Former President Barack Obama posted his year-end list of his favorite books, movies, and music that he found "most though-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved" on Facebook Friday morning.
Details: Obama's favorite book was his wife Michelle's, "Becoming" ("obviously my favorite!" he wrote). He also gave a shout out to movies like "Black Panther" and "Eighth Grade," as well as songs such as "I Like It" by Cardi B and Prince's "Mary Don't You Weep."
Some of Obama's mentionable favorites:
Books
- "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones
- "The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die" by Keith Payne
- "Educated" by Tara Westover
- "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling
- "A Grain of Wheat" by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
- "In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History" by Mitch Landrieu
- "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
- "The New Geography of Jobs" by Enrico Moretti
- "The World As It Is" by Ben Rhodes
Movies
- "Annihilation"
- "Black Panther"
- "BlacKkKlansman"
- "Burning"
- "The Death of Stalin"
- "Eighth Grade"
- "Minding the Gap"
- "Roma"
- "Support the Girls"
- "Won’t You Be My Neighbor"
Music
- "Apes••t" by The Carters
- "Bad Bad News" by Leon Bridges
- "Every Time I Hear That Song" by Brandi Carlile
- "I Like it" by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
- "Kevin's Heart" by J. Cole
- "Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monáe
- "One Trick Ponies" by Kurt Vile
- "Wait by the River" by Lord Huron
- "Wow Freestyle" by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
- "The Great American Songbook" by the late Nancy Wilson
See his full list here.
