President Obama's summer reading list

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President Obama's summer reading list

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1lampbane
set. 30, 2011, 6:10 pm

Just wanted to point out this article because it lists some of the books President Obama has been reading while on vacation in Martha's Vineyard:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/19/news/la-pn-obama-books-20110819

I'm thinking that if ever got a peek at his personal library, it might make for one interesting catalog.

2theapparatus
set. 30, 2011, 6:51 pm

We've talked about it at least once:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/122429

Could have sworn that we were discussing a legacy library for this but maybe that was just in passing as I can;t find it right off.

3benjclark
oct. 1, 2011, 11:46 am

We also discuss the books of the *living* over at Other People's Libraries http://www.librarything.com/groups/otherpeopleslibrarie

4jbd1
oct. 1, 2011, 11:50 am

>3 benjclark: - That's where we are :-)

5benjclark
oct. 1, 2011, 11:54 am

D'oh! Thought I was in Legacy Libraries. Ah, the addled brain of an overexerted road warrior just returned home to find the disappointment of not winning any Early Reviewer books... Odysseus has nothing on me.

6lampbane
oct. 1, 2011, 3:31 pm

It's okay, but I did make sure to check I was in the right group before posting. :)

I just found this post, which I guess should be updated for 2011:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/122581

7benjclark
des. 10, 2015, 11:11 am

When we start looking for the Obamas' books to catalog in the distant future, well want this note:
http://www.people.com/article/barack-obama-michelle-obama-favorite-songs-movies-...

10benjclark
oct. 8, 2019, 3:18 pm

A wonderful roundup of several years of recommended reading lists from Barack Obama:
https://bookriot.com/2019/10/08/obama-book-recommendations

11Cynfelyn
Editat: des. 29, 2019, 5:36 pm

Barack Obama has tweeted his favourites and recommendations for 2019:

Favourites:
Shoshana Zuboff, The age of surveillance capitalism
William Dalrymple, The anarchy : the relentless rise of the East India Company
Casey Cep, Furious hours : murder, fraud and the last trial of Harper Lee
Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, woman, other
David Treuer, The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present
Jenny Odell, How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy
Valeria Luiselli, Lost children archive
Bryan Washington, Lot : stories
Sally Rooney, Normal people
Adam Johnson, The orphan master's son
Sarah M. Broom, The yellow house
Patrick Radden Keefe, Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland
Albert Woodfox, Solitary
Ben Lerner, The Topeka school
Jia Tolentino, Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion
Susan Choi, Trust exercise
Jess Walter, We live in water : stories

For the sports fan:
Jim Rooney, A different way to win
Andre Iguodala, The sixth man

Recommended earlier in the year:
Lauren Wilkinson, American spy
Samantha Power, The education of an idealist
Ted Chiang, Exhalation
Valerie Jarrett, Finding my voice
Sarah Smarsh, Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
Dinaw Mengestu, How to read the air
Tea Obreht, Inland
Hope Jahren, Lab girl
Stephanie Land, Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
Haruki Murakami, Men without women
Melinda Gates, The moment of lift
Colson Whitehead, The nickel boys
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
W. S. Merwin, The shadow of Sirius
Nicholas Carr, The shallows
Toni Morrison, Collected works
Susan Rice, Tough love : my story of the things worth fighting for
Isabel Wilkerson, The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

ETA touchstones in the light of >12 lilithcat:. Thanks.