Obama's reading list

  1. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4.7
  2. Els nois de la Nickel Colson Whitehead
    3
  3. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
    3.6
  4. Nefes Ted Chiang
    4.3
  5. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Anthony Doerr
    4.2
  6. Moby Dick - Beyaz Balina Herman Melville
    4.2
  7. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.6
  8. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4
  9. John Adams David McCullough
    4.2
  10. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert
    4.3
  11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
    4.7
  12. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, Part I - 1954-63 Taylor Branch
    4.7
  13. Atmacanın A'sı Helen Macdonald
    4
  14. These Precious Days: Essays Ann Patchett
    4.6
  15. The School for Good Mothers: A Novel Jessamine Chan
    3.7
  16. The Candy House: A Novel Jennifer Egan
    3.9
  17. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
    4.5
  18. Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
    3.8
  19. Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel
    4
  20. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry
    4.3
  21. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
    4.1
  22. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    4.2
  23. An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones
    3.9
  24. A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul
    3.4
  25. Asymmetry: A Novel Lisa Halliday
    3.5
  26. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
    4.1
  27. Arthur Ashe: A Life Raymond Arsenault
    3.4
  28. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight
    4.1
  29. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Sarah Smarsh
    4
  30. La escuela de las buenas madres Jessamine Chan
    2.8
  31. When We Cease to Understand the World: Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Benjamín Labatut
    4
  32. The God of the Woods Liz Moore
    4
  33. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.5
  34. James: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Percival Everett
    4.5
  35. The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
    3
  36. Help Wanted: A Novel Adelle Waldman
  37. Headshot Rita Bullwinkel
    4.1
  38. Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
    4.1
  39. Mijn verhaal: Becoming Michelle Obama
    4.3
  40. Seveneves Neal Stephenson
    3.9
  41. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World Melinda French Gates
    4.5
  42. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4.1
  43. ¿Por qué ha fracasado el liberalismo? Patrick Deneen
    3
  44. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
    3.7
  45. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
    4.1
  46. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
    4.3
  47. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For Susan Rice
    3.7
  48. Exhalation Ted Chiang
    4.3
  49. The Nickel Boys: the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
    4.2
  50. The Underground Railroad: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Colson Whitehead
    4.1