Barack Obama’s 2021 Reading List
Whether you’re camped out on the beach or curled up on the couch on a rainy day, there’s nothing quite like sitting down with a great book in the summer. - President Barack Obama
Intimacies
A Novel
By: Katie Kitamura
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Katie Kitamura's Intimacies details a few months in the life of an interpreter at The Hague who is looking for belonging to a place and perhaps to a partner. Just as she has to see beyond the words in her work, she has to interpret the actions of her married lover as well as the alleged atrocities of a war criminal she works with at the... Read more
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)
A Novel
By: Nathan Harris
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick
In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever
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Klara and the Sun
A Novel
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Told from the first person perspective of a very perceptive "Artificial Friend", Klara and the Sun, brings up questions of what it means to be human and the depths of the human heart. In a future where teenagers are all doing school online (future or present?) and they have required socialization parties and AI who are there to be their... Read more
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Leave the World Behind
A Novel
By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This fraught and claustrophobic psychological thriller begins innocently enough, with a family leaving New York for a long weekend at a rented house near the beach. They enjoy the luxury and languor of their getaway, until the house's owners, an older Black couple, show up unexpectedly, late at night, fleeing from a wide-spread power outage in... Read more
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Things We Lost to the Water
A novel
By: Eric Nguyen
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Under a White Sky is a scary book. It's about climate change, invasive species, and how Louisiana is disappearing into the ocean. It's about how humans, as a species, have screwed up the planet, and how we tend to screw it up more when we try to fix our mistakes. It's also about how we're developing a bunch of new fixes to go after our old... Read more
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Proyecto Hail Mary
By: Andy Weir
Narrated by: Raúl Llorens
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
La nueva novela del autor de El marciano, que se convertirá en una película protagonizada y producida por Ryan Gosling. UN ÚNICO ASTRONAUTA. UNA MISIÓN IMPOSIBLE. UN ALIADO QUE JAMÁS HABRÍA IMAGINADO. Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma... Read more
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Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of... Read more
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Land Of Big Numbers
Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, Christine Lakin, Katie Tang, Chris Naoki Lee & Lynn Chen
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I loved this stunning debut collection of stories. Chen digs deep and uses her experience as a foreign correspondent to portray the voices and lives of people living in modern China. These stories will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading the book. Highly recommended. Read more
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