# Barack Obama's favourite books of 2023

The 15 books Barack Obama shared as his favourites of the year on 22 December 2023, mixing fiction, history and non-fiction.

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- Jan 22, 2024 · bingewatcher_slow
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## Top 15

1. **The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel. A Pennsylvania neighbourhood in the 1930s.
2. **The MANIAC — Benjamín Labatut** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel. John von Neumann and the roots of AI.
3. **Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction. The causes of poverty in the US.
4. **How to Say Babylon — Safiya Sinclair** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir. Growing up with a strict Rastafarian father in Jamaica.
5. **The Wager — David Grann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — History. A wrecked British warship and mutiny in the 1740s.
6. **Chip War — Chris Miller** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction. The global race for the microchip.
7. **The Vaster Wilds — Lauren Groff** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel. A girl fleeing into the wilderness in colonial times.
8. **Humanly Possible — Sarah Bakewell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction. Seven hundred years of humanism.
9. **King: A Life — Jonathan Eig** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
10. **The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel. Three generations of a family in Kerala.
11. **The Best Minds — Jonathan Rosen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir. The author's childhood friend lost to mental illness.
12. **All the Sinners Bleed — S. A. Cosby** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime novel. A Black sheriff in Virginia.
13. **The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory — Tim Alberta** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction. American evangelicalism and politics.
14. **Some People Need Killing — Patricia Evangelista** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reporting on the drug war in the Philippines.
15. **This Other Eden — Paul Harding** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel. A mixed-race island community off the coast of Maine.

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