30 Books Read by Barack Obama
The books that helped Barack Obama build perspective long before they made his public lists. We collected the reads that show how he thinks when he’s learning, questioning and grounding himself.
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A Marriage at Sea
William Clark Russell · 2024
Rosarita
Anita Desai · 2025
King of Ashes A Novel
S. A. Cosby · 2025
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
The Work of Art
Adam Moss · 2024
Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu
Growth
Daniel Susskind · 2024
In Ascension
Martin MacInnes · 2023
Stolen Pride
Arlie Russell Hochschild · 2024
The Anthropologists
Aysegül Savas · 2025
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2023
Patriot A Memoir
Alexei Navalny · 2024
Intermezzo A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2024
The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt · 2025
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson · 2024
There's Always This Year On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib · 2024
This Other Eden: A Novel
Paul Harding · 2023
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta · 2024
All the Sinners Bleed A Novel
S. A. Cosby · 2023
The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen · 2023
The Covenant of Water A Novel
Abraham Verghese · 2023
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig · 2023
Humanly Possible Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Sarah Bakewell · 2023
The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff · 2023
Chip War The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller · 2022
The Wager A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann · 2023
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair · 2023
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond · 2023
The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut · 2024
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store A Novel
James McBride · 2023
