Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books of 2017

By: Jan. 02, 2018
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Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books of 2017

Former President Barack Obama took to Facebook to share his favorite books of 2017.

The list includes:

-The Power by Naomi Alderman
-Grant by Ron Chernow
-Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American --City by Matthew Desmond
-Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
-Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
-Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
-Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
-Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
-A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
-Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
-Bonus for hoops fans: Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The first African American to assume the presidency, he was previously the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008.

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