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Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As the first African American president in U.S. history, his administration enacted the Affordable Care Act, authorized the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, and signed the Paris Agreement on climate change. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Since leaving office, he has authored the bestselling memoir A Promised Land, produced award-winning documentaries through Higher Ground Productions, and remains an influential global voice on civic engagement.
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Books Barack Obama recommends
A curated library compiled from public recommendations, interviews and posts.
The Three-Body Problem
Normal People
Things Fall Apart
The Underground Railroad
Pachinko
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
H is for Hawk
Life of Pi
The Ministry for the Future
The Warmth of Other Suns
Into the Fire
How Democracies Die
Abraham Lincoln
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Barbarian Days
Inland
Truth Decay
A Promised Land
Dreams from My Father
Men Without Women
Exhalation
Why Liberalism Failed
A Gentleman in Moscow
Asymmetry
How to Do Nothing
Girl, Woman, Other
Factfulness
Florida
All the Light We Cannot See
Self-Reliance
The Broken Ladder
Lab Girl
Gilead
The Return
The Sixth Extinction
Evicted
Educated
Dying
The World as It Is
An American Marriage
The Moment of Lift
Tough Love
The Topeka School
American Spy
The Shallows
A Grain of Wheat
Basketball
The Girl on the Train
The Source of Self-Regard
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