These are the books Barack Obama thinks you should read this summer.
As you likely already know, President Obama has pretty good taste in books. After all, he’s been a reader (and a writer) since long before he got into politics. “Whether you’re camped out on the beach or curled up on the couch on a rainy day, there’s nothing quite like sitting down with a great book in the summer,” the former President recently wrote on Facebook. “While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favorites—and over the years, it’s become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all. So without further ado, here are some books I’ve read recently. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.” Here’s his 2021 summer reading list (which Lit Hub, if you want to know, is very happy to co-sign):
David Diop, tr. Anna Moschovakis, At Night All Blood Is Black
Te-Ping Chen, Land Of Big Numbers
Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Benjamin Labatut, tr. Adrian Nathan West, When We Cease to Understand the World
Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water
Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water
Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
