[2023] Obama’s Summer Reading: A List (and a Challenge)

Reading time: 1 min

After introducing the lists and one challenge so far, it’s time to combine them!

Some of you probably know already what summer brings.

No, not walks on the beach.

Sometimes mosquitoes, yes.

Did I… hear dipping into the ocean hoping the kraken won’t eat you?

…

What Summer REALLY Brings

Anyway! Summer brings Obama’s Summer Reading & Music lists.

Here are the titles of the books:

• Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
• Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane
• King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig
• Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
• All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby
• Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton
• What Napoleon Could Not Do, by DK Nnuro
• The Wager, by David Grann
• Blue Hour, by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

If you’re looking for the playlist of his songs to listen to while reading, you can find it here, courtesy of Spotify!

If you’re looking for the list of books itself that you can mark, you can find it in the Downloads section of this blog. What are you going to do with it? Well…

Challenge

Here is the challenge of August, running from the 3rd to the 31st of this month.

How many books from Obama’s list will you read?