Over the years we have come to anticipate President Obama’s reading lists and this year is no different.
Every year since his presidency his book recommendations have been insightful and inspiring and to mark the end of 2020, Obama gave us his latest book list.
Here are the books the former president thinks are some of the most important this year.
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