Barrack Obama's favorite books of 2023

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By Esther Nyambura | Dec 23, 2023

As is a custom, former US president Barack Obama has shared a list of the books that he enjoyed reading in 2023.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter) Obama gave a list of 15 books including:

  1. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
  2. The Maniac by Benjamin Labarut
  3. Poverty, By America by Mathew Desmond.
  4. How To Say Babylon' by Safiya Sinclair
  5. The Wager' by David Grann
  6. Chip War' by Chris Miller.
  7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
  8. Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
  9. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  10. The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen.
  11. The All The Sinners Bleed by S.A Cosby
  12. The Kingdom, The Power And The Glory by Tim Alberta
  13. Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
  14. This Other Eden written by Paul Harding.
  15. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

He said that he would release a list of his favorite music and movies throughout 2023.

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