Year-End Lists

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2023, as posted to Instagram

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• The MANIAC
  Benjamín Labatut
• Poverty, by America
  Matthew Desmond
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Chip War

  The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  Chris Miller
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• Humanly Possible

  Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
  Sarah Bakewell
• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• The Covenant of Water
  Abraham Verghese
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• All the Sinners Bleed
  S.A. Cosby
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

  American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
  Tim Alberta
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista
• This Other Eden
  Paul Harding