Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II(born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As a member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in U.S. history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
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Things Fall Apart
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · 14 lists
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Gilead
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A House for Mr Biswas
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Americanah
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The Underground Railroad
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Evicted
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Pachinko
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Say Nothing
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Between the World and Me
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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The Return
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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There There
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An American Marriage
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Normal People
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Parting the Waters
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Exit West
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H is for Hawk
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Lost Children Archive
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The Nickel Boys
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The Power
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The Sixth Extinction
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The Yellow House
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Dreams from My Father
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Educated
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Frederick Douglass
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The Girl on the Train
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The Orphan Master's Son
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A Grain of Wheat
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A Promised Land
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Abraham Lincoln
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American Prison
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Asymmetry
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Barbarian Days
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Becoming
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Exhalation
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Grant
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Inland
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Long Walk to Freedom
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The Ministry for the Future
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The Moment of Lift
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The Topeka School
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Trick Mirror
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Trust Exercise
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Washington Black
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A Different Way to Win
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American Spy
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Anything Is Possible
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Arthur Ashe
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Basketball
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Coach Wooden and Me
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Dying
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Factfulness
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Feel Free
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Finding My Voice
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Five-Carat Soul
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Florida
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Four Great Tragedies
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Furious Hours
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Futureface
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Heartland
Sarah Smarsh · 2005 · 1 list
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How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky · 2017 · 1 list
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How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell · 2019 · 1 list
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How to Read the Air
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Immigrant, Montana
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In the Shadow of Statues
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Into the Fire
Dakota Meyer · 2008 · 1 list
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Janesville
Amy Goldstein · 2017 · 1 list
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren · 2016 · 1 list
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Life 3.0
Max Tegmark · 2017 · 1 list
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Lot
Bryan Washington · 1975 · 1 list
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Maid
Stephanie Land · 1916 · 1 list
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Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami · 1927 · 1 list
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Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1900 · 1 list
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · 2015 · 1 list
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Solitary
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff · 2018 · 1 list
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple · 2019 · 1 list
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The Broken Ladder
Keith Payne · 1991 · 1 list
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The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power · 2019 · 1 list
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer · 2019 · 1 list
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Denis Johnson · 2018 · 1 list
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The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri · 2013 · 1 list
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The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico Moretti · 2012 · 1 list
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis · 2013 · 1 list
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The Shadow of Sirius
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The Shallows
Nicholas Carr · 2010 · 1 list
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The Sixth Man
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The Source of Self-Regard
Toni Morrison · 2019 · 1 list
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The World as It Is
Ben Rhodes · 2018 · 1 list
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Tough Love
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Truth Decay
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Warlight
Michael Ondaatje · 2018 · 1 list
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We Live in Water
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Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen · 2018 · 1 list
