“I’ll start sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by a certain 44th president,” Obama joked. “I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.”
“Homeland Elegies” by Ayad Akhtar
“Jack” by Marilynne Robinson
“Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson
“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson
“Luster” by Raven Leilani
“How many of these hills are gold” by C Pam Zhang
“Long Bright River” by Liz Moore
“Memorial Drive” by Natasha Trethewey
“Twilight of Democracy” by Anne Applebaum
“Deacon King Kong” by James McBride
“The Undocumented Americans” by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
“The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
“The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
“The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Sharks in the Time of Saviors” by Kawai Strong Washburn
“Missionaries” by Phil Klay