Barack Obama posted another summer reading list in advance of his trip to Africa. The list of mostly African authors includes:
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Return, by Hisham Matar
The World As It Is, by Ben Rhodes
Separately, Vox by Christina Dalcher is the top pick for the August’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Louise Candlish Our House and Kristan Higgins’s Good Luck with That, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available to download now. The rest of the picks:
Bellewether, by Susanna Kearsley
The Masterpiece, by Fiona Davis
The Other Woman, by Sandie Jones
Rust & Stardust, by T. Greenwood
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding, by Rhys Bowen
Meet Me at the Museum, by Anne Youngson
A River of Stars, by Vanessa Hua