Date 02/01/2018 - News People
Former President Barack Obama has made it an annual tradition to share his favorite books in the new year. On New Year's Eve, the 44th president posted 12 of his favorite book titles from 2017 to Facebook. The list ranges widely from short stories to memoirs. The titles include 'The Power' by Naomi Alderman, a novel that imagines a world in which teenage girls have the power to cause immense suffering; 'Grant' by Ron Chernow, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant; 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City' by Matthew Desmond, and others.
