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Barack Obama's favorite books of 2025
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- 01Paper Girl - Beth Macy
- 02Flashlight, Susan Choi
- 03We the People (Jill Lepore)
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📚Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024
his own year-end list, ten titles, posted that December. I didn't add anything to it
01
The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)
not on my list normally, I don't read parenting sociology, but this is the one everyone quoted at me this spring
02
Intermezzo (Sally Rooney)
03
Patriot (Alexei Navalny)
the memoir he was finishing when he died in prison. reads different because of that
04
Orbital (Samantha Harvey)
won the Booker that same year. slim book, big scale
05
The Anthropologists (Ayşegül Savaş)
06
Stolen Pride (Arlie Russell Hochschild)
sociology, not politics exactly. start here if the news cycle has you tired of politics books
07
In Ascension (Martin MacInnes)
08
Growth (Daniel Susskind)
economics book on his list every year it feels like. this one's readable without an econ degree
09
Someone Like Us (Dinaw Mengestu)
10
The Work of Art (Adam Moss)
the one I'd hand to a non-reader off this list. interviews with artists about their worst drafts
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