The White House released President Obama’s summer reading list today, and it includes some solid choices. They span from novels to nonfiction books about climate change and race relations in the United States.
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Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images President Barack Obama holds a joint news conference with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Washington in June 2015.
This book from 2010 is a biography of George Washington and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011. OK, technically it’s an essay, but that hasn’t stopped it from a sustained run atop the New York Times’ print and e-book best-sellers list.
He’s had Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland since 2013, when it first came out, and bought Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We can not See last year at D.C. book store Politics & Prose on Small Business Saturday, which falls the day after Black Friday. The book takes place in Paris and Germany during World War II and tells the story of a blind French girl and a German boy who struggle through the war together.
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Obama might also crack the covers of “Between the World and Me”, a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which is described as a bold personal exploration of racial history in America.
