The list of 19 fiction and non-fiction titles encompasses a range of subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in Britain, and includes the work of a writer dubbed “the first great millennial novelist”.
Below you can find the full list:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff. |
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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple. |
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep. |
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by Bernardine Evaristo. |
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The of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer. |
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell. |
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by Valeria Luiselli. |
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by Bryan Washington. |
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by Sally Rooney. |
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by Adam Johnson. |
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by Sarah M. Broom. |
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe. |
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by Albert Wood. |
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by Ben Lerner. |
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino. |
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by Susan Choi. |
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by Jess Walter. |
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A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney’s Story From the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule, by Jim Rooney. |
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by Andre Iguodala. |
And here are the books Obama recommended earlier in the year:
• American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson.
• The Education of an Idealist, by Samantha Power.
• Exhalation: Stories, by Ted Chiang.
• Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward, by Valerie Jarrett.
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh.
• How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu.
• Inland: A Novel, by Téa Obreht.
• Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren.
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, by Stephanie Land.
• Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami.