# Barack Obama's summer reading list 2019

The summer reading list Barack Obama shared in August 2019, including a tribute to the work of Toni Morrison, who had died days earlier.

- 9 votes · 12 items
- Sep 17, 2019 · leitora.curioso
- https://even.best/en/l/1659/barack-obama-s-summer-reading-list-2019

## Top 12

1. **Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1977 novel.
2. **The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Novel about a 1960s Florida reform school.
3. **Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Historical novel about Thomas Cromwell.
4. **American Spy — Lauren Wilkinson** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Cold War spy novel.
5. **Inland — Téa Obreht** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A western novel.
6. **How to Read the Air — Dinaw Mengestu** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Novel of the son of Ethiopian immigrants.
7. **The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Her first novel, 1970.
8. **Exhalation — Ted Chiang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Science fiction stories.
9. **Maid — Stephanie Land** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir of a cleaner and single mother.
10. **Beloved — Toni Morrison** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1987 novel, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
11. **Men Without Women — Haruki Murakami** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Short stories.
12. **Lab Girl — Hope Jahren** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Memoir of a plant scientist.

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