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Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2023

Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond Cover Image
$25.20
ISBN: 9780593239919
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Published: Crown - March 21st, 2023

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker


Small Mercies: A Novel By Dennis Lehane Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780062129482
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Published: Harper - April 25th, 2023

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen King


King: A Life By Jonathan Eig Cover Image
$31.50
ISBN: 9780374279295
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 16th, 2023

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller | An Obama Summer Reading List Pick

“Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig’s book is worthy of its subject.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)


Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano Cover Image
$25.20
ISBN: 9780593243732
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Published: The Dial Press - March 14th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?


All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel By S. A. Cosby Cover Image
$25.19
ISBN: 9781250831910
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Published: Flatiron Books - June 6th, 2023

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal.” —Stephen King, The
New York Times Book Review

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.


Birnam Wood: A Novel By Eleanor Catton Cover Image
$25.20
ISBN: 9780374110338
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 7th, 2023

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReads
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick

“[A] savagely satirical thriller.” —People


What Napoleon Could Not Do: A Novel By DK Nnuro Cover Image
$25.20
ISBN: 9780593420348
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 7th, 2023

One of the Books Barack Obama Is Reading This Summer
One of Vulture’s Best Books of 2023
One of Goodreads’ Buzziest Debut Novels of 2023
One of Essence’s 31 Books You Must Read
One of the most anticipated books by Town & Country and Elle


The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780385534260
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Published: Doubleday - April 18th, 2023

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.


Blue Hour: A Novel By Tiffany Clarke Harrison Cover Image
$14.36
ISBN: 9781593767495
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Published: Soft Skull - April 4th, 2023

A Barack Obama 2023 Summer Reading selection

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been—a love song.