Here are Barack Obama's top 13 book recommendations of 2021. (via CNBCMakeIt)
he started while in the White House. "Art always sustains and nourishes the soul," Obama, 60, wrote in his posts. "But for me, music and storytelling felt especially urgent during this pandemic year."
The 13 books on Obama's list this year encompass several genres, but are all penned by American authors and revolve around the human experience. In 2015, Obama the New York Review that he's long gravitated toward novels that elicit empathy, a trend that continues this year.
Some of the writers are particularly well acclaimed: Colson Whitehead, for example, has won two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. Others, like musician Michelle Zauner, are relative debutants as authors.," for example, takes readers through the early 1970s rock scene in New York City through the lens of Opal, an aspiring musician from Detroit.
Decades later, in 2016, Opal's life is distinctly different — part of a story about music, race and family secrets that NPRThe non-fiction on Obama's list appears to be just as emotionally gripping. Take Andrea Elliott's "
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