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Obama's Picks for the Best Books of 2022

Former President Obama is always generous with the recommendations. Here he shares 13 books that he enjoyed reading in 2022.
Tertulia •
Dec 23rd, 2022

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (of course!)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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