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Every year, former President Barack Obama shared his favorite reads of the year, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as his favorite movies and music. This year’s list includes award-winning literary fiction, popular nonfiction, and some less well-known choices. As for how he selects these titles, he says that these are the “books that have stuck with me long after I finished reading them.”
