# Barack Obama's favourite books of 2018

Twenty of the books Barack Obama included in his list of favourite reads of 2018, published on 28 December 2018. A mix of fiction, memoir and non-fiction.

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- Oct 8, 2022 · marcapaginas_gdl
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## Top 20

1. **Becoming — Michelle Obama** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The former First Lady's memoir; he put it first.
2. **An American Marriage — Tayari Jones** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Novel. A marriage broken by a wrongful conviction.
3. **Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mandela's autobiography.
4. **Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A 2013 novel about a Nigerian woman in America.
5. **A Grain of Wheat — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Classic novel about Kenyan independence.
6. **The Largesse of the Sea Maiden — Denis Johnson** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Posthumous short stories.
7. **Educated — Tara Westover** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir of a woman raised without schooling in Idaho.
8. **Factfulness — Hans Rosling** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction: why the world is better than we think.
9. **A House for Mr. Biswas — V. S. Naipaul** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A 1961 novel.
10. **How Democracies Die — Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Political non-fiction.
11. **The Return — Hisham Matar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir of searching for his father in Libya.
12. **Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A 1958 novel.
13. **Warlight — Michael Ondaatje** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A novel of post-war London.
14. **Why Liberalism Failed — Patrick J. Deneen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Political non-fiction.
15. **The World as It Is — Ben Rhodes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A memoir of the Obama White House by his adviser.
16. **American Prison — Shane Bauer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A reporter goes undercover in a private prison.
17. **Asymmetry — Lisa Halliday** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A novel in two parts.
18. **Feel Free — Zadie Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essays.
19. **Florida — Lauren Groff** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Short stories.
20. **Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom — David W. Blight** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A biography of the abolitionist.

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