It’s the end of another year and that means we’re being treated to another look into the reading life of former President Barack Obama. Like previous years, it’s a diverse mix of titles and includes both fiction and nonfiction. This year includes a powerful graphic memoir as well.

Of little surprise, Obama’s first pick is one that might be pretty familiar to him: Michelle’s The Light We Carry.

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The rest of the titles on the list include:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of America by Imani Perry
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamin Chan
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Liberation Day by George Saunders
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Afterlifes by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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