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Obama shares summer reading list featuring Diop and Ishiguro
Former US President Barack Obama has released an 11-strong list of book recommendations to read this summer,continuing a tradition from his time in the White... Former US President Barack Obama has released an 11-strong list of book recommendations to read this summer,continuing a tradition from his time in the White House. The listspansfiction, non-fiction and narrative reporting,and includesthe International Booker Prize-winnerAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (Pushkin Press), ahistoric fiction novel detailingthe dark tale of a Senegalese soldier's experience fighting for the French during the First World War. Nobel winnerKazuo Ishigurois also picked out for highly-acclaimed AI explorationKlara and the Sun (Faber), It also featuresEmpire of PainbyPatrick Radden Keefe (Pan Macmillan), which delves intothe lives of three generations of the Sackler family, the American family whose members founded pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma andWhen We Cease to Understand the World(Pushkin Press) which tellsstories of scientists and mathematicians throughout history who shaped the world through their findings by Benjamín Labatut. Obama said:"While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favouritesand now, it's become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all.Sohere's this year's offering. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did. In addition to the books by Diop, Radden Keefe and Labatut, the former president also recommended the 10-part short storyseriesLandof Big NumbersbyTe-Ping Chen (Simon & Schuster),Project Hail Maryby Andy Weir (Cornerstone),Undera White Sky: The Nature of the Future byPulitzer-Prize winning authorElizabeth Kolbert(Vintage) and Eric NguyensThings We Lost to the Water(Knopf) Also celebrated wereLeave the World Behindby RumaanAlam (Bloomsbury),The Sweetness of Waterby Nathan Harris(Headline) andIntimaciesby Katie Kitamura (Vintage). Obama's 2021 summer reading list comes after he shared his favourite books from 2020, whichin Decemberhighlighted 17 titles including Isabel Wilkerson's Caste (Allen Lane)Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half (Dialogue)and C Pam Zhang's How Much of These Hills is Gold (Virago).
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