Overview

• Obama shared the list on Instagram, continuing his long-running twice-yearly tradition of recommending books.
• He endorsed Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance as “a must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people.”
• The selections mix fiction and nonfiction, including Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain, S. A. Cosby’s King of Ashes, Michael Lewis’s Who Is Government?, Anita Desai’s Rosarita, and Chris Hayes’s The Sirens’ Call.
• He noted that a new Chicago Public Library branch will open at the Obama Presidential Center when the campus debuts next year.
• He said he would not release a summer music playlist this year and invited followers to suggest songs for his year-end list.