Of little surprise, Obama’s first pick is one that might be pretty familiar to him: Michelle’s The Light We Carry. The rest of the titles on the list include:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Trust by Hernan Diaz The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff The Furrows by Namwali Serpell South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of America by Imani Perry The School for Good Mothers by Jessamin Chan Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong Liberation Day by George Saunders The Candy House by Jennifer Egan Afterlifes by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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