(Newswire.net — August 13, 2016) —When he is not playing golf with NBA basketball stars, or walking along the beach, US President Barack Obama is a voracious reader and relaxes with a good book.
In an interview with People magazine in December 2015, he said that his favorite book of the year was the novel “Fates and Furies” by Lauren Goff, a portrait of a dishonest marriage seen from both sides, and also a finalist for the National Book Award.
According to the Telegraph, Obama once told Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner that Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls was one of the books that had most inspired him.
The White House has now released a list of five books which the US President is reading during his two-week summer break.
The American President is a fan of memoirs and science fiction, reports the AFP agency.
Among the books that he has read is William Finnegan’s memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Finnegan is the winner of the 2016 Autobiography Pulitzer Prize, and in this book he describes his obsession with surfing and work-life balance, a subject that is very close to the US President, according to the AFP agency.
Obama also read Colson Whitehead’s book The Underground Railroad this summer, a historical novel in which he described the harrowing journey of young blacks to freedom.
On the list of books that Obama plans to read is the bestseller H as a Hawk by Helen Macdonald. It is book is about a woman who tames a wild bird of prey after the death of her father.
By the end of his vacation President Obama will read two novels – the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and he plans to read a science fiction adventure about a post-apocalyptic world by Neal Stephenson called Seveneves.
Obama is still in the middle of his 16-day summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. This weekend, he is scheduled to attend a DNC fundraiser at a private residence on the island, ABC News reports.