Served as the 44th US president from 2009 to 2017, the first African American in the office; earlier a US senator for Illinois (2005–2008) and an Illinois state senator.
1 book of their own · 4 biographies about them · 10 articles · 15 books they recommend
Obama's memoir from his early politics through his first presidential term.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Michelle Obama, Trevor Ncube
A Promised Land | Obama's memoir from his early politics through his first presidential term. | 2020 | Bill Gates, Michelle Obama, Trevor Ncube |
Obama's memoir from his early politics through his first presidential term.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Michelle Obama, Trevor Ncube
Recommended by: Richard Branson
Barack Obama's life, experiences and the ambition behind his rise.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Also recommended by: Oprah Winfrey, Reed Hastings
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Aileen Lee, Andrew Wilkinson and 2 others
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ali Abdaal, Michelle Obama and 3 others
Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Emmett Shear, Keith Wasserman and 2 others
A lawyer's memoir of fighting wrongful convictions, such as Walter McMillian's.
Also recommended by: Kathryn Minshew, Michelle Obama and 1 other
Also recommended by: Melinda Gates
A novel, not nonfiction, but Powers does something none of the other books here accomplish: he makes the timescale of trees felt as an emotional experience. The result is that you finish it reading the other books differently — with a less human-centric sense of what time and loss mean.
Also recommended by: Julian Shapiro
A letter to the author's teenage son about living in a black body in America.
Also recommended by: Bob Iger, Jack Dorsey, Jessica Hische and 1 other
| My Remarks as Delivered at an Atlanta Rally in Support of Keisha Lance Bottoms and Senator Jon… | Medium | 2026-10-29 |
| My Remarks at a Detroit Rally in Support of Jocelyn Benson and Abdul El-Sayed | Medium | 2026-10-25 |
| My Remarks at a Cleveland Rally in Support of Dr. Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown | Medium | 2026-10-25 |
| My Conversation at Colgate University | Medium | 2026-09-19 |
| Our Statement on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 | Medium | 2026-09-11 |
| A Great Book with Barack Obama | Medium | 2026-08-10 |
| My 2026 Summer Reading & Music Lists | Medium | 2026-07-30 |
| Our Remarks at the Opening of the Obama Presidential Center | Medium | 2026-06-19 |
| My Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Voting Rights Act | Medium | 2026-04-29 |
| Earth Day: An Obama Foundation Leader Story | Medium | 2026-04-22 |
| The Obama Doctrine Paywall | The Atlantic | 2016 |
| Obama, Explained Paywall | The Atlantic | 2012 |
| Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny? Paywall | The New York Times Magazine | 2007 |
| Obama, Before He Was President Paywall | The New Yorker | 2007 |
| The Candidate Paywall | The New Yorker | 2004 |