Barack Obama’s 2023 Summer Reading List

It’s always fun to see what the former President is planning on reading over the summer. Here’s his full list:

• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond.
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane.
• King: A Life by Jonathan Eig.
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.
• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby.
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.
• What Napoleon Could Not Do by DK Nnuro.
• The Wager by David Grann.
• Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison.

I’ve read The Wager (so good!) and have been wanting to dig into Matthew Desmond’s book but most of the rest of these are new to me.

Right now, I’m reading Hugh Howey’s Wool (after inhaling the first season of Silo) and American Prometheus (after seeing Oppenheimer last night) — I’m sensing a pattern here…

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