Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025

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