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Barack Obama’s 2019 List of Female Authors
Every year, former President Barack Obama puts together a list of his favorite books from the year. These lists often includes female authors and highlight their work in a male-dominated industry.
Obama’s support of women is nothing new, as he has said multiple times that women should be in more leadership positions.
“Women, I just want you to know you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re better than us [men],” Obama said. “I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes.”
Here is a roundup of all the female author’s Obama put on his 2019 Reading List:
In this work of research, Shoshana Zuboff provides insight into the phenomenon that she calls surveillance capitalism. A global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.
“Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep
In Furious Hours, Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. He escaped justice for years until a relative shot him at the funeral of his last victim.
“Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner)
Girl, Woman, Other is a portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women.
“How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” by Jenny Odell
In How to Do Nothing, Odell sees our attention as the most important resource people have. Once we start paying a new kind of attention we can undertake better political action and find true happiness.
“Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli
Told through several compelling voices Lost Children Archive is an intense literary work. It is an engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most.
“Normal People” by Sally Rooney
In Normal People, Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. When the two strike up a conversation something life changing begins.
“The Yellow House” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction)
The Yellow House tells a hundred years of family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle and that of a daughter who left home only to go against what the home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.
“Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion” by Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror is an trip through the idea of self-delusion that we all deal with. This is a book of nine essays that cover how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self.
“Trust Exercise” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction)
Trust Exercise is about two teenagers who fall madly in love and everyone around them taking notice. This book will start debate about fiction, truth and friendship. It will leave readers with better understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.
Katiee is a writer from Atlanta, GA, who runs her own blog called Life Starts With Coffee. She is a concert junkie, and has a pet rabbit named Florence. You can find her on Instagram at @rosecafletic.
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