Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022

"I always look forward to sharing my lists of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you.   First up, here are some of the books I read and enjoyed this year."
Updated January 3, 2023
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Sea of tranquility
Mandel, Emily St. John
SELECTED AS ONE OF THE OPRAH DAILY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso performance and an enormously exciting offering...
Trust
Díaz, Hernán
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE "Buzzy and enthralling ...A...
Black cake
Wilkerson, Charmaine
Crossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a powerful story of love and loss, kinship and separation, heartache and hope, spanning sixty years in the life of one family THE INSTANT NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **Featured on Barack...
The candy house
Egan, Jennifer
From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad--an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories...
An Immense World: ; How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Yong, Ed.
'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' The Times, Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly...
The school for good mothers
Chan, Jessamine
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK 'A taut and propulsive take on the cult of motherhood and the notion of what makes a good mother. Destined to be feminist classic - it kept me up at night' PANDORA SYKES...
The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
Obama, Michelle
Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly. How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? ...
Ducks : two years in the oil sands
Beaton, Kate
A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023! "An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival."--Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times...
Liberation Day stories
Saunders, George
The revolutionary Samuel Adams
Schiff, Stacy
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the...
Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak
BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021 "Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those...
The furrows : an elegy
Serpell, Namwali
***ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022*** ***NYT BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR*** *** GUARDIAN BEST FICTION OF 2022*** I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her...

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