# Barack Obama's favourite books of 2025

The 21 books Barack Obama picked as his favourites of the year on 22 December 2025, including new novels by Kiran Desai, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan.

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- Mar 4, 2026 · bookworm77
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## Top 21

1. **Paper Girl — Beth Macy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction about the author's Ohio hometown.
2. **Flashlight — Susan Choi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about a family and a vanished father.
3. **We the People — Jill Lepore** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A history of the US Constitution.
4. **The Wilderness — Angela Flournoy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about five friends over twenty years.
5. **There Is No Place for Us — Brian Goldstone** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reporting on the working homeless in the US.
6. **North Sun — Ethan Rutherford** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about a 19th-century whaling ship.
7. **1929 — Andrew Ross Sorkin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 1929 stock market crash.
8. **The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel of two young Indians between India and the US.
9. **Dead and Alive — Zadie Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essays.
10. **What We Can Know — Ian McEwan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel moving between our time and a future England.
11. **The Look — Michelle Obama** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On style and fashion in the White House years.
12. **Mark Twain — Ron Chernow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A biography.
13. **The Book of Records — Madeleine Thien** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
14. **King of Ashes — S. A. Cosby** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime novel.
15. **Rosarita — Anita Desai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novella about a young woman in Mexico.
16. **Audition — Katie Kitamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel about an actress and a young man.
17. **The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Horror novel.
18. **Abundance — Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On building more in America.
19. **A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A couple adrift after a whale sank their boat.
20. **Who Is Government? — ed. Michael Lewis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essays about public servants.
21. **The Sirens' Call — Chris Hayes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On the attention economy.

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