Books with Obama

There are going to be many posts looking back over the last 8 years of President Obama's administration, but this article, as a book-lover, is a favorite: Every book Barack Obama has recommended during his presidency.

It's a nice lift to my ego to see that he recommended some of my favorites:

• The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, which ranks in my top 10 favorite books of all time
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The works of E.L. Doctorow

But I'll be adding many of the books from Obama's recommendations to my to-read list, which is already longer than I can probably complete in my lifetime. As I've said before, I'm probably in no danger from suffering from this: