Barack Obama releases list of his 19 favorite books from 2019
(The Guardian Books News)

Ex-president´s picks include subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in BritainFormer US president Barack Obama has released a list of his favorite books of 2019, the latest in his annual tradition for sharing his curated cultural highlights of the year.The list of 19 fiction and non-fiction titles encompasses a range of subjects from surveillance capitalism and the attention economy to feminism and race in Britain, and includes the work of a writer dubbed `the first great millennial novelist`.As we wind down 2019, I wanted to share with you my annual list of favorites that made the last year a little brighter. We´ll start with books today - movies and music coming soon. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. pic.twitter.com/l5qTGkAPokThe Yellow House by Sarah M Broom, described by writer Casey Cep as a `beautiful memoir, and it gives you a rich and complex portrait of the city` of New Orleans.Cep´s own latest work, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, an account of Lee´s lost true-crime bookHow To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny OdellTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana ZuboffThe Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William DalrympleNormal People by Sally Rooney Continue reading...