TBT: Former President Barack Obama Shares His Summer Reading List
2022 Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List (Barack Obama/Instagram)
Looking for a few last-minute reads before the end of summer? Former President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on July 26. His recommendations are listed below. All titles are available at Falvey Library through interlibrary loan. Enjoy the final weeks of summer, Wildcats!
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
- Silverview by John le Carré
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
- Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
- The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
- Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
- Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library.
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Barack Obama shows his class yet again by including John le Carré’s Silverview in his favourite books. Maybe next year he should include Bill Fairclough’s epic fact based spy novel Beyond Enkription in TheBurlingtonFiles series. After all, Bill’s MI6 handler knew Kim Philby and Oleg Gordievsky, but Kim Philby was the one who ended John le Carré’s MI6 career. No wonder John le Carré turned down Bill Fairclough’s offer in 2014 to collaborate on the action packed factual Burlington Files series! David Cornwell responded along the lines of “Why should I? I’ve got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?”