As he did in the years when he was President1, Barack Obama shared a list of his favorite books that he read in 2017:
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Grant by Ron Chernow
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano
As I've said before, Obama was our most widely read President. See also more lists of the best books of 2017.
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Remember when we had a grownup in the White House instead of an insecure and petulant manbaby? I barely do...↩