Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2019

In the midst of all the current impeachment madness, you might have forgotten that the United States of America once had a President who loves to read – Barack Obama.

In honour of what’s become a bit of a yearly tradition for the former President and author, Barack Obama has revealed his favourite books of the year on Twitter. His list includes National Book Award, Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners and nominees, including several that are firm favourites of the Booktopia team.

Read on to see which books the former U.S. President has read and loved this year!

Fiction

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter
• Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

Non-Fiction

• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Solitary by Albert Woodfox

Read any of these yourself? Tell us what you thought in the comments!

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Olivia Fricot

Olivia Fricot (she/her) is Booktopia's Senior Content Producer and editor of the Booktopian blog. She has too many plants and not enough bookshelves, and you can usually find her reading, baking, or talking to said plants. She is pro-Oxford comma.

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