Barack Obama's 2019 summer reading list

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Barack Obama has shared his latest summer reading list, recommending novelists including Hilary Mantel, Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison, who died last week. He wrote: “I wanted to let you know about a few books I’ve been reading this summer, in case you’re looking for some suggestions.” He began by recommending the works of Toni Morrison, who died last week aged 88 and whom he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. You’ll be glad you read them.” Obama additionally recommended works by authors including Whitehead, Mantel, Ted Chiang and Haruki Murakami. “Still great today.” The full list is as follows… The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Exhalation by Ted Chiang Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson The Shallows by Nicholas Carr Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Inland by Téa Obreht How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu Maid by Stephanie Land On Twitter, Wilkinson wrote: “I am deeply honoured to be on @BarackObama’s summer reading list, and more than a little nostalgic for a president who values reading.”