Barack Obama's favourite books of 2023
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride · The MANIAC — Benjamín Labatut · Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond. (Updated Jan 22, 2024.)
The 15 books Barack Obama shared as his favourites of the year on 22 December 2023, mixing fiction, history and non-fiction.
Automatically translated (original in Türkçe). See the original
Top 15
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store — James McBride
Novel. A Pennsylvania neighbourhood in the 1930s.
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2
The MANIAC — Benjamín Labatut
Novel. John von Neumann and the roots of AI.
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3
Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond
Non-fiction. The causes of poverty in the US.
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4
How to Say Babylon — Safiya Sinclair
Memoir. Growing up with a strict Rastafarian father in Jamaica.
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5
The Wager — David Grann
History. A wrecked British warship and mutiny in the 1740s.
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6
Chip War — Chris Miller
Non-fiction. The global race for the microchip.
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7
The Vaster Wilds — Lauren Groff
Novel. A girl fleeing into the wilderness in colonial times.
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8
Humanly Possible — Sarah Bakewell
Non-fiction. Seven hundred years of humanism.
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9
King: A Life — Jonathan Eig
A biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
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10
The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese
Novel. Three generations of a family in Kerala.
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11
The Best Minds — Jonathan Rosen
Memoir. The author's childhood friend lost to mental illness.
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12
All the Sinners Bleed — S. A. Cosby
Crime novel. A Black sheriff in Virginia.
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13
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory — Tim Alberta
Non-fiction. American evangelicalism and politics.
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14
Some People Need Killing — Patricia Evangelista
Reporting on the drug war in the Philippines.
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15
This Other Eden — Paul Harding
Novel. A mixed-race island community off the coast of Maine.
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Comments (5)
The MANIAC, Labatut çok etkileyici.
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store çok sıcak bir roman.
Poverty, by America, herkes okumalı.
The Wager, gerçek bir macera hikâyesi, harika.
Obama'nın listeleri hep çok iyi.