本周六的时候，前总统 Barack Obama 开始公开盘点自己2019年的“最爱”清单。他首先公开的是自己最喜欢的书籍清单，他认为这些书让他的2019“更光明了一些(a little brighter for me)”。
奥巴马在 Instagram 帖子中写道：“对我而言，这已成为一种有趣的小传统，我希望对你来说也是如此。”
“因为我们每个人都有很多要去忙的事情，关于工作，关于家庭，还有社会上的事情，和志愿工作等等。文学和艺术可以增强我们每日的生活体验。”
与往年类似，奥巴马的书籍清单融合了历史性的非小说类作品和一些文学小说，其中包括有关于移民危机的 Lost Children Archive；还有 Sally Rooney 的小说 Normal People，这本书现在正在改编为 Hulu 的剧集； 还有探索白人男性身份的 The Topeka School。
以下是 Obama 分享的完整书单：
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff
"The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" by William Dalrymple
"Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" by Casey Cep
"Girl, Woman, Other" by Bernardine Evaristo
"The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" by David Treuer
"How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell
"Lost Children Archive" by Valeria Luiselli
"Lot: Stories" by Bryan Washington
"Normal People" by Sally Rooney
"The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson
"The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
"Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe
"Solitary" by Albert Woodfox
"The Topeka School" by Ben Lerner
"Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion" by Jia Tolentino
"Trust Exercise" by Susan Choi
"We Live in Water: Stories" by Jess Walter
"A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney's Story from the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule" by Jim Rooney
"The Sixth Man" by Andre Iguodala
