr
EThe Candy House · Jennifer Egan
Invisible Child · Andrea Elliott
A Marriage at Sea · Sophie Elmhirst
FBarbarian Days: A Surfing Life · William Finnegan
Crossroads · Jonathan Franzen
GJanesville · Amy Goldstein
Fates and Furies · Lauren Groff
Matrix · Lauren Groff
To the End of the Land · David Grossman (read)
HExit West · Mohsin Hamid
Sweetness of Water · Nathan Harris
The Girl on the Train · Paula Hawkins
Sirens' Call · Chris Hayes
Blood in the Garden · Chris Herring
IKlara and the Sun · Kazuo Ishiguro
JLab Girl · Hope Jahren
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois · Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter · Stephen Graham Jones
Rodin's debutante · Ward Just (read)
KEmpire of Pain · Patrick Radden Keefe
Audition · Katie Kitamura
Intimacies · Katie Kitamura
Why We're Polarized · Ezra Klein
The Sixth Extinction · Elizabeth Kolbert
Under a White Sky · Elizabeth Kolbert
LWhen We Cease to Understand the World · Benjamín Labatut
The Lowland · Jhumpa Lahiri
Maid · Stephanie Land
In the shadow of statues · Mitch Landrieu
Who is Government? · Michael Lewis
MH Is for Hawk · Helen Macdonald
Sea of Tranquility · Emily St. John Mandel
Wolf Hall · Hilary Mantel
Five-carat soul · James McBride
How to read the air · Dinaw Mengestu
Velvet Was the Night · Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The new geography of jobs · Enrico Moretti
Great Experiment · Yascha Mounk
Men Without Women · Haruki Murakami
NThings We Lost to the Water · Eric Nguyen
OInland · Téa Obreht
Aftershocks · Nadia Owusu
PThese Precious Days · Ann Patchett
RReading Genesis · Marilynne Robinson
SAll that is · James Salter
Basketball (and other things) · Shea Serrano
How the Word Is Passed · Clint Smith
Seveneves · Neal Stephenson
Anything is possible · Elizabeth Strout
TDying · Cory Taylor
Book of Records · Madeleine Thien
Abundance · Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
A Gentleman in Moscow · Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway · Amor Towles
VCutting for Stone · Abraham Verghese (read)
WFutureface : A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging · Alex Wagner
Final Revival of Opal and Nev · Dawnie Walton
Beautiful Country · Qian Julie Wang
Sing, Unburied, Sing · Jesmyn Ward
Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir
Harlem Shuffle · Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys · Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad · Colson Whitehead
Black Cake · Charmaine Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns · Isabel Wilkerson (read)
American Spy · Lauren Wilkinson
Mouth to Mouth · Antoine Wilson
The Bayou trilogy · Daniel Woodrell (read)
YTo Paradise · Hanya Yanagihara
ZCrying in H Mart · Michelle Zauner

Source: Barack Obama's reading lists, as reported by Literary Hub and PBS NewsHour