Barack Obama
Barack Obama's Favorite Books 2025
Barack Obama's Favorite Books 2025 names 21 books across 2 categories. 11 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Favorite Books
- 1929source (opens in a new tab)
- Dead and Alivesource (opens in a new tab)
- Flashlightsource (opens in a new tab)
- North Sunsource (opens in a new tab)
- Paper Girlsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunnysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Looksource (opens in a new tab)
- The Wildernesssource (opens in a new tab)
- There Is No Place for Ussource (opens in a new tab)
- We the Peoplesource (opens in a new tab)
- What We Can Knowsource (opens in a new tab)
Summer Reading
- A Marriage at Seasource (opens in a new tab)
- Abundancesource (opens in a new tab)
- Auditionsource (opens in a new tab)
- King of Ashessource (opens in a new tab)
- Mark Twainsource (opens in a new tab)
- Rosaritasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Book of Recordssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Buffalo Hunter Huntersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Sirens' Callsource (opens in a new tab)
- Who Is Government?source (opens in a new tab)
About the Barack Obama's Favorite Books
Obama shared his first list, summer reading, in 2015; his first posted year-end list came in 2017. Year-end lists are category Favorite Books and summer lists Summer Reading. There is no 2016 year-end, 2017 summer, or 2020 summer list. Sources are Obama posts (Facebook, Medium, obama.org) where they load, otherwise news pages quoting the full list. A year-end list that repeats summer picks keeps them, so each list is complete as posted. Books only.
Organization: Barack Obama. Official site (opens in a new tab)