Los Angeles Public Library: Happy Birthday President Obama!

Los Angeles CA

05 August, 2021

4:09 AM

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Press release from the Los Angeles Public Library: August 4, 2021 August 4, 2021, is former President Barack Obama's 60th birthday. In honor of this, let's take a look at his annual list of "Summer Reads". Well-known as a voracious reader, President Obama began releasing a list of what he thought were the best summer reads of the year during his first year in office. Since that time, Obama's list of summer reads has become an anxiously awaited tradition. Including both fiction and non-fiction titles, cutting across genres, and including authors who are both well-known and wonderful new discoveries, the list includes something for almost every reader! We've created a reading list that includes the President's picks from 2015-2021 (2020 seems to have been skipped and wasn't much of a "Beach/Summer" read year anyway). Happy birthday to President Obama. And happy reading for the rest of us! President Obama's Summer Reading Lists 2015-2021 Leave the World Behind Alam, Rumaan Land of Big Numbers Chen, Te-Ping View on OverDrive View in Catalog Land of Big Numbers At Night All Blood is Black Diop, David View on OverDrive View in Catalog At Night All Blood is Black The Sweetness of Water Harris, Nathan View on OverDrive View in Catalog The Sweetness of Water Klara and the Sun Ishiguro, Kazuo View on OverDrive View in Catalog Klara and the Sun Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Keefe, Patrick Radden View on OverDrive View in Catalog Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Intimacies Kitamura, Katie M. View on OverDrive View in Catalog Intimacies Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Kolbert, Elizabeth View on OverDrive View in Catalog Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future When We Cease to Understand the World Labatut, Benjamin View on OverDrive When We Cease to Understand the World Things We Lost to the Water Nguyen, Eric View on OverDrive View in Catalog Things We Lost to the Water Project Hail Mary Weir, Andy View on OverDrive View in Catalog Project Hail Mary Exhalation Chiang, Ted View on OverDrive View in Catalog Exhalation Wolf Hall Mantel, Hilary View on OverDrive View in Catalog Wolf Hall The Collected Works of Toni Morrison Morrison, Toni View on hoopla The Collected Works of Toni Morrison Men Without Women: Stories Murakami, Haruki View on OverDrive View in Catalog Men Without Women: Stories The Nickel Boys: A Novel Whitehead, Colson View on OverDrive View in Catalog The Nickel Boys: A Novel American Spy Wilkinson, Lauren View on OverDrive View in Catalog American Spy An American Marriage Jones, Tayari View on OverDrive View in Catalog An American Marriage A House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul, V. S. View on OverDrive View in Catalog A House for Mr. Biswas Warlight Ondaatje, Michael View on OverDrive View in Catalog Warlight Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World Rosling, Hans View on OverDrive View in Catalog Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World Educated: A Memoir Westover, Tara View on OverDrive View in Catalog Educated: A Memoir The Power: A Novel Alderman, Naomi View on OverDrive View in Catalog The Power: A Novel Grant Chernow, Ron View on OverDrive View in Catalog Grant Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Desmond, Matthew View on OverDrive View in Catalog Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Janesville: An American Story Goldstein, Amy View on OverDrive View in Catalog Janesville: An American Story Exit West: A Novel Hamid, Mohsin View on OverDrive View in Catalog Exit West: A Novel Five-Carat Soul McBride, James View on OverDrive View in Catalog Five-Carat Soul Dying: A Memoir Taylor, Cory View on OverDrive View in Catalog Dying: A Memoir A Gentleman in Moscow Towles, Amor View on OverDrive View in Catalog A Gentleman in Moscow Sing, Unburied, Sing Ward, Jesmyn View on OverDrive View in Catalog Sing, Unburied, Sing Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem View on OverDrive View in Catalog Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Serrano, Shea View on OverDrive View in Catalog Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Finnegan, William View on OverDrive View in Catalog Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Girl on the Train: A Novel Hawkins, Paula View on OverDrive View in Catalog Girl on the Train: A Novel H is for Hawk Macdonald, Helen View on OverDrive View in Catalog H is for Hawk Seveneves Stephenson, Neal View on OverDrive View in Catalog Seveneves The Underground Railroad Whitehead, Colson View on OverDrive View in Catalog The Underground Railroad Alexander Hamilton Chernow, Ron View on OverDrive View in Catalog Alexander Hamilton Between the World and Me Coates, Ta-Nehisi View on OverDrive View in Catalog Between the World and Me All the Light We Cannot See Doerr, Anthony View on OverDrive View in Catalog All the Light We Cannot See The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Kolbert, Elizabeth View on OverDrive View in Catalog The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History The Lowland Lahiri, Jhumpa View on OverDrive View in Catalog This press release was produced by the Los Angeles Public Library. 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