Barack Obama's Favourite Books

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s ...Show more

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Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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Category: Memoir & Biography

'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for t ...Show more

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

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Category: Cultural Studies

A galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity and reveals what we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value ...Show more

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.

At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more

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A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.

With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the ...Show more

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A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and no ...Show more

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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

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Category: Contemporary Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink o ...Show more

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Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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Category: Literary Fiction

THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by ...Show more

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Common Wealth : Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs

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Category: Business & Economics

This is a book about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity, while ...Show more

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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'Essential. A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter.' --Owen Jones 'If I could require the president to read one book it would be Evicted' --Zadie Smith Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest ...Show more

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future by Thomas L. Friedman

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Thomas Friedman's phenomenal "The World is Flat" helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today - our hot, flat and crowded world. Climate change and rapid population growth mean that it's no longer possible for b ...Show more

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Barack Obama's Favourite Books

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

$19.99 AUD

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

$19.99 AUD

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

$29.99 AUD

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

$19.99 AUD

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

$27.99 AUD

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

$19.95 AUD

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

$19.99 AUD

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

$19.99 AUD

Common Wealth : Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs

$27.99 AUD

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

$24.99 AUD

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

$24.99 AUD

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future by Thomas L. Friedman

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