The 5 Books on President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List

As he kicked off a sum­mer vaca­tion, Pres­i­dent Oba­ma released last week a free 39-song playlist for a sum­mer day–essen­tial­ly a sound­track for a sum­mer vaca­tion. He also shared his sum­mer read­ing list–five books which offer, notes the White House, “a mix of fic­tion and non-fic­tion, includ­ing a Pulitzer Prize-win­ning surf mem­oir, a psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller, and a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el. They include:

• Bar­bar­ian Days: A Surf­ing Life by William Finnegan
• The Under­ground Rail­road by Col­son White­head
• H Is for Hawk by Helen Mac­don­ald
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Sev­en­eves by Neal Stephen­son

For any­one inter­est­ed in revis­it­ing Pres. Oba­ma’s five picks from last sum­mer, we have them here:

• All The Light We Can­not See by Antho­ny Doerr
• The Sixth Extinc­tion by Eliz­a­beth Kol­bert
• The Low­land by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Wash­ing­ton: A Life by Ron Cher­now

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