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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.

Obama's Picks for the Best Books of 2022

Obama's Picks for the Best Books of 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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