Top 13 books recommended by Barack Obama
Barack Obama is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to hold the office and the first president born outside the continental United States. He was a civil rights lawyer and a community organizer before winning the 2008 presidential election. He was re-elected in 2012, and is known for his progressive domestic policies, health care reform, and efforts to combat climate change.
Factfulness
- By: Hans Rosling
- Narrator: Hans Rosling
- Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called “a true inspiration” by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of... Read moreA hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.
Self-Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrator: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: August 15, 2017
- Language: English
Parting the Waters
- By: Taylor Branch
- Narrator: CCH Pounder
- Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 1998
- Language: English
All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrator: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
The Sixth Extinction
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrator: Anne Twomey
- Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
H Is for Hawk
- By: Helen Macdonald
- Narrator: Helen Macdonald
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
Asymmetry
- By: Lisa Halliday
- Narrator: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
The Broken Ladder
- By: Keith Payne
- Narrator: James Foster
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
Tough Love
- By: Lori Foster
- Narrator: Lori Foster
- Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 25, 2015
- Language: English
The Shallows
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: March 21, 2023
- Language: English
The Education of an Idealist
- By: Samantha Power
- Narrator: Samantha Power
- Length: 21 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
Long Walk to Freedom
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrator: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 28, 2018
- Language: English
Maid
- By: Stephanie Land
- Narrator: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 22, 2019
- Language: English