Barack Obama releases list of his 19 favorite books from 2019
Ex-president’s picks include subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in Britain
Ex-president’s picks include subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in Britain
The list of 19 fiction and non-fiction titles encompasses a range of subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in Britain, and includes the work of a writer dubbed “the first great millennial novelist”.
Among Obama’s picks for 2019 were:
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom, described by writer Casey Cep as a “beautiful memoir, and it gives you a rich and complex portrait of the city” of New Orleans.
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom, described by writer Casey Cep as a “beautiful memoir, and it gives you a rich and complex portrait of the city” of New Orleans.
Cep’s own latest work, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, an account of Lee’s lost true-crime book
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
