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Obama lists his favorite books of 2019
- mtmail 7y agoList plain text (from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-12-28/barack-obama-favorite-books-2019 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-...) “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” by Shoshana Zuboff “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company,” by William Dalrymple “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” by Casey Cep “Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner) “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present,” by David Treuer “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell “Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli “Lot: Stories,” by Bryan Washington “Normal People,” by Sally Rooney “The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson “The Yellow House,” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction) “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” by Patrick Radden Keefe “Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox “The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) “We Live in Water: Stories,” by Jess Walter
- dredmorbius 7y ago1. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff https://www.worldcat.org/title/age-of-surveillance-capitalism-the-fight-for-a-human-future-at-the-new-frontier-of-power/oclc/1121142538 https://www.worldcat.org/title/age-of-surveillance-capitalis... 2. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple https://www.worldcat.org/title/anarchy-the-relentless-rise-of-the-east-india-company/oclc/1128195130 https://www.worldcat.org/title/anarchy-the-relentless-rise-o... 3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep https://www.worldcat.org/title/furious-hours-murder-fraud-and-the-last-trial-of-harper-lee/oclc/1110448869 https://www.worldcat.org/title/furious-hours-murder-fraud-an... 4. Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner) https://www.worldcat.org/title/girl-woman-other/oclc/1127909792 https://www.worldcat.org/title/girl-woman-other/oclc/1127909... 5. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer https://www.worldcat.org/title/heartbeat-of-wounded-knee-native-america-from-1890-to-the-present/oclc/1108751718 https://www.worldcat.org/title/heartbeat-of-wounded-knee-nat... 6. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-the-attention-economy/oclc/1130765325 https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-t... 7. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli https://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-children-archive/oclc/1111703725 https://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-children-archive/oclc/11... 8. Lot: Stories, by Bryan Washington https://www.worldcat.org/title/lot-stories/oclc/1128099233 https://www.worldcat.org/title/lot-stories/oclc/1128099233 9. Normal People, by Sally Rooney https://www.worldcat.org/title/normal-people/oclc/1119769689 https://www.worldcat.org/title/normal-people/oclc/1119769689 10. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson https://www.worldcat.org/title/orphan-masters-son-a-novel/oclc/777134695 https://www.worldcat.org/title/orphan-masters-son-a-novel/oc... 11. The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction) https://www.worldcat.org/title/yellow-house/oclc/1122461200 https://www.worldcat.org/title/yellow-house/oclc/1122461200 12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe https://www.worldcat.org/title/say-nothing-a-true-story-of-murder-and-memory-in-northern-ireland/oclc/1088724018 https://www.worldcat.org/title/say-nothing-a-true-story-of-m... 13. Solitary, by Albert Woodfox https://www.worldcat.org/title/solitary/oclc/1105720325 https://www.worldcat.org/title/solitary/oclc/1105720325 14. The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner https://www.worldcat.org/title/topeka-school/oclc/1126252713 https://www.worldcat.org/title/topeka-school/oclc/1126252713 15. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino https://www.worldcat.org/title/trick-mirror-reflections-on-self-delusion/oclc/1117453514 https://www.worldcat.org/title/trick-mirror-reflections-on-s... 16. Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) https://www.worldcat.org/title/trust-exercise/oclc/1114353765 https://www.worldcat.org/title/trust-exercise/oclc/111435376... 17. We Live in Water: Stories, by Jess Walter https://www.worldcat.org/title/we-live-in-water-stories/oclc/885023342 https://www.worldcat.org/title/we-live-in-water-stories/oclc... (ProTip: don't use HN code blocks for quoted text.)
- davidjhall 7y agoThere's a page two that's not accessible on instagram that has earlier books: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1211033245812441091?s=20 https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1211033245812441091?s... There he recommended Exhalation/Ted Chiang -- my favorite of the year