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Barack Obama's Favorite Books - 2025

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Read your way through Barack Obama’s official 2025 favorites. This list features a curated selection of the year's best fiction, memoirs, and deep dives into history and policy. Completing this challenge means you've finished one of the most respected reading lists in the country.

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1
Paper Girl

Beth Macy2025

2
Flashlight

Susan Choi2025

3
We the People

Jill Lepore2023

4
There Is No Place for Us

Brian Goldstone2025

5
North Sun

Ethan Rutherford2025

6
1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin2025

8
Dead and Alive

Zadie Smith2025

9
What We Can Know

Ian McEwan2025

10
The Look

Michelle Obama2025

11
Mark Twain

Ron Chernow2010

12
Book of Records

Madeleine Thien2025

13
King of Ashes

S. A. Cosby2025

14
Rosarita

Anita Desai1997

15
Audition

Katie Kitamura2025

16
Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones2025

17
Abundance

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson2025

18
A Marriage at Sea

Sophie Elmhirst2025

19
Who Is Government?

Michael Lewis2025

20
The Sirens' Call

Chris Hayes2024