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Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025

  1. 1
    BookPaper GirlBeth Macy · 2025

    Paper Girl

    Beth Macy · 2025

  2. 2

    Flashlight

    Susan Choi · 2025

  3. 3
    BookWe the PeopleJill Lepore · 2025

    We the People

    Jill Lepore · 2025

  4. 4
    BookThere Is No Place for UsBrian Goldstone · 2025

    There Is No Place for Us

    Brian Goldstone · 2025

  5. 5

    North Sun

    Ethan Rutherford · 2025

  6. 6

    1929

    Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025

  7. 7

    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    Kiran Desai · 2025

  8. 8

    Dead and Alive

    Zadie Smith · 2025

  9. 9

    What We Can Know

    Ian McEwan · 2025

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Susan Choi’s Flashlight and Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny appear among Barack Obama’s year-end reading favorites.

Source: https://barackobama.medium.com/here-are-my-favorite-books-movies-and-music-of-2025-7139a0bdaf5b

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Paper Girl — Beth Macy
  2. Flashlight — Susan Choi
  3. We the People — Jill Lepore
  4. There Is No Place for Us — Brian Goldstone
  5. North Sun — Ethan Rutherford
  6. 1929 — Andrew Ross Sorkin
  7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai
  8. Dead and Alive — Zadie Smith
  9. What We Can Know — Ian McEwan
  10. The Look — Michelle Obama