Just days after being named the most admired man in America for the 11th year in a row, Barack Obama is sharing a list of the things he admired this year — and his wife’s book is at the top of the list.
Obama has an annual tradition of sharing his favorite books, movies, and music at the end of each year. This year’s list characteristically features some of the buzziest and most acclaimed pop culture of 2018 (An American Marriage; “Apeshit”), and it doesn’t neglect one of the most-talked-about books of December: Becoming, Michelle Obama’s memoir. “Obviously my favorite!” Obama wrote in a parenthetical next to that entry.
In addition to buzzy new fiction, Obama’s full list of favorite books includes a few classics, both older (Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart) and newer (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah), as well as some wonky nonfiction (Why Liberalism Failed; Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence). His favorite movies of the…
