15 Books Barack Obama Thinks Everyone Should Read
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1. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Sometimes you need to immerse yourself in the magic and adventure.
"Choose your friends wisely."
"People aren't always what they seem."
"Everyone dies, but some never live."
2. "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
3. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I may need to re-read this book again. The last time I read it, I was a junior in high school and didn't have the right mindset to truly grasp the concept of it. My mindset today is totally different and I would understand book better now.
4. "An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth" by M.K. Ghandi
5. "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
6. "The Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
7. "100 Year of Solitude" by Gabriel G. Marquez
8. "Self-Reliance" by Ralph W. Emerson
9. "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
Obama isn't the first person to put this on his top 10 must reads, so I guess I should pick up a copy to see what the big deal is all about.
10. "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling
"We don't know what we don't know."
11. "Future Face" by Alex Wagner
12. "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing
13. "The-Post American World" by Fareed Zakaria
14. "Frederick Douglass" by David W. Blight
15. "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
BONUS
Gee, I wonder what the 16th and bonus book is. But why wasn't this book number one on the list???
16. "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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