Books Recommended by Barack Obama
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen
Source: "Offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel." - Barack Obama
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2017 list.
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
Source: "A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Barack Obama
Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: On the "favorite books" section of Barack Obama's Facebook profile.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Source: Barack Obama's "2016 Summer Reading List."
Florida
Lauren Groff
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
The Broken Ladder
Keith Payne
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Source: On the "favorite books" section of Barack Obama's Facebook profile.
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Source: Barack Obama's "2016 Summer Reading List."
The Return
Hisham Matar
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2017 list.
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Dying
Cory Taylor
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2017 list.
Educated
Tara Westover
Source: "A remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho." - Barack Obama
The World as It Is
Ben Rhodes
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
Source: "Melinda tells the stories of the inspiring people she’s met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention." - Barack Obama
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Source: "A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple." - Barack Obama
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
Tough Love
Susan Rice
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
Source: Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019 list.
