# Barack Obama's favourite books of 2021

The 24 books on the favourite-reads list Barack Obama shared on 17 December 2021, including David Diop's At Night All Blood Is Black.

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- Feb 17, 2022 · Lucas
- https://even.best/en/l/1287/barack-obama-s-favourite-books-of-2021

## Top 24

1. **Matrix — Lauren Groff** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about a 12th-century abbey and Marie de France.
2. **How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Slavery through American historic sites.
3. **The Final Revival of Opal & Nev — Dawnie Walton** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about a 1970s rock duo.
4. **The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Road novel set in 1954 America.
5. **Invisible Child — Andrea Elliott** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reporting on a homeless girl in New York.
6. **Harlem Shuffle — Colson Whitehead** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.
7. **Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel linking Constantinople, Idaho and a spaceship.
8. **These Precious Days — Ann Patchett** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essays.
9. **Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Japanese Breakfast singer's memoir of her mother.
10. **Aftershocks — Nadia Owusu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir.
11. **Crossroads — Jonathan Franzen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A pastor's family in 1971 Illinois.
12. **The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A family saga in Georgia.
13. **Beautiful Country — Qian Julie Wang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir of an undocumented childhood in New York.
14. **At Night All Blood Is Black — David Diop** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Senegalese soldier in the Great War; written in French.
15. **Land of Big Numbers — Te-Ping Chen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stories of contemporary China.
16. **Empire of Pain — Patrick Radden Keefe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Sackler family and OxyContin.
17. **Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Science fiction: a teacher alone in space.
18. **When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stories about 20th-century scientists; written in Spanish.
19. **Under a White Sky — Elizabeth Kolbert** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Humans fixing the problems they made in nature.
20. **Things We Lost to the Water — Eric Nguyen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Vietnamese family in New Orleans.
21. **Leave the World Behind — Rumaan Alam** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A holiday weekend during a mysterious blackout.
22. **Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An Artificial Friend observes a family.
23. **The Sweetness of Water — Nathan Harris** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Georgia just after the Civil War.
24. **Intimacies — Katie Kitamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An interpreter at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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