Barack Obama is back with his annual lists of his favorite entertainment of the year, starting with his top reads of 2022. And one title is from an author near and dear to his heart.
On Friday, the former president dropped his favorites books of the year, topping the list with his wife's novel, "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times."
"I'm a bit biased on this one," he wrote in parenthesis next to the book on his list.
Obama has made it a routine to share his favorite books, songs, and movies of the summer and at the end of the year, a tradition that started while he was in the White House.
Accompanying Michelle Obama's latest, Obama also praised books that made USA TODAY's top books of 2022 including George Saunders' "Liberation Day" and "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel.
"I always look forward to sharing my lists of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you," he wrote. His has not yet shared his movies and music lists.
Here's the complete list Obama's picks this year:
Barack Obama's favorite movies of 2022
- "The Fabelmans"
- "Decision to Leave"
- "The Woman King"
- "Aftersun"
- "Emily the Criminal"
- "Petite Maman"
- "Descendant"
- "Happening"
- "Till"
- "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
- "Top Gun: Maverick"
- "The Good Boss"
- "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy"
- "A Hero"
- "Hit the Road"
- "Tár"
- "After Yang"
Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022
- "The Light We Carry" by Michelle Obama
- "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel
- "Trust" by Hernan Diaz
- "The Furrows: A Novel" by Namwali Serpell
- "South to America" by Imani Perry
- "The School for Good Mothers" by Jessamine Chan
- "Black Cake" by Charmaine Wilkerson
- "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" by Kate Beaton
- "An Immense World" by Ed Yong
- "Liberation Day" by George Saunders
- "The Candy House" by Jennifer Egan
- "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Last year, Obama's literary favorites included Lauren Groff's "medieval masterpiece," "Matrix"; the "domestic epic," "Crossroads," by Jonathan Franzen; and Ann Patchett's essay collection "These Precious Days." Other featured titles included Amor Towles' "absorbing" 1950s road trip tale, "The Lincoln Highway," as well as the '60s-based crime novel, "Harlem Shuffle," by Colson Whitehead.
