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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

Poverty, by America

How to Say Babylon

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

books your pretentious friend has heard of

Chain-Gang All-Stars

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Reads

by lucyPagebound

Sourced from lists compiled by librarians and definitely open to additions! Comment recs below.

All You Have to Do

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Page & Perspective

Non-fiction centered around American History

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

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