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Books recommended by presidents

55 books recommended by 2 people in this group, ordered by how many of them picked it.

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    James

    Percival Everett · 2024

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    The Sixth Extinction

    Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014

    Barack Obama

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    Audition

    Katie Kitamura · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    Flashlight

    Susan Choi · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    1929

    Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    A Marriage at Sea

    Sophie Elmhirst · 2026

    Barack Obama

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    Kin

    Tayari Jones · 2026

    Barack Obama

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    Orbital

    Samantha Harvey · 2023

    Barack Obama

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    The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead · 2000

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    A World Appears

    Michael Pollan · 2026

    Barack Obama

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    Abundance

    Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    Cool Machine

    Colson Whitehead

    Barack Obama

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    Dead and Alive

    Zadie Smith · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    Growth: A Reckoning

    Daniel Susskind · 2024

    Barack Obama

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    H Is for Hawk

    Helen Macdonald · 2006

    Barack Obama

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    High Tide

    Mark Lynas · 2004

    MRMary Robinson

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    Intermezzo

    Sally Rooney · 2024

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    King of Ashes

    S.A. Cosby · 2025

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    Mark Twain

    Ron Chernow · 2025

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    North Sun

    Ethan Rutherford · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    Of Boys and Men

    Richard V. Reeves · 2022

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    Our Common Future

    World Commission on Environment and Development · 1987

    MRMary Robinson

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    Paper Girl

    Beth Macy · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    Patriot

    Alexei Navalny · 2024

    Barack Obama

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    Rosarita

    Anita Desai · 2024

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    Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson · 2015

    Barack Obama

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    Stolen Pride

    Arlie Russell Hochschild · 2024

    Barack Obama

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    The Book of Records

    Madeleine Thien · 2025

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    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    The Look

    Michelle Obama · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    The Sirens' Call

    Chris Hayes · 2025

    Barack Obama

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    The Things We Never Say

    Elizabeth Strout · 2026

    Barack Obama

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    The Wide Wide Sea

    Hampton Sides · 2024

    Barack Obama

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    The Wilderness

    Angela Flournoy · 2025

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    Vigil

    George Saunders · 2026

    Barack Obama

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    Washington

    Ron Chernow · 2010

    Barack Obama

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    We the People

    Jill Lepore · 2025

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    Who Is Government?

    Michael Lewis · 2025

    Barack Obama

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