Obama shares summer reading list featuring Diop and Ishiguro
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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].
- Barak Obama
- David Diop
- Patrick Radden Keefe
- Benjamín Labatut
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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