obama reading list

• evicted: poverty and profit in the american city
• sing, unburied, sing
• a gentleman in moscow (& rules of civility)
• dying: a memoir
• the power
• grant
• janesville: an american story
• five-carat soul
• anything is possible

other people's favourites

• east of eden
• the essex serpent (acquired in 2017)
• english animals (acquired in 2017)
• stay with me (acquired in 2017)
• girls will be girls
• the night watch
• the world according to garp
• the unseen world
• the diary of a provincial lady
• my cousin rachel
• the mayor of casterbridge
• american psycho
• when we were orphans
• just mercy
• being mortal
• the year of magical thinking
• the clan of the cave bear
• the warded man
• the grace of kings
• margaret the first
• the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
• mend the living

diverse & international

• moonstone (sjon)

new authors

• joan didion
• chimamanda ngozi adichie
• john wyndham
• ted hughes
• ursula k. le guin
• marilynne robinson

recently acquired (tbr)

• letters to a young poet (26/1/18)
• the diary of frida kahlo (26/1/18)
• the remains of the day (4/1/18)
• if beale street could talk (26/12/17)
• idaho (26/12/17)
• the count of monte cristo (22/12/17)
• far from the madding crowd (22/12/17)
• brideshead revisited (15/12/17)
• the female man (11/17)
• english animals (9/17)
• the age of miracles (9/17)
• there but for the (9/17)
• the midwich cuckoos (8/17)
• the chrysalids (8/17)
• hold your own (8/17)
• weathering (8/17)
• interpreter of maladies (8/17)
• birthday letters (8/17)
• the edge of the world (8/17)
• stoner (8/17)
• scars upon my heart, poetry (8/17)
• evelina (4/17)
• stay with me (4/17)
• the essex serpent (3/17)
• citizen (1/17)
• crow (1/17
• foreign soil (1/17)