Obama Reads

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Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,945 members
216 reviews
4.2
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The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
by Dawnie Walton
943 members
43 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,280 members
609 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
14,962 members
266 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
5,609 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,430 members
93 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49,713 members
780 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,409 members
462 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Aftershocks: A Memoir
by Nadia Owusu
337 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,362 members
460 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,864 members
73 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
4,967 members
284 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Collected Poems, 1948-1984
by Derek Walcott
594 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
8,607 members
147 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
21,849 members
1,189 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever! (Books 1-4)
by Barbara Park
600 members
21 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop
1,031 members
48 reviews
3.8
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Heart of Darkness / Youth / The End of the Tether
by Joseph Conrad
1,417 members
12 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,727 members
206 reviews
4
2 Members
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
5,020 members
308 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,447 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
by Qian Julie Wang
828 members
41 reviews
4.1
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
1,894 members
74 reviews
4
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
4,682 members
152 reviews
4
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
1,843 members
52 reviews
½ 4.5
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Intimacies
by Katie Kitamura
928 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott
543 members
15 reviews
½ 4.6
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,544 members
308 reviews
3.8
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Land of Big Numbers: Stories
by Te-Ping Chen
384 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
3,141 members
127 reviews
3.9
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
2,261 members
112 reviews
3.8
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,425 members
204 reviews
4.1
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1,557 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
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Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
495 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
785 members
27 reviews
4.1
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When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
1,974 members
80 reviews
4
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
2,226 members
85 reviews
½ 4.5
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
3,118 members
161 reviews
½ 3.4
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
12,904 members
564 reviews
½ 4.3
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These Precious Days
by Ann Patchett
1,268 members
76 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
1,284 members
40 reviews
4.1
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by Hanif Abdurraqib
606 members
18 reviews
½ 4.5
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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
1,484 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
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Velvet Was the Night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
1,215 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
by Yascha Mounk
120 members
2 reviews
3.2
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3,743 members
66 reviews
½ 4.5
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
11,279 members
243 reviews
½ 4.4
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
2,799 members
158 reviews
3.9
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
12,513 members
531 reviews
3.8
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,574 members
343 reviews
4.2
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
by Melinda Gates
1,041 members
41 reviews
4.1
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
4,580 members
184 reviews
4.1
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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
5,817 members
294 reviews
3.8
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David W. Blight
1,530 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
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The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes
569 members
13 reviews
4
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,427 members
231 reviews
4
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Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence
by Max Tegmark
1,316 members
30 reviews
3.9
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H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
5,244 members
305 reviews
3.8
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,770 members
619 reviews
3.8
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by Studs Terkel
2,355 members
24 reviews
4.2
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,855 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
6,578 members
316 reviews
½ 4.5
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
4,143 members
134 reviews
½ 4.3
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How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky
1,976 members
53 reviews
4.2
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
7,239 members
55 reviews
3.9
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Washington: A Life
by Ron Chernow
3,786 members
97 reviews
½ 4.4
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An Autobiography; or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
4,205 members
51 reviews
4
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The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
2,331 members
32 reviews
4.2
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Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen
541 members
13 reviews
3.8
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Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje
2,413 members
116 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
by Hisham Matar
879 members
38 reviews
4
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The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti
280 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
by Mitch Landrieu
267 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1,126 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
by Alex Wagner
104 members
2 reviews
4
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne
215 members
3 reviews
3.9
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There There
by Tommy Orange
6,108 members
245 reviews
4
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
by Denis Johnson
748 members
39 reviews
3.9
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Immigrant, Montana
by Amitava Kumar
145 members
3 reviews
½ 2.7
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Florida
by Lauren Groff
1,414 members
69 reviews
3.8
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Feel Free: Essays
by Zadie Smith
874 members
18 reviews
3.8
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Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday
1,222 members
60 reviews
½ 3.5
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
by Raymond Arsenault
92 members
2 reviews
3.8
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by Shane Bauer
680 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Girl Savage
by Katherine Rundell
374 members
19 reviews
4.1
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
6,131 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
by Gordon M. Goldstein
237 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
2,262 members
55 reviews
3.8
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In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
2,697 members
49 reviews
3.8
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A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court
by William Ayers
44 members
½ 3.5
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
by Reinhold Niebuhr
1,279 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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Philosophy and Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Commitment
by Cameron V. Thompson
49 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,567 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols. & index & 1st supplement)
by Abraham Lincoln
162 members
1 review
4
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FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
1,058 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
by Jonathan Alter
754 members
19 reviews
4.1
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
by Fred Kaplan
410 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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John Adams
by David McCullough
15,450 members
214 reviews
½ 4.3
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What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
by Dave Eggers
7,257 members
173 reviews
4.1
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
6,104 members
226 reviews
4
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