Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2020

by Barack Obama
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17 books
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by a certain 44th president. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.
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See the source list and commentary at twitter.com

Homeland Elegies

A Novel
Ayad Akhtar, 2020

Jack

MARILYNNE. ROBINSON, 2020

Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, 2020

The Splendid and the Vile

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson, 2020

Luster

Raven Leilani, 2020

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

A Novel
C Pam Zhang, 2020

Long Bright River

Liz Moore, 2020

Memorial Drive

A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey, 2020

Twilight of Democracy

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum, 2020

Deacon King Kong

James McBride, 2020

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, 2020

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett, 2020

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel, 2020

Hidden Valley Road

Robert Kolker, 2020

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Kawai Strong Washburn, 2020

Missionaries

Phil Klay, 2020