The 5 Books on President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List

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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:

 

For anyone interested in revisiting Pres. Obama’s five picks from last summer, we have them here:

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