# Barack Obama's summer reading list 2025

The ten books on Barack Obama's 2025 summer reading list, published by the Obama Foundation: biography, novellas, horror and non-fiction.

- 2 votes · 10 items
- Dec 4, 2025 · Sofia Pellegrini
- https://even.best/en/l/1661/barack-obama-s-summer-reading-list-2025

## Top 10

1. **Rosarita — Anita Desai** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Novella.
2. **Mark Twain — Ron Chernow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Biography.
3. **The Book of Records — Madeleine Thien** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
4. **Abundance — Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Political non-fiction.
5. **King of Ashes — S. A. Cosby** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime novel.
6. **A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — True story of a shipwrecked couple.
7. **Audition — Katie Kitamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
8. **Who Is Government? — ed. Michael Lewis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essays about public servants.
9. **The Sirens' Call — Chris Hayes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on the attention economy.
10. **The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Horror and Native American history.

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