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Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022
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"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
Emily St. John Mandel
Paper Book
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...
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
Paper Book
WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller Trust by Hernan Diaz is a sweeping, unpredicatable novel about power, wealth and truth, told by four unique, interlocking voices and set against the backdrop of...
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Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
Paper Book
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...
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The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Paper Book
From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.It's 2010....
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
Paper Book
'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...
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The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. They'd been up since four am. ...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama
Paper Book
The powerful, insightful follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In her inspiring follow-up to Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in...
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARDS FOR BEST MEMOIR AND BEST WRITER/ARTIST* 'A vast and complex tapestry that captures the humanity of people... it shimmers with grace' ALISON BECHDEL, author of FUN HOME Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling...
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Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders
Paper Book
Named a book of the year 2022 by the Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, BBC and Waterstones'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny...
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Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Paper Book
'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles FodenRestless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen,...
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The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
Paper Book
I don't want to tell you what happened; I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they are alone together, there is an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother is...
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