Barack Obama lists his favorite books, music, and movies of 2018

President Barack Obama released his annual list of favorite books, movies, and songs on his Facebook page yesterday. Remember when we had an intellectually and culturally curious president who did things like reading books? It seems so long ago...

From Facebook:

As 2018 draws to a close, Im continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists. It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved. It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before. Heres my best of 2018 list - I hope you enjoy reading, watching, and listening.

Heres a reminder of the books that I read this year that appeared on earlier lists:Becoming by Michelle Obama (obviously my favorite!)An American Marriage by Tayari JonesAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith PayneEducated by Tara WestoverFactfulness by Hans RoslingFutureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex WagnerA Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa ThiongoA House for Mr Biswas by V.S. NaipaulHow Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel ZiblattIn the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch LandrieuLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaThe New Geography of Jobs by Enrico MorettiThe Return by Hisham MatarThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeWarlight by Michael OndaatjeWhy Liberalism Failed by Patrick DeneenThe World As It Is by Ben Rhodes

Here are my other favorite books of 2018:American Prison by Shane BauerArthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond ArsenaultAsymmetry by Lisa HallidayFeel Free by Zadie SmithFlorida by Lauren GroffFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W.