Barack Obama, the former head of state, has shared through his X profile (formerly Twitter) the readings that have kept him entertained so far this summer and has been encouraged to share it with his followers with the aim of exchanging opinions and literary recommendations. “I’ve read some great books in the last few months and I wanted to share them with you.” share some of my favorites. “Let me know if you have any book recommendations I should read!” she says in her tweet, which has so far been well received with around a million views and a thousand comments with other book suggestions to help me unwind and travel through literature.
- Jamesa novel by author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024.
- There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascensionwritten by American poet Hanif Abdurraqib.
- Everyone Who Is Gone Is Hereby the editor and journalist of The New YorkerJonathan Blitzer.
- Reading genesispublished by the PhD in English Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction in 2005, Marilynne Robinson.
- Headshot, an unexpected tragedy at a community pool written by Rita Bullwinkel, the author of the short story collection Belly Upwho won the award Believer Book Award 2018.
- The God of the Woods: A Novel, Liz Moore’s most ambitious and far-reaching novel yet.
- Beautiful dayswritten by Zach Williams, a fiction professor at Stanford University.
- Martyr!a novel by Iranian-American author and editor Kaveh Akbar.
- Memory pieceby American writer Lisa Ko.
- The Ministry of Time: A Novelwritten by British author Kaliane Bradley, accused of plagiarizing the Spanish The Ministry of Time.
- When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990sby writer and journalist John Ganz.
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, published by Richard V. Reeves, founding president of the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM) and nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cookby Hampton Sides, author of narrative history and nonfiction.
- Help Wantedwritten by American novelist and book critic Adelle Waldman.
And, minutes later, he opened a thread adding a comment in which he highlights his playlist most appreciated and most “eclectic,” he adds.