
Barack Obama's Favorite Summer Books 2021
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Intimacies
'An amazing book, beautiful and captivating.' Elif Shafak'A gorgeous, destabilizing meditation' Raven LeilaniFrom the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths.An interpreter has come to...
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The Sweetness of Water
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political'...
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Klara and the Sun
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021The #1 Sunday Times BestsellerFeatured in Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2021'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times'The Sun always has ways to reach...
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Leave the World Behind
*A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021*'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite...
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Things We Lost to the Water
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...
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Under a White Sky
**CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER 2021 READ** 'Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting' HELEN MACDONALD, New York Times The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to...
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When We Cease to Understand the World
SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST‘A monstrous and brilliant book’ Philip Pullman‘Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating’ William Boyd Sometimes discovery brings destructionWhen We Cease to Understand the...
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Project Hail Mary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development...
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Empire of Pain
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...
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Land of Big Numbers
"Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?" --Jennifer Egan "Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last...An...
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At Night All Blood is Black
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEThe prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful proseAlfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they...
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