Barack Obama

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction)
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Luster by Raven Leilani
• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
• Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum non fiction NYT review here
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (nonfiction)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Hidden Valley Road – Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker (nonfiction)
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Read Bill McKibben’s review here
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
• Missionaries by Phil Klay

Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich

• The Resisters by Gish Jen
• Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
• Transcendent Kingdon by Yaa Gyasi
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
• Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
• Memorial by Brian Washington
• The All of It by Jeannette Haien (apparently an all time favorite of AP)
• Begin Again by James Baldwin
• Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Random Sources

• Our Revolution by Honor Moore (nonfiction)
• With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
• The Cold Millions by Jess Walter