The Guests for Barack Obama’s Book Podcast Have Been Announced
Audible and Higher Ground have announced the anticipated guest lineup for A Great Book With Barack Obama. The guests for President Barack Obama’s six-part original book podcast hosted by our former Reader in Chief include the following “luminaries” in conversation about the books that have shaped his worldview and our society:
- Episode 1: Tom Hanks (Uncommon Type) on Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Episode 2: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) on The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Episode 3: Jill Lepore (These Truths: A History of the United States) on All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Episode 4: Ben Rhodes (The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House) on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- Episode 5: Percival Everett (James) on Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Episode 6: Lauren Groff (Florida) on All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
A Great Book with Barack Obama debuts on Audible September 24, 2026, and will be available on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcasts later this year.
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