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Books recommended by Barack Obama

Description: From a list compiled by Entertainment Weekly from Obama's interviews and public statements : http://ew.com/books/2017/01/18/barack-obama-book-recommendations/ and subsequent statements.
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1

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69,562 members

1,132 reviews

3.8

11 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, alex68, cej1027, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

24,913 members

1,426 reviews

½ 4.3

10 Members: hipdeep, dara85, MarthaJeanne, Cecrow, elkiedee, cej1027, Crazymamie, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,420 members

425 reviews

3.8

8 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, cej1027, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,660 members

641 reviews

3.9

9 Members: hipdeep, Cecrow, alex68, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,811 members

374 reviews

½ 3.6

8 Members: Cecrow, alex68, cej1027, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

by Gillian Flynn

21,127 members

1,525 reviews

3.9

7 Members: dara85, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

7

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,915 members

423 reviews

3.8

8 Members: alex68, cej1027, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

8

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

8,436 members

427 reviews

4

6 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707, TamaraKeller

9

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

by Katherine Boo

4,232 members

289 reviews

4.1

6 Members: MarthaJeanne, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, steller0707

10

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

17,214 members

835 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: dara85, alex68, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

11

5,432 members

207 reviews

4

5 Members: dara85, elkiedee, cej1027, neicybee, steller0707

12

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanagan

2,992 members

143 reviews

4

5 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707, TamaraKeller

13

by Herman Melville

34,037 members

519 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Cecrow, alex68, gypsysmom, plt, kara.shamy

14

by Toni Morrison

12,895 members

227 reviews

3.9

5 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, plt, steller0707, puffintopia

15

Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover

8,902 members

480 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

16

Harry Potter (Books 1-7)

by J. K. Rowling

12,201 members

173 reviews

½ 4.6

5 Members: Cecrow, cej1027, Crazymamie, ahef1963, kara.shamy

17

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,145 members

681 reviews

4.2

5 Members: Cecrow, alex68, gypsysmom, plt, ahef1963

18

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

7,809 members

178 reviews

4

5 Members: alex68, Crazymamie, plt, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Mohsin Hamid

3,413 members

217 reviews

3.8

5 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, plt, kara.shamy, steller0707

20

by Hilary Mantel

13,069 members

637 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee, Crazymamie, gypsysmom

21

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

3,695 members

248 reviews

3.9

5 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707, TamaraKeller

22

by Michelle Obama

7,704 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: Crazymamie, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707, TamaraKeller

23

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,300 members

287 reviews

4.2

5 Members: elkiedee, alex68, cej1027, plt, steller0707

24

by Toni Morrison

22,010 members

399 reviews

3.9

5 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

25

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

16,723 members

1,082 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, neicybee, steller0707

26

A Gentleman in Moscow

8,298 members

480 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: elkiedee, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707

27

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

4,198 members

356 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: cej1027, Crazymamie, steller0707, TamaraKeller

28

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

7,512 members

121 reviews

3.9

4 Members: MarthaJeanne, alex68, ahef1963, steller0707

29

by Marilynne Robinson

10,563 members

361 reviews

3.9

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

30

by Ralph Ellison

15,719 members

203 reviews

4

4 Members: elkiedee, alex68, plt, kara.shamy

31

5,843 members

266 reviews

4.1

3 Members: plt, steller0707, Noogawa

32

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

9,241 members

524 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: elkiedee, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, steller0707

33

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

2,787 members

124 reviews

4.2

4 Members: elkiedee, Crazymamie, gypsysmom, steller0707

34

by Brian Jacques

10,728 members

141 reviews

4

3 Members: Cecrow, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,194 members

175 reviews

3.9

4 Members: elkiedee, alex68, gypsysmom, steller0707

36

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3,681 members

185 reviews

4.1

3 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy, steller0707

37

by Naomi Alderman

4,371 members

231 reviews

3.8

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

38

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

3,355 members

66 reviews

3.8

3 Members: alex68, ahef1963, TamaraKeller

39

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

4,920 members

267 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: gypsysmom, plt, kara.shamy

40

The Three-Body Problem

7,721 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

41

by David McCullough

13,229 members

190 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, puffintopia

42

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7,310 members

351 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

43

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,252 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, steller0707

44

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3,438 members

47 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, plt

45

To the End of the Land

by David Grossman

1,411 members

62 reviews

4

3 Members: alex68, gypsysmom, plt

46

by Michael Ondaatje

1,939 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, plt, kara.shamy

47

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

10,439 members

122 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

48

Washington Black

2,131 members

131 reviews

3.9

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, steller0707

49

by Toni Morrison

7,350 members

96 reviews

3.8

2 Members: steller0707, puffintopia

50

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

11,265 members

357 reviews

4.2

2 Members: MarthaJeanne, ahef1963

51

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston

4,842 members

69 reviews

3.8

2 Members: steller0707, TamaraKeller

52

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

4,702 members

62 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, TamaraKeller

53

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

by Studs Terkel

2,060 members

18 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee

54

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev

by Dawnie Walton

590 members

23 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee

55

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,531 members

200 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

56

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,127 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alex68, gypsysmom

57

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

by Barbara Park

5,511 members

172 reviews

4

2 Members: plt, ahef1963

58

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,131 members

202 reviews

3.9

Member: Babelo

59

These Precious Days: Essays

by Ann Patchett

737 members

53 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee

60

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

653 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

61

by Bryan Washington

399 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

by Colm Tóibín

1,427 members

72 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, plt

63

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

3,697 members

200 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alex68, steller0707

64

by Sally Rooney

6,032 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom

65

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,540 members

122 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

66

1,419 members

71 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

67

The Lincoln Highway

2,857 members

149 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom

68

What Is the What

6,682 members

162 reviews

4.1

Member: MarthaJeanne

69

The Candy House

by Jennifer Egan

1,002 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: Babelo

70

A Grain of Wheat

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

903 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

1,108 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, steller0707

72

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

4,882 members

178 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63

by Taylor Branch

2,140 members

21 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: neicybee

74

The Post-American World

by Fareed Zakaria

2,043 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: MarthaJeanne

75

The Wealth of Nations

5,892 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: puffintopia

76

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

1,268 members

64 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

77

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

1,471 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: puffintopia

78

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,035 members

44 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

79

by Jonathan Franzen

2,144 members

73 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

80

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

1,358 members

31 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

81

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

by Mitch Landrieu

210 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: puffintopia

82

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

2,360 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: TamaraKeller

83

The Shadow of Sirius

by W. S. Merwin

316 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

84

2,634 members

112 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

85

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

10,988 members

221 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

86

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

4,967 members

66 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

87

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

9,577 members

227 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: kara.shamy

88

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling

2,898 members

99 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

89

Project Hail Mary

4,861 members

288 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

90

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

378 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

91

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

842 members

28 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: hipdeep

92

Collected Poems, 1948-1984

by Derek Walcott

510 members

3 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

93

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

by Stacy Schiff

380 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

94

In Dubious Battle

by John Steinbeck

2,310 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: Crazymamie

95

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

2,027 members

77 reviews

4

Member: plt

96

by Colson Whitehead

1,812 members

91 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

97

Things We Lost to the Water

282 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: plt

98

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

by Hisham Matar

605 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

99

The Orphan Master's Son

by Adam Johnson

3,809 members

278 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

100

by George Pelecanos

531 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee

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