Obama's reading list

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
    4.7
  2. The God of the Woods Liz Moore
    4
  3. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.7
  4. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
    3.6
  5. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Anthony Doerr
    4.2
  6. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.6
  7. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4
  8. John Adams David McCullough
    4.2
  9. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert
    4.3
  10. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, Part I - 1954-63 Taylor Branch
    4.7
  11. These Precious Days: Essays Ann Patchett
    4.6
  12. The Candy House: A Novel Jennifer Egan
    3.9
  13. Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
    3.8
  14. Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
    4
  15. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry
    4.3
  16. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    4.2
  17. An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones
    3.9
  18. Asymmetry: A Novel Lisa Halliday
    3.5
  19. Arthur Ashe: A Life Raymond Arsenault
    3.4
  20. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight
    4.1
  21. Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
    4
  22. La escuela de las buenas madres Jessamine Chan
    2.8
  23. When We Cease to Understand the World: Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Benjamín Labatut
    4
  24. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.5
  25. James: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Percival Everett
    4.5
  26. The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
    3
  27. Help Wanted: A Novel Adelle Waldman
  28. Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
    4.1
  29. Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
    4.1
  30. Mijn verhaal: Becoming Michelle Obama
    4.3
  31. Seveneves Neal Stephenson
    3.9
  32. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World Melinda French Gates
    4.5
  33. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4.1
  34. ¿Por qué ha fracasado el liberalismo? Patrick Deneen
    3
  35. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
    3.7
  36. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
    4.1
  37. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
    4.3
  38. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For Susan Rice
    3.7
  39. Exhalation Ted Chiang
    4.3
  40. The Underground Railroad: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Colson Whitehead
    4.1
  41. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power
    4.4
  42. Nuts To You Lynne Rae Perkins
    3.2
  43. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell
    3.7
  44. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
    4.4
  45. Aftershocks Nadia Owusu
    4.1
  46. We leven in water Jess Walter
  47. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Natasha Trethewey
    4.3
  48. The Glass Hotel: The Haunting Novel from the Author of Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
    3.7
  49. The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
    3.4
  50. All That Is James Salter
    3.5