Other titles on president’s list include the Oprah’s Book Club selection The Underground Railroad, science-fiction thriller Seveneves and H is for Hawk
The White House released Barack Obama’s summer reading list on Friday as the first family vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard. It’s a mix of prize-winning novels and the memoir of a surfer who spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, something the president can appreciate.
The five books are Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald; The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins; and Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
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