Barack Obama's summer reading list 2019
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison · The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead · Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel. (Updated Sep 17, 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.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 12
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Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison
1977 novel.
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2
The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead
Novel about a 1960s Florida reform school.
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3
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
Historical novel about Thomas Cromwell.
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4
American Spy — Lauren Wilkinson
A Cold War spy novel.
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5
Inland — Téa Obreht
A western novel.
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6
How to Read the Air — Dinaw Mengestu
Novel of the son of Ethiopian immigrants.
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7
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
Her first novel, 1970.
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8
Exhalation — Ted Chiang
Science fiction stories.
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9
Maid — Stephanie Land
Memoir of a cleaner and single mother.
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10
Beloved — Toni Morrison
1987 novel, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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11
Men Without Women — Haruki Murakami
Short stories.
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12
Lab Girl — Hope Jahren
Memoir of a plant scientist.
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