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Barack Obama's favorite books

by lucyPagebound

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Maniac

Poverty, by America

How to Say Babylon

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Maniac

Booker Prize Eligible for 2026

Benbecula

Son of Nobody

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction

Yesteryear

Benbecula

Son of Nobody

Literary Climate Axiety

Books that use climate change as a major force or backdrop.

All the Water in the World

The Road

Migrations

Private Rites

All the Water in the World

The Road

Barack Obama's summer 2026 reading list

Seek Immediate Shelter

Vigil

Cool Machine: A Novel (The Harlem Trilogy Book 3)

One Sun Only: Stories

Seek Immediate Shelter

Vigil

Life in the Anthropocene

by theladybiologist

Eco-fiction that explores the impact of a changing climate and human influence on our planet. Both speculative and literary included!

Wild Dark Shore

Once There Were Wolves

Parable of the Sower

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

Wild Dark Shore

Once There Were Wolves

Purple Reader

Range

A Tale for the Time Being

Tortilla Flat

History of Wolves

Range

A Tale for the Time Being

Books from NPR

by beththebiblio

mainly from Book of the Day, but any NPR podcast counts

Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

The Infamous Gilberts

Vigil

Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

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