The dependably definitely viewed - some say overwatched - presidential perusing rundown incorporated some obvious decisions, for example, Ron Chernow's acclaimed life story of first president George Washington.
Against the background of racially tinged roughness that has defaced the second term of America's first dark president, Obama is additionally delving into Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his child about race in America, "Between The World and Me."
There is additionally a characteristic history tome, "The 6th Annihilation" by Elizabeth Kolbert, which fits pleasantly with the ecological center arranged when Obama comes back to Washington.
In any case, fiction additionally highlights on the rundown, including two books set freely around World War II: "All That Is" by James Salter and "All The Light We Can't See" by Anthony Doerr.
Catching up on his outing to India not long ago, Obama likewise took along Pulitzer Prize victor Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Swamp," set in Kolkata.
AFP