Overview

• Posting on Instagram on August 27, Barack Obama shared ten summer picks spanning literary fiction, genre titles, biography and political nonfiction.
• He singled out 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.”
• Selections include Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain, Michael Lewis’s Who is Government?, S. A. Cosby’s King of Ashes, and Chris Hayes’s The Sirens’ Call.
• Obama said the Obama Presidential Center, expected to open next year in Chicago, will house a new branch of the Chicago Public Library.
• He did not release a summer music playlist this year and asked followers to send songs for his year-end list.