President Obama's Summer Reading List

1.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating β€” 194,443 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,227,039 ratings
3.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating β€” 436,143 ratings
4.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating β€” 412,851 ratings
5.
Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating β€” 79,607 ratings
6.
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating β€” 27,060 ratings
7.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating β€” 51,940 ratings
8.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating β€” 73,875 ratings
9.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating β€” 208,900 ratings
10.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating β€” 787,109 ratings
11.
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 3.83 avg rating β€” 8,843 ratings
12.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,001,806 ratings
13.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves 3.97 avg rating β€” 13,179 ratings
14.
Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating β€” 428,409 ratings
15.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,756 ratings
16.
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health 4.01 avg rating β€” 233 ratings
17.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,073,511 ratings
18.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating β€” 445,066 ratings
19.
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others 4.07 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
20.
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot 3.96 avg rating β€” 3,099 ratings
21.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating β€” 4,356,958 ratings
22.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 4.39 avg rating β€” 7,202 ratings
23.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,970,135 ratings
24.
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,733,340 ratings
25.
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua 4.40 avg rating β€” 687 ratings
25.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating β€” 60,127 ratings
27.
The Revolution: A Manifesto
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by: Ron Paul
4.13 avg rating β€” 7,739 ratings
28.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating β€” 402,804 ratings
29.
The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating β€” 42,955 ratings
30.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating β€” 906,365 ratings
31.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating β€” 971,656 ratings
32.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating β€” 535,614 ratings
33.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman 4.09 avg rating β€” 42,515 ratings
34.
Little Bee
Little Bee 3.72 avg rating β€” 247,084 ratings
35.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick 3.56 avg rating β€” 602,832 ratings
36.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating β€” 324,716 ratings
37.
Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating β€” 45,695 ratings
38.
Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist 3.94 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
39.
The Revenge of Gaia
The Revenge of Gaia 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,882 ratings
40.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating β€” 377,377 ratings
40.
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1) 4.01 avg rating β€” 421,433 ratings
42.
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,026 ratings
43.
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating β€” 32,239 ratings
44.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) 3.51 avg rating β€” 669,506 ratings
45.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,015,823 ratings
46.
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating β€” 3,199 ratings
47.
Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 9,883 ratings
48.
Ethics for the New Millennium
Ethics for the New Millennium 4.08 avg rating β€” 4,480 ratings
49.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 4.05 avg rating β€” 311,651 ratings
50.
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 696,782 ratings
51.
Fight Club
Fight Club 4.18 avg rating β€” 629,473 ratings
52.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating β€” 194,262 ratings
53.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 753,957 ratings
54.
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? 4.30 avg rating β€” 26,885 ratings
55.
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,313 ratings
56.
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea 4.10 avg rating β€” 777 ratings
57.
Exponential Apocalypse
Exponential Apocalypse 3.90 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
58.
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 558,649 ratings
59.
Where Love Is, There God Is Also
Where Love Is, There God Is Also 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,988 ratings
60.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,592 ratings
61.
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 4.22 avg rating β€” 8,105 ratings
62.
Die Nigger Die!
Die Nigger Die! 4.35 avg rating β€” 713 ratings
63.
Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume 4.23 avg rating β€” 79,706 ratings
64.
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,636 ratings
65.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating β€” 170,763 ratings
66.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,883 ratings
67.
Essays
Essays 4.23 avg rating β€” 21,557 ratings
68.
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve 4.27 avg rating β€” 331 ratings
69.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating β€” 27,079 ratings
70.
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
by: John Gray
3.93 avg rating β€” 4,888 ratings
71.
Cornered : The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Cornered : The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction 3.81 avg rating β€” 156 ratings
71.
Burr
Burr 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,488 ratings
71.
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis 4.31 avg rating β€” 734 ratings
74.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating β€” 84,386 ratings
75.
Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West 3.82 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
75.
The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy 4.17 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
77.
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE ET LE PROBLEME COLONIAL
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE ET LE PROBLEME COLONIAL 3.20 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
78.
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,937 ratings
79.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating β€” 873,373 ratings
80.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating β€” 47,425 ratings
81.
Greyhound
Greyhound really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,087 ratings
82.
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
by: Joel Berg
3.88 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
83.
Lincoln
Lincoln 4.25 avg rating β€” 9,731 ratings
84.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ 4.24 avg rating β€” 89,752 ratings
85.
The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology
The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology 4.31 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
85.
Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating β€” 83,125 ratings
87.
Under the Dome
Under the Dome 3.93 avg rating β€” 317,802 ratings
88.
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 112,087 ratings
89.
Never Look Away
Never Look Away 4.04 avg rating β€” 20,338 ratings
90.
Obamaism is Socialism
Obamaism is Socialism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
91.
Ill Fares the Land
Ill Fares the Land
by: Tony Judt
4.01 avg rating β€” 4,247 ratings
92.
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating β€” 44,777 ratings
93.
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,995 ratings
94.
Ω…Ψ«Ω†ΩˆΫŒ Ω…ΨΉΩ†ΩˆΫŒ
Ω…Ψ«Ω†ΩˆΫŒ Ω…ΨΉΩ†ΩˆΫŒ 4.45 avg rating β€” 4,129 ratings
95.
The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating β€” 3,644 ratings
96.
I Saw Ramallah
I Saw Ramallah 4.20 avg rating β€” 18,624 ratings
97.
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies 3.39 avg rating β€” 202 ratings
98.
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) 4.10 avg rating β€” 673,572 ratings
99.
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β€” 23,214 ratings
100.
The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence 4.20 avg rating β€” 3,637 ratings
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