Barack Obama... What Books is He Reading?

The White House has revealed six books that US President Barack Obama will be reading on vacation. Obama and his family are at a Massachusetts beach on holiday.

Obama and his family are at a Massachusetts beach on holiday.

The first family is always keenly observed. The reading list included some unsurprising choices, such as Ron Chernow's acclaimed biography of first president George Washington.

Amid the background of racially motivated violence that rocked United States and has blemished the second term of America's first black president, Obama is reading "Between The World and Me."Ta-Nehisi Coates's letter to his son about race in America,

There is also a natural history to me, "The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert, which fits nicely with the environmental focus planned when Obama returns to Washington.

It is interesting to note that fiction also features on the list, including two novels set loosely around World War II: "All That Is" by James Salter and "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.

as a follow up to Following up on his trip to India earlier this year, Obama also took along Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland," set in Kolkata.

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