Year-End Lists

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2018, as posted to Facebook

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

Books that appeared on earlier lists

• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones
• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Broken Ladder

  How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
  Keith Payne
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Factfulness

  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
  Hans Rosling
• A Grain of Wheat
  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• A House for Mr. Biswas
  V.S. Naipaul
• How Democracies Die
  Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• In the Shadow of Statues

  A White Southerner Confronts History
  Mitch Landrieu
• Long Walk to Freedom

  The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
• The New Geography of Jobs
  Enrico Moretti
• The Return

  Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
  Hisham Matar
• Things Fall Apart
  Chinua Achebe
• Warlight
  Michael Ondaatje
• Why Liberalism Failed
  Patrick J. Deneen
• The World as It Is

  A Memoir of the Obama White House
  Ben Rhodes

Other favorites books

• American Prison

  A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
  Shane Bauer
• Arthur Ashe

  A Life
  Raymond Arsenault
• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Feel Free
  Zadie Smith
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• Immigrant, Montana
  Amitava Kumar
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• Life 3.0

  Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  Max Tegmark
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• Washington Black
  Esi Edugyan