President Obama’s gotten caught reading by the press fairly consistently since May 2008 - though more often during the campaign than during the first six months of his presidency. Rather handily, the Daily Beast has recapped his reading picks, which shows “a predilection for presidential profiles, a weakness for explain-it-all bestsellers, and the occasional hankering for literary fiction.”
There are 12 entries so far – that’s a year’s supply of reading for enterprising book clubs!
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| What Is the What |
| Dave Eggers |
| Retail Price: |
$15.95 |
| Paperback Edition: |
560 pages |
| Publisher: |
Vintage – (2007-11-13) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0676979491 / 978-0676979497 / |
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Also available from BBC audio:
- 17 CDs $39.95; 978-1-60283-262-6
Library editions:
- 17 CDs $124.95; 9780792748953
- 2 MP3 CD’s $74.95; 978-0-7927-4916-5
2 MP3CD Audiobook 20 Hr 31 Min
ISBN: 978-0-7927-4916-
2 MP3 CD’s $74.95; 978-0-7927-4916-5
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| Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) |
| Joseph O’Neill |
| Retail Price: |
$14.95 |
| Paperback: |
272 pages |
| Publisher: |
Vintage – (2009-05-07) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0307388778 / 9780307388773 |
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Also available from Recorded Books
- CD: #34.99; ISBN 9781436155427
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| Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet |
| Jeffrey D. Sachs |
| Retail Price: |
$17.00 |
| Paperback: |
400 pages |
| Publisher: |
Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2009-02-24) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0143114875 / 9780143114871 |
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| Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer |
| Fred Kaplan |
| Retail Price: |
$27.95 |
| Hardcover: |
416 pages |
| Publisher: |
Harper – (2008-11-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0060773340 / 9780060773342 |
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Available from Brilliance Audio
- CD: $34.99; ISBN 9781423370994
- MP3 CD: $24.95; ISBN 9781423371014
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| The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope |
| Jonathan Alter |
| Retail Price: |
$16.00 |
| Paperback: |
432 pages |
| Publisher: |
Simon & Schuster – (2007-05-08) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0743246012 / 9780743246019 |
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Available from BBC Audiobooks America
- CD: $19.95; ISBN 9781572705531
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| Retail Price: |
$20.00 |
| Paperback: |
880 pages |
| Publisher: |
Random House Trade Paperbacks – (2008-05-13) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0812970497 / 9780812970494 |
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Available from Random House Audio
- CD: $34.95; ISBN 9780739343449
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| Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 |
| Steve Coll |
| Retail Price: |
$18.00 |
| Paperback: |
738 pages |
| Publisher: |
Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2004-12-28) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0143034669 / 9780143034667 |
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| Collected Poems, 1948-1984 |
| Derek Walcott |
| Retail Price: |
$20.00 |
| Paperback: |
516 pages |
| Publisher: |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux – (1987-01-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0374520259 / 9780374520250 |
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| Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America |
| Thomas L. Friedman |
| Retail Price: |
$16.00 |
| Paperback: |
480 pages |
| Publisher: |
Picador – (2009-11-24) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0312428928 / 9780312428921 |
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Also available from BBC Audio:
- 17 CD’s $124.95; 9780792754756
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| Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age |
| Larry M. Bartels |
| Retail Price: |
$29.95 |
| Hardcover: |
328 pages |
| Publisher: |
Princeton University Press – (2008-04-07) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0691136637 / 9780691136639 |
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Available in large print paperback:
- $17.99; ISBN 9781594133350
And from MacMillan Audio
- CD: $59.95: ISBN 9781427204585
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| Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Retail Price: |
$21.00 |
| Paperback: |
944 pages |
| Publisher: |
Simon & Schuster – (2006-09-26) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0743270754 / 9780743270755 |
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Available from Simon & Schuster Audio
- CD: $39.95; ISBN 9780743539135
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| The Post-American World |
| Fareed Zakaria |
| Retail Price: |
$15.95 |
| Paperback: |
336 pages |
| Publisher: |
W.W. Norton & Co. – (2009-05-04) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
0393334805 / 9780393334807 |
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Available from Simon & Schuster Audio
- CD: $39.95; ISBN 9780743576857
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August 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Great list! The audiobook of What is the What by Dave Eggers is also available from BBC Audiobooks America.
17 CDs $39.95; 978-1-60283-262-6
http://www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/Trade/productdetails.cfm?PC=18512
And library editions of that and Hot, Flat and Crowded are also available:
http://www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/Library/productdetails.cfm?PC=15583
http://www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/Library/productdetails.cfm?PC=17055
Tara Gelsomino
Editorial Marketing Manager
BBC Audiobooks America