As he kicked off a summer vacation, President Obama released last week a free 39-song playlist for a summer day–essentially a soundtrack for a summer vacation. He also shared his summer reading list–five books which offer, notes the White House, “a mix of fiction and non-fiction, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning surf memoir, a psychological thriller, and a science fiction novel. They include:
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
For anyone interested in revisiting Pres. Obama’s five picks from last summer, we have them here:
- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
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